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Teller County, CO, July 27, 2020– Late last night, members of the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office, acting upon information given to them by TCSO, located the suspect in the Teller County animal abuse case that has garnered nearly a million views on Facebook after the publics help was requested in locating him. Matthew Stephen Dieringer was located at the Days Inn Motel at Clinton & Geddes and was taken into custody on the Teller County warrant for two counts of Aggravated An

Teller County, CO, July 20, 2020– Teller County Animal Control Officers and detectives are investigating a felony animal abuse case where the suspect, Matthew Stephen Dieringer, aged 30 years old from Pueblo, is accused of killing two of his roommate’s dogs. Dieringer is alleged to have beaten to death the victim’s brown, seven year-old Australian Cattle Dog “Suka” and also to have killed and dismembered the victim’s other black dog, “Hayoka.” A necropsy confirmed Suka died o

Teller County, CO, July 20, 2020– On Friday July 17, 2020 the Teller County Sheriff’s Office (TCSO) released information to the public concerning a “car rally” protest that would occur at our Detention Facility that day. The protest was apparently organized by a relative of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) inmate who is detained at the facility and it was advertised to be against Teller County’s agreement to house ICE inmates. TCSO learned that the protesters were

Teller County, CO, July 17, 2020– The Teller County Sheriff’s Office has been advised there will be a protest in front of the Teller County Detention Facility in Divide, CO. The protesters, who identify themselves as “activists and supporters,” will rally cars at the Woodland Park Cultural Center, 210 E Midland Avenue today at 5:30pm and then drive to the detention facility located in Divide. The address of the Teller County Detention Facility is 288 Weaverville Road, Divide,

Teller County, CO, July 8, 2020– Last week, Teller County Narcotics Detectives (TNT) began to receive information from several different sources that there was an illegal marijuana grow at 3544 CR 5, just north of Divide, CO in Teller County jurisdiction. Upon further investigation, it was learned there was another address associated with this operation located east of Trinidad, CO in Las Animas County. TNT, with assistance from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) bega

Teller County, CO, July 7, 2020– On June 18, 2020, Teller County Detectives received information there was a sexual assault victim at a hospital in Colorado Springs. The female victim revealed that she had met the suspect, Brent Stein, on a dating website and that the suspect had made promises to heal her medical conditions and that he was a pharmacist with Mountain Key Pharmacy in Florissant, CO. Over the course of a few days, Stein lured the woman from Indiana to his reside