Overview
- The district attorney confirmed a grand jury indicted Sheriff Danny Sanchez and four colleagues, and local reporting says five arrest warrants are now active for the group.
- Sanchez and former deputy Keith Schultz each face one count of abuse of a corpse and five counts of official misconduct tied to mishandled human remains found near San Luis.
- Investigators say bones were put in a paper grocery bag, left unsecured and unlabeled, and some teeth were lost before the coroner was notified, which violates standard evidence procedures under state law.
- In a separate case, Undersheriff Cruz Soto, Sgt. Caleb Sanchez, and Deputy Riley Roland were charged after taser use on a man in a mental health crisis left him with a broken rib and went unreported.
- All five are due in court April 1 as the DA’s wider probe continues and an earlier Colorado Bureau of Investigation evidence transfer highlights ongoing scrutiny of how the office handles cases.