Protecting your property when gone

CHAFFEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Salida, Colorado PRESS RELEASE January 30, 2024 Over the past several months the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office has taken reports of burglaries to unoccupied residences where the persons living there were either out of town for the...

Search ends in drug charges

CHAFFEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICESalida, Colorado  PRESS RELEASE  January 25, 2024  On Wednesday, January 25, 2024, members of the Chaffee County Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office and the Buena Vista Police Department received information of an individual who was in...

Suzanne Morphew remains found

NEWS RELEASE Remains positively identified as Suzanne Morphew September 27, 2023– CBI – Lakewood, CO – Agents with the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) located human remains during the course of a search on September 22, 2023. Those remains were...

Arrest clears two prior cases

CHAFFEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Salida, Colorado PRESS RELEASE August 28, 2023 On August 7, 2023 the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office arrested Johnathan Edward Lee for several counts of Burglary and Possession of a Controlled Substance after investigating a break in at...

Poncha Springs Resident arrested

CHAFFEE COUNTY SHERIFF’S OFFICE Salida, Colorado PRESS RELEASE August 28, 2023 Over the past month investigators have been investigating a complaint of sexual assault on a child. On August 23, 2023 the Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office arrested Ernest Dale Himebaugh,...