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Families search for deceased loved ones as CBI investigates coroner

The CBI confirms it is investigating allegations that coroner Dominic Verquer has buried homeless people in rural unmarked mass graves and pocketed the state burial assistance funding.

Southern Colorado deputy charged in fight with a teen, already under investigation for separate incident

Las Animas sheriff suspends lieutenant without pay amid investigations into tasing, road rage fights

The move is the latest administrative action against the lieutenant, who was already on paid leave prior to the June 18 road rage incident.

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Wukela Communications(TRINIDAD, Colo.)  A Colorado man involved in an altercation with two Las Animas County police officers filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday morning stating that he was “violently and without justification assaulted” at a traffic stop last November. According to the man’s attorney and the civil complaint, Kenneth Espinoza was shocked 35 times with a Taser with stuns to the body and even some to the face, but the sheriff s department disagrees, saying that he was only shocked once. “The statement that there was one Taser deployed is just preposterous,” Espinoza’s attorney Kevin Mehr said during Tuesday’s press conference. According to the sheriff s department, data obtained from Lt. Henry Trujillo’s and Deputy Mikhail Noel’s Tasers show that Espinoza was only shocked once. But Mehr claimed that there is a mode on Tasers called drive-stun mode that he believes was used during the incident based on the body camera footage. According to the complaint