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Last month, the Montezuma County Board of Commissioners voted to cut 10 positions from the Sheriff’s Office. In response, employees have petitioned the state of Colorado to begin the process of collective bargaining in the new year. Allen Phelps is a detective at the Montezuma County Sheriff’s Office and the president of Mesa Verde Lodge 74 Fraternal Order of Police. Without proper staffing levels, Phelps says the office is unable to adequately deal with the number of homicides, sexual assaults and property crimes that occur in the county. Phelps says 70 of 72 employees at the office signed petitions in favor of collective bargaining, which will now initiate a ballot election. And a plane crash in a forest north of Dolores resulted in two deaths this past weekend.
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A Montezuma-Cortez School District RE-1 Board meeting was cut short Tuesday night after several people connected via Zoom heckled and made a threat toward…
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Montezuma County sheriff’s deputy Donnie Brown is being sued for damages stemming from a 2018 accident while on mounted patrol.Gov. Jared Polis is urging…
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A Cortez couple has filed a civil complaint against Montezuma County sheriff’s deputy Donnie Mack Brown, seeking relief from damages stemming from a horse…
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Montezuma County sheriff’s deputy Donnie Brown has been suspended without pay after he was charged with domestic violence harassment.Republican Colorado…
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A Montezuma County deputy allegedly made inappropriate remarks about school safety during a visit assessing security measures at Dolores Elementary School…
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Two more brush fires have reportedly been deliberately set in Montezuma County since the sheriff’s office announced early in May that five had been set in…
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With dry, windy weather in the Four Corners, fire season has started early this year. Montezuma County Sheriff Steve Nowlin joined KSJD's Austin Cope to…
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The body of a local man who went missing in March of last year has been found in a remote part of Montezuma County. Sheriff Steve Nowlin tells KSJD that…
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A charge of first-degree murder has been filed against a Montezuma County man accused of killing a 42-year-old member of the Southern Ute Tribe. The…