5 former Costilla County sheriff employees told me that they received scant training for the job.
Many deputies never completed reports after crimes, they said.
Evidence in a murder case went missing.
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The mishandling of criminal cases has been a common occurrence in Costilla County for years, prosecutors and former employees say. So they weren’t entirely surprised when the San Luis Valley DA announ...