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Huerfano County coroner reports 98 deaths in past year; fentanyl present in all overdoses
Summary
Coroner Bonnie Valdez told the Huerfano County Board of County Commissioners that her office handled 98 deaths in the past year, including 45 scene investigations and 19 autopsies; she reported seven suicides, eight accidental deaths and five drug overdoses in which fentanyl was present.
Bonnie Valdez, Huerfano County coroner, told the Board of County Commissioners on July 5 that the coroner’s office recorded 98 deaths in the county over the past year and conducted scene investigations in 45 of those cases.
Valdez said 19 of the investigated deaths required autopsy and that the office sent autopsy cases to the El Paso County coroner’s office for forensic pathology and toxicology. “The coroner’s office is a state statute mandated position,” Valdez said, describing the office’s duties to determine and certify cause and manner of death, notify next of kin and…
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