The Buena Vista Police Department reported the following activity for July 2021.

In what local contractor John Crum has come to call the Great Trailer Debacle, he was charged and fined for 20 of 24 code violations stemming from a single incident in early April.

Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center was placed on lockdown for about one hour starting at 9 a.m. Wednesday.

Salida Police Chief Russ Johnson said police received a call that an individual in the Buena Vista area was at the BV clinic trying to get a letter telling his employer he was fit to return to work.

The Buena Vista Police Department reported the following for the months of April and May, 2021.

The Buena Vista Police Department reported the following for March 2021...

Since the 2020 election, Chaffee County has received two requests to review its election video files, but has not yet been able to provide those files. After a broken machine prevented viewing of the files, the county has been unable to release any of the video recordings, which the Colorado Secretary of State’s Office requires every county to have.

Here’s what’s in store for next week’s board of trustees meeting.

The Chaffee County Fire Protection District coordinated with the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control to host a training event for 30 firefighters from the southern region of Colorado at BVHS.

The Chaffee County Fire Protection District coordinated with the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control to host a training event for 30 firefighters from the southern region of Colorado at BVHS.

The Buena Vista board of trustees last Monday, then the Chaffee County Fire Protection District board of directors on the following Wednesday voted to approve an intergovernmental agreement between the two entities that makes CCFPD “the exclusive jurisdiction having authority to interpret and enforce the fire code adopted by the town within the town’s boundaries.”

The Buena Vista board of trustees approved an intergovernmental agreement between the town and Chaffee County Fire Protection District, which if approved by the CCFPD board at its meeting Wednesday evening, would make Chaffee Fire “the exclusive jurisdiction having authority to interpret and enforce the fire code adopted by the town within the town’s boundaries.”

The Buena Vista Police Department reported the following for February:

A bill sponsored by state Sen. Kerry Donovan and Rep. Dylan Roberts of Avon that would allow the state of Colorado to hire back former members of the State Wildland Inmate Fire Team moved through the legislative process of the Colorado General Assembly with broad support.

The same man who crashed in an alfalfa field near Salida in 2019, is dead after the plane he was flying Saturday crashed in a rugged area northwest of Deckers.

One of the three persons charged with taking a vehicle at gunpoint in April in Chaffee County was sentenced Friday to serve 7 years in federal prison.

A pair of visitors exploring the St. Elmo town site recently entered the porch of one of the buildings in the ghost town, tried to open both locked doors and seemed disappointed they couldn’t explore the inside of the cabin.

The Buena Vista Police Department released the following reports for Novemeber and December, 2020:

Lake County Coroner Shannon Kent and deputy coroner Staci Kent were arrested Feb. 18 after law enforcement agents found improperly stored human remains at what had been the couple’s Silverthorne funeral home.

Gary Labor, who was charged in connection with the July 14, 2018 death of Matthew Massaro at Buena Vista Correctional Complex, pleaded guilty to one count of possession of contraband in the first degree, a Class 4 felony, Feb. 10 in 11th Judicial District court.

Dale Robert Enck, the Buena Vista Attorney who was arrested last year on charges including theft from an at-risk victim, pled guilty to that charge in October.

A series of investigations that began in December culminated in the arrest of numerous people involved in the distribution of drugs including heroin and methamphetamine, Buena Vista Police Department Chief Dean Morgan said Wednesday.

A fatal shooting at Mt. Massive Townhomes left one Leadville resident dead and another in custody after law enforcement responded to a call from the apartment complex Jan. 12.

Yolanda LaCome, 34, of Leadville was found at the scene and later died of injuries sustained in the shooting, according to a release issued by the Leadville Police Department.

Chaffee County’s new County Judge Diana C. Bull, could say the law is the family business.

A Pueblo woman faces local charges of first degree assault of a police officer, felony vehicular eluding, driving under restraint and other possible criminal charges following a pursuit that ranged through three counties.

Krystin Schletter, 35, of Pueblo, was taken into custody Thursday in the San Luis Valley after pursuits in Fremont and Chaffee counties were discontinued.

A search for a missing 11-year-old boy along the banks of the Arkansas River east of Buena Vista yesterday afternoon ended when a hiker spotted the boy walking safely along the river.

The Colorado State Patrol is investigating a fatal crash that occurred shortly before midnight Wednesday evening on U.S. 24 approximately 2.5 miles east of Johnson Village, according to a press release issued Thursday morning.

One Buena Vista Correctional Complex inmate is dead of COVID-19, Colorado Department of Corrections public information officer Annie Skinner confirmed Monday.

The Buena Vista Police Department reported the following for October, 2020:

A dozen kids from Salida and Buena Vista got to spend time with a local law enforcement agent on Saturday.

Charges were filed by deputy district attorney Brian Andris Wednesday in 11th Judicial District Court against Isaiah Garcia, 21, of Moffat and Taylor Mossman, 21 of Homer related to a burglary and subsequent armed stand off with law enforcement Nov. 17 in Poncha Springs.

The Buena Vista Police Department reported the following:

The Buena Vista Municipal Court reported the following activity:

After serving on the Buena Vista Fire Department since 2001, first as a volunteer and eventually as the town’s first full-time paid fire chief, Dixon Villers retired last week.

World Kindness Day was Friday, Nov. 13, and inmates at the Buena Vista Correctional Complex celebrated with a neighborly gift to patients at UCHealth hospitals in northern Colorado.

Buena Vista school district buildings went into secure mode Tuesday afternoon after being advised by the Buena Vista Police Department of a vehicle pursuit on U.S. Highway 24.

A Colorado Parks and Wildlife search team's two-day recovery effort came to an end midday Monday when divers from Pueblo County Search and Rescue recovered a body in the water at Clear Creek Reservoir.