Albany County Sheriff

A rescue on Medicine Bow Peak Trail

The entrance to the Buttes subdivision south of Laramie is closed due to flooding, the Albany County Sheriff's Department said.

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On Sunday, April 21, deputies with the Albany County Sheriff’s Office were dispatched to a report of a dead body located near Blair Wallis Road in the Medicine Bow National Forest between Laramie and Cheyenne.

Steinhoff was charged with felony theft and felony conspiracy to commit theft.

An Albany County Sheriff’s deputy learned from a confidential source that Williams possessed meth at her home and that she stored the meth in in places that were accessible to the child, specifically in clothing hanging in reach of the child or in shoes on the floor.

Sheriff David O’Malley said the hope is that access to naloxone will reduce drug-related deaths in Albany county.

“What most people don’t understand is this not only affects the deputy, which it will for the rest of their lives, but it affects their families,” says DeBree.

The Albany County Sheriff’s Office and the U.S. Forest Service are looking at closing the old Happy Jack ski area after deputies responded to two sledding accidents – including one that killed an 8-year-old boy – earlier this week...

All four deputies who were at the scene of the fatal officer-involved shooting at Snowy Range Ski Area Dec. 6 have returned to duty, according to Albany County Sheriff Dave O’Malley. The four deputies – Matt Donnell, Edward Rosier, Aaron Gallegos, and Adam Dean – were placed on administrative leave pending the result of the investigation per office policy...

A wanted man was captured in Rock River on Oct. 18.  The Albany County Sheriff's Office worked as part of a task force that included the U.S. Marshals Service to apprehend the fugitive. Jothan Laher, 44, was taken into custody and transported to the Albany County Detention Center...