This is a private reference site, not a Colfax County government office. We cannot confirm whether someone is in custody, release a detainee, post bond, schedule a visit, accept money, or pull official booking records. Use the official offices below for those tasks.
Official Places to Start
Colfax County does not publish an official public jail roster in the research materials reviewed for this project. For a new arrest or current county custody question, start with the Vigil-Maldonado Detention Center. For sheriff records or arrest-agency direction, use the Colfax County Sheriff's Office. Court charges and bond information belong with the Colfax County district or magistrate court handling the case.
Vigil-Maldonado Detention Center
444 Hereford Street
Raton, NM 87740
Phone: (575) 445-3691
Fax: (575) 445-3692
Public office hours: Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m.
Use this contact for current county custody questions, visitation questions, mail or money rules, property questions, and detention-center records direction.
Colfax County Sheriff's Office
Sheriff Leonard M. Baca
1413 South 2nd Street
Raton, NM 87740
Phone: (575) 445-5561
Fax: (575) 445-2988
The sheriff's office is the countywide law-enforcement contact for sheriff reports, arrest-agency referrals, sex-offender registration appointments, and detention-related criminal investigation referrals.
Colfax County Clerk
333 Savage Ave
Raton, NM 87740
Phone: (575) 445-5551
Office hours: Monday-Thursday, 7 a.m.-5:30 p.m.; closed Fridays
The clerk is a public-records contact for clerk-held records. Law-enforcement booking records should be requested from the agency that maintains them, not assumed to be clerk records.
Colfax County Courts
Colfax County Courthouse: 1413 S. Second St., Raton, NM 87740, (575) 445-5584
Raton Magistrate Court: 1413 South Second Street, Raton, (575) 445-2220
Springer Magistrate Court: 15 Airport Road SW, Springer, (575) 483-2417
The Eighth Judicial District site lists the Colfax County courthouse hours as Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. Use the courts for case numbers, court dates, filed charges, bond conditions, warrants tied to a case, and document-access questions.
Eighth Judicial District Attorney
District Attorney Marcus J. Montoya
Colfax office: 220 4th Avenue
Raton, NM 87440
Phone: (575) 445-5516
Fax: (575) 445-0737
The district attorney prosecutes state criminal cases for Colfax, Taos, and Union counties. Contact the DA office for prosecution-related public information or victim-service direction, not for jail release decisions.
Choose the office by the type of record or custody status:
- For someone who may be in the county jail, begin with jail inmate records and the VMDC phone number.
- For a booking photo question, read the jail roster mugshots page and ask the correct records custodian whether an IPRA request is required.
- For charges filed after arrest, use court records after a jail arrest and the appropriate Colfax court.
- For a specific detention location, use the facility pages listed in the footer.
- For a sentenced New Mexico state prisoner, use the New Mexico Corrections Department offender search and facility contacts.
- For federal prison or immigration detention, use the Bureau of Prisons locator or ICE Online Detainee Locator System.