Dual arrests of Colorado sheriff leave 1,800-square-mile county with two deputies — and the coroner filling in as top cop

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Dual arrests of Colorado sheriff leave 1,800-square-mile county with two deputies — and the coroner filling in as top cop

5 November

The coroner is now the top law enforcement official in Cheyenne County thanks to a 144-year-old Colorado law that elevated him to the position after the sitting sheriff was arrested on a domestic violence charge then arrested again for asking his deputies to check on the alleged victim in the case. After the recent departure of the undersheriff, two relatively new deputies were left to patrol the county’s 1,800 square miles near the Kansas border, an area that’s home to about 1,750 people. One deputy, who is serving as acting undersheriff, became a certified Colorado law enforcement officer in 2017 ...

https://www.denverpost.com/2021/11/05/colorado-sheriff-coroner-cheyenne-county-jeff-miller/