Garfield County Sheriff

Voces Unidas, a West Slope Latino advocacy group, recently published findings related to the disappearance of Garfield County residents and contact with Garfield County Sheriff’s Deputies. The group is asking the Colorado Attorney General to intervene. KDNK’s Lily Jones has more on what the group believes is a potentially illegal collaboration between federal and local law enforcement.

Garfield County law enforcement officials could be on the hot seat for using official government email accounts to exchange derogatory comments about State Rep. Elizabeth Velasco, Alex Sánchez of Voces Unidas and the local Latino community.

In late July the City of Glenwood Springs hosted a virtual town hall webinar on homelessness. The meeting came about a month after a fire broke out in a rugged gully northeast of Walmart, causing a nearby apartment building to be evacuated. Although the fire lasted less than a day and reached only one and a half acres in size, its proximity to the town and likely origin in a homeless camp caught officials’ attention. The panel included Glenwood’s Chief of Public Safety, Fire Marshall, Parks and Recreation director, the District Attorney and Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario.KDNK reporters Lily Jones and Amy Hadden Marsh and News Director Marilyn Gleason all attended the Zoom meeting separately. In Part 2 of our reporter's roundtable, Amy Hadden Marsh digs into the private property inhabited by the unhoused at the Palmer Fire, and Marilyn Gleason remarks on law enforcement's 'revolving door.'

One in three women and one in four men will experience physical violence from an intimate partner at some point in their life, according to the CDC. In Colorado it's roughly 36% and 30% respectively. Conversations around, and responses to intimate partner crime are often full of inaccuracies and misunderstandings. In the light of a wife and husband's apparent murder-suicide in Grass Mesa KDNK spoke with Advocate Safehouse about the cycle of violence, and how to talk about it.

Garfield County Sheriffs are asking the state agency to investigate the deaths of two people near Rifle. Local law enforcement are concerned with removing any conflict of interest due to the couple's history of domestic violence reports.

Updates on the incident with a heavily armed deceased body at the Glenwood Caverns Adventure Park from a press conference the Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario

Updates on a small brush fire in West Glenwood which caused evacuations

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