In response to an ultimatum issued to the county by Durango City Council ... to accept municipal offenders into the jail. One such statute is Colorado Revised Statute 30-10-515, which said ...

DURANGO, Colo (CBS4) - A large black bear ignored visiting hours this week at the La Plata County Jail. Before dawn on the 4th of July, the very independent bruin climbed the fencing on the jail's ...

DURANGO, Colo. (CBS4) - Sheriff's deputies said they exercised their right to "bear arms" during a recent jail break-in. The La Plata County Sheriff's Office posted about it to Twitter ...

COLORADO (KRQE) — La Plata County Jail is ending a 30-year agreement with the City of Durango, which allows them to send their inmates there. The city now has 30 days to negotiate new terms or ...

Jonah Barrett-Lesko, 25, was captured by police in the Animas River in Durango about 25 minutes after he escaped from the La Plata County Jail, police told the Durango Herald. He was first ...

A suspect was arrested after police said a deputy was attacked in southwestern ... according to the Durango Police Department.Lindt was booked into the La Plata County Jail, and DPD is leading ...

Valenzuela was arrested Saturday and taken to the La Plata County jail, investigators ... dead in the area of Colorado State Highway 550 and County Road 310, south of Durango, on Saturday.

In conservative, rural western Colorado, Mesa County reported 212 jail voters last year ... and possibly in April, too, for Durango’s mayoral election. It’s the right thing to do, she said ...