10/18/2026
Colfax County Sheriff's Office Hosts Field Investigator Training in Raton
RATON, N.M. - From October 13 through October 16, 2026, the Colfax County Sheriff's Office hosted members of the Albuquerque Police Department's Major Crime Scene Team in Raton for a Field Investigator training course.
The course came out of a three-year collaborated effort between the Colfax County Sheriff's Office and the Albuquerque Police Department to bring specialized crime scene training to northeastern New Mexico and to share this training and resources with other regional agencies.
Deputies and Detectives from the Colfax County Sheriff's Office, Union County Sheriff's Office, McKinley County Sheriff's Office, and the Española Police Department attended the course.
The Sheriff's Office thanks everyone who helped make the training happen. This includes APD Career Development Manager Chelsea Smith, Major Crime Scene Team Detective Aaron Brown and Crime Scene Specialist Supervisor Loren Higgins a well as the New Mexico Department of Public Safety Forensic Laboratory Bureau for providing in-person instruction during the course. We also want to thank the Eight Judicial District Attorney’s Office for their support and Raton Crime Stoppers for their continued support of law enforcement and crime reduction in our area by assisting with brining this training to Raton.
We are also grateful to APD's leadership, who helped bring this together and have been willing to work with small and rural agencies like ours so we can keep investing in our communities.
Training of this kind is hard to come by in rural New Mexico, and we are proud to have hosted it in Colfax County and share it with our neighboring agencies. The deputies and detectives who completed the course will bring what they learned back to the communities they serve.
