Cases

The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office, in collaboration with the Salt Lake Police Department, arrested a 27-year-old man from South Carolina in connection with a series of car break-ins at local trailheads between December 2024 and February 2025. On December 7, 2024, Deputies respo...

GRAND JUNCTION, CO - On February 8, 2025, at approximately 1:50 a.m., Deputies with the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office heard multiple gunshots in the 2900 block of North Avenue. At the same time, a citizen called Dispatch to report hearing multiple gunshots in the same area. Res...

CLIFTON, CO - On Feburary 4, 2025, at approximately 4:00 p.m., Deputies with the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office responded to reports of a male and female, both wearing masks, threatening a resident with a bat and a gun on the 500 block of Autumn Breeze Drive in Clifton, Colorado...

UPDATE 2/3/2025: The Mesa County Sheriff's Office has identified the male arrested in connection with the February 2, 2025 Glade Park Homicide as Zeth Phillips, age 30, of Grand Junction, Colorado. Phillips is currently being held at the Mesa County Detention Facility on ...

Update:  January 24, 2025 The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office is releasing the following information on behalf of the 21st Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team. The Mesa County Coroner's Office has completed its examination regarding the death on January&nb...

The Mesa County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help to identify the suspects believed to be involved in a string of Theft from Autos and the use of stolen credit cards. On Friday, November 15, 2024, an unknown subject entered six vehicles parked at the Liberty Cap...

UPDATE:  Mr. Hacker has returned home and is safe. The Mesa County Sheriff's Office is asking for the public's help to locate a missing adult male. Larry Hacker, 49, was last seen Friday, November 2, 2024, around 4:30 a.m. He was last seen at his residence on the 400 bloc...

The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help in identifying possible witnesses to several assaults.  Between the hours of midnight and 2:00 am on September 29, 2024, three people were assaulted at a party in the desert near 25 and J Roads.  The th...

Two people were arrested following a traffic stop on Tuesday, October 15, 2024.  An Investigator with the Western Colorado Drug Task Force conducted a traffic stop on a vehicle after it pulled into a gas station in Fruita following a traffic violation. The subsequent inve...

The Mesa County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help to locate a missing person. Gregory Whitney was last seen in mid-February. His last known location was a home in the 3200 block of D ¾ Road in Clifton. Gregory is described as a 59-year-old white male, 190 lbs., ...