RBC | The Colorado Court of Appeals has ruled that the Rio Blanco County Sheriff’s Office can be held civilly liable for the death by suicide of Catherine Rowell in 2016 while Rowell was held in the Rio Blanco County Detention Center.
Rowell was arrested in Rangely on Feb. 12, 2016, for allegedly violating a protection order that prohibited her from contacting her husband, Gary Heidel. The protection order stemmed from an August 2015 case…