Las Animas County at a glance


Population by race and Hispanic origin

Full-time law enforcement staff, Las Animas County Sheriff's Office

  • 9 Officers
  • 16 Civilian staff

Full-time law enforcement officers per 1,000 residents

  • 4.19 Las Animas County
  • 2.2 National average

Federal grant funding for Las Animas County


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Military equipment transfers


We were unable to locate any military equipment transfers for this location using the LESO Property Transferred to Participating Agencies database published by the Defense Logistics Agency. It is possible that this location has acquired military equipment for policing via other sources or programs.

Local police misconduct data, consent decrees, and settlements

Data last updated December 9, 2025


Settlements

We identified 1 publicly reported settlement that resulted in $1,500,000.00 in monetary compensation to victims.

Settlements
Year Description Outcome
2024

In March 2024, the Sheriff’s Office of Las Animas County, Colorado, settled a lawsuit with a seventy-one-year-old man named Kenneth Espinoza for $1.5 million.

Espinoza filed the lawsuit against former Las Animas Sheriff's Lieutenant Henry Trujillo, former Deputy Mikhail Noel, Undersheriff Rey Santistevan, Sheriff Derek Navarette, the Las Animas County Sheriff’s Office, and the Las Animas County Board of County Commissioners. In November 2022, Espinoza was driving a separate vehicle when officers pulled over his son. Espinoza alleged that after he stopped his own vehicle and was trying to comply with the deputies’ instructions, Noel and Trujillo detained and assaulted him without justification in front of his son, including stunning Espinoza thirty-five times with a Taser. The Sheriff’s Office fired Noel and Trujillo in September 2023 over their roles in the incident.

Compensation
$1,500,000.00