Over the last several months, 13 Investigates has been compiling documents that reveal a former deputy was actively bringing heroin and Percocet pills into the Pueblo County Jail and giving them to inmates. Inmates were testing positive for heroin in the days after this activity was uncovered.
The Pueblo West Women’s League, a service organization that supports Pueblo West’s various community efforts, recently donated a sculpture to the community that is meant to honor the community’s first responders.
The sculpture, coined ‘Every Day Responders’ is the seventh piece of artwork that the league has donated to the community as a part of the Let’s stART campaign that league president, Barb Murfit started in 2011.
Murfit said the first six pieces are representative of plants and animals native to the area but the newest piece, which went up this month, is a tribute piece.
“The first one was flowers on the prairie, then we have geodes, an eagle that soars, tortoises and a fish sculpture,” Murfit said. “Then the committee and I decided for number seven, we should include some people.