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Alamosa Daily Digest Friday, September 25, 2026

Ty's Take

Thirteen arrests in a narcotics operation might sound like a big number until you realize how small a valley really is, and how far the tentacles of this stuff reach when you start pulling the thread. The Alamosa County Sheriff's Office and their partners didn't wake up one morning and decide to sweep the streets, which means someone tipped them off, someone talked, someone finally got tired of watching it happen. What troubles most people around here isn't just that the drugs are here, because they are everywhere now, even in places like this where everybody knows everybody. It's the machinery behind it all, the networks that run through our schools and our ranches and our neighborhoods, quiet until they're not. That takes time to build a case solid enough to arrest thirteen people at once. That takes patience and work nobody sees until the morning the warrants execute.

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Law enforcement arrests 13 in suspected narcotics ring

Law enforcement from 11 agencies arrested 13 suspects Wednesday after months of investigation into a drug distribution network operating across the San Luis Valley in Alamosa and Conejos counties. Officers executed 10 search warrants in Alamosa, Sanford, Antonito, and the Bountiful areas, with...

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