All Entries Tagged With: "Prowers County Sheriff’s Office"
Prowers County Sheriff’s March 2013 Report
The Prowers County Sheriff’s Office received 271 calls for service for March, 2013. Lamar placed 144 calls, followed by 88 from the county and 26 from Holly. Fifty of the Lamar calls were jail related and 23 were for warrant arrests. Lamar also had 30 calls for serving papers and restraining orders. Traffic accidents […]
Prowers County Sheriff Report, February 2013
The Prowers County Sheriff’s Office responded to 272 calls for service this past February, 2013. Lamar posted 155 calls, followed by 81 from the County, 37 from Holly and 15 from Wiley. Sixty of the Lamar calls were jail-related with eight warrant arrests noted, two for drugs and one for theft. The County had 24 […]
Warrant Issued for Lamar Police Commander – Updated as of 9/26/12
Prowers County Sheriff’s Office Media Release On September 10, 2012 Prowers County Sheriff’s Deputies were called to a Wiley residence on a report of a theft. The home owner reported the theft of a water softener, valued at $1,050.00, from a home that was rented to Lamar Police Commander Edward David Herrera and his wife, […]
Teen Center Friday Activities Planned for Lincoln School
How to fill free time this year for Lamar’s younger school students was discussed by various community representatives meeting at the Project HOPE Teen Center, Monday, July 16. The new Lamar District school year begins on August 16, and will mark the start of a four day school week for students. Citizens, parents, educators […]
Municipal Holiday Fireworks Displays Cancelled
Prowers County Sheriff’s Office June 27, 2012 Fire Works Ban Due to the high fire danger Prowers County has been added to the “Red Flag” counties. I have consulted with Fire Chiefs Warn, Cook and Duffy on the fire dangers posed by public fireworks display. I have come to the conclusion that the fire danger […]
Lightning Strike Blasts Pile of Tires South of Lamar
Zeus used to smite his enemies with a well-thrown lightning bolt. What are the odds that a lightning strike from a storm passing over miles of open plains in southeast Colorado would hit a pile of used tires in the middle of the prairie? Pretty good, actually! Staffon Warn, Prowers County Rural Fire Chief reported […]
Wiley Hosting Sheriff’s Meeting Regarding Sex Predator
The Prowers County Sheriff’s Office will hold a special community meeting in Wiley, Tuesday, June 12, 2012 at 7pm at the Wiley Community Building. The Sheriff’s Office will detail information regarding a person registered as a sexually violent predator who is moving from Lamar into the Wiley community. Thirty-two year old Rodger A. Aldridge was […]
Out of Gas, Pilot Lands Safely on County Road FF
The pilot of a single engine airplane thought he had enough fuel to make it to the Lamar Airport for a fill-up on Wednesday, May 30, but was about a quart low and a few miles short of his goal. It was a safe landing and according to authorities, the pilot had intended to […]
Prowers County Sheriff’s Report, April 2012
The Prowers County Sheriff’s Office responded to 315 service calls this past April, 2012. Lamar posted 159, Holly had 37, Wiley had 10 calls for service and there were 100 calls in the county. Lamar’s breakdown has 40 jail related calls and 19 warrant arrests. Three calls were for DUI’s, two for drugs and three […]
Prowers County Sheriff Report, March, 2012
The Prowers County Sheriff’s Office responded to 295 calls for service for March, 2012. Lamar generated 153 calls, there were 25 for Holly, 15 in Wiley and 93 in the county at large. Fifty-seven of the Lamar calls were jail related and 20 resulted in warrant arrests. Holly reported four traffic accidents and related problems, […]
Prowers County Sheriff February 2012 Report
The Prowers County Sheriff’s Office responded to 301 calls for service this past February, with 158 from Lamar, 44 from Holly, 16 from Wiley and 76 from the county. Lamar reported seven DUI’s, eighteen warrant arrests, 49 jail related calls and four traffic accidents. There were five traffic accidents reported from Holly, one theft, two […]
Las Animas Man Charged in Prowers/Otero Counties
Press Release Prowers County Sheriff’s Office Detective John Parker received information that an Otero County Inmate being held in the Prowers County Jail for the charge of 1st Degree Murder made an attempt to have a witness in his crime murdered. Det. Parker obtained a statement from witnesses and obtained a warrant for Inmate David […]
Snow Removal Efforts Continue
The familiar center lane of snow in many of Lamar’s roadways is being shoveled up and hauled off. With snow removal, first comes first. Get it scraped off the main roads and snow emergency routes and then deal with the secondary streets. Once that’s underway, the removal process begins. Crews were out on west Oak […]
Prowers County Sheriff’s Report, November 2011
The Prowers County Sheriff’s Department made 300 service calls for November, 2011. Of those, 146 calls were in Lamar, 27 in Holly, Wiley had 14 and there were 109 calls made in the County. Forty-three calls in Lamar were jail related and 19 warrant arrests were issues. There were two calls for fraud or forgery […]
Internet Phishing Scam Attempt
The Prowers County Sheriff’s Office recently reported an attempt to secure information with an email, “allegedly from the Federal Reserve. It says a wire transfer did not go thru. It has a ‘click here’ link that I did not click. It also says the email was sent from the Federal Reserve and gives the correct web site […]
August 2011 Report from the Prowers County Sheriff’s Office
The Prowers County Sheriff’s Office responded to 340 calls for the month of August, 2011. Of those, 156 calls for service were from Lamar and 122 were from the county. Holly had 32 service calls and Wiley had 21 calls for service. There were 40 jail related calls for Lamar and 15 were for warrant […]
Phone Scams in Prowers County
Press Release: Prowers County Sheriff’s Office The Prowers County Sheriff’s Office has received numerous calls from people that say they are receiving telephone calls from their grandchildren who claim to be in jail or in the hospital and are asking grandparents to send them money. Please be aware that this is probably a scam. Ask […]
July 2011, Prowers County Sheriff Report
The Prowers County Sheriff’s Office responded to 334 calls for service in July 2011. Lamar led all other towns in the county with 133 calls, followed by 36 in Holly and 23 in Wiley. Of the Lamar calls, 39 were jail related and 11 for warrant arrests. There were no calls in those categories for […]
Sheriff’s Department Now at Full Strength
Two new officers were sworn in on the steps of the Prowers County Sheriff’s Department Monday morning, August 16, by Sheriff Jim Faull. Brad Bardessona will be employed as a Detention officer and Therisa Foor, who was a former CSP trooper in this region, will become a County Patrol Deputy. Faull said this is the […]
Graduations and Promotions for Prowers County Sheriff’s Staff
A casual ceremony for members of the Sheriff’s department highlighted some promotions and graduations this past Friday afternoon, July 15. Prowers County Sheriff Jim Faull conferred promotions to Rick McCorkle to the rank of Sergeant and Carolina Fisher to Corporal. He said, “This was the first time in his memory that two officers […]