ARRESTS
A 47-year-old male was arrested on 3/1/2024 on a Rio Blanco County felony warrant. He bonded on 3/2/2024 through a bondsman.
CALL SUMMARIES
2/25/2024 @ 4:28 am. A report of a suspicious vehicle came into the Communications Center. The vehicle was parked by the restrooms at the Trail & Hitch on County Road 8 with all of the doors open and nobody around. A deputy responded and was eventually able to get ahold of the vehicle owner. There had been a mouse in the vehicle and the vehicle owner was attempting to air it out.
2/25/2024 @ 5:54 pm. A traffic complaint was reported southbound on Highway 13 from the 84 mile-marker. The RP said the vehicle was at varying speeds and unable to maintain their lane. A deputy was able to find the vehicle and followed it for some time and decided the vehicle was not violating any traffic rules.
2/27/2024 @ 4:03 pm. A two-vehicle accident occurred at the intersection of 7th & Garfield St. Two parties were injured and transported by EMS
2/27/2024 @ 6:37 pm. A party met a deputy at the impound lot to retrieve his vehicle after an investigation, a few hours later @ 9:52 pm. The same vehicle caught fire in the parking lot of a hotel in Meeker. Meeker Volunteer Fire Dept. responded. No injuries were reported.
2/29/2024 @ 5:11 pm. Meeker PD got a report that some juveniles were in an abandoned house. Upon investigation, the juveniles were just looking for a place to “hang out.”
3/1/2024 @ 11:58 am. Rio Blanco County deputies arrested a 47-year-old male party on a Rio Blanco County warrant on County Road 102 for sexual assault on a child and sexual contact no consent.
3/2/2024 @ 2:52 pm. A boulder the “size of someone’s head” was reported to dispatch at the 24 mile-marker on Highway 64.
3/2/2024 The high winds wreaked havoc in Meeker causing a tree to fall on a power line and a phone line to go down.
