Buena Vista Police Department produced the Every 15 Minutes program with the cooperation of Buena Vista High School staff and students. This event, involving volunteers from all law enforcement agencies in the county, the county court, district attorney, EMS, fire departments, and many others, is a dramatic, semi-theatrical event that graphically illustrates the human cost of tragedies [...]
At our community forums on drugs and alcohol in Chaffee County, several people suggested we create a tip line to receive anonymous information about illegal drugs, underage alcohol sales and use, and related issues. After a good deal of effort, the sheriff’s office has finally implemented the suggestion. A telephone line directly connected to a [...]
The following messages were included in our most recent newsletter that was sent to subscribers earlier this week. Chaffee County Build A Generation and the sheriff’s office will be holding a forum for parents, students and all interested community members on Tuesday, April 17th from 6:30pm to 8pm at the Buena Vista High School cafeteria. [...]
Below are extracts from a letter from our communications manager, Annette Stolba, published in the Mountain Mail. It contains information regarding cell phones and the ability to call 911 even when services have been cut. During the recent phone outage, some cell phones and other phones were not working due to a fiber optic line [...]
Late Friday evening, Chaffee County Sheriff’s deputies and Buena Vista police officers assisted officers from the Salida Police Department in the arrest of Jayson Andrew Corbin Jamison, 37, on a warrant from Indiana charging Jamison with violating parole. Jamison has a lengthy criminal history with arrests for illegal drug manufacturing for sale, dealing in illegal drugs, theft, [...]
Ten Chaffee County law enforcement officers, from the Buena Vista and Salida police departments, Colorado State Patrol, and the Sheriff’s Office, participated in this year’s annual Student Holiday Outing with Police (SHOP). For about three hours, lawmen accompanied fourth graders selected from Buena Vista and Salida schools as they shopped for Christmas gifts at local [...]
The following letter appeared in the December 14 edition of the Salida Mountain Mail newspaper. Editor: Allow me to respond to the Mail’s editorial urging that once again, for the third year straight, the county commissioners deny salary increases for County employees. While we well understand the commissioners’ dilemma and the difficult choices they face, [...]
