Jumisko returns to court after missed hearing in fatal I-25 crash case

Inka Jumisko was back in custody at the Las Animas County Courthouse on Wednesday, April 22, after missing a prior court date in the fatal Interstate 25 crash case that has kept Las Animas County watching every step of the proceedings.

Her failure to appear led to a bench warrant, sending the case back into a sharper phase of enforcement before the Las Animas County Combined Court. The hearing put Jumisko, who is from Albuquerque, New Mexico, back in front of the court as the prosecution continues to work through a case tied to a death on one of the county’s busiest travel corridors.

The case began just after midnight on May 13, 2025, when Trinidad police responded to a single-vehicle RV crash on southbound I-25 near milepost 12 south of Trinidad. Officers arrested Jumisko, then 28, on suspicion of felony vehicular homicide and misdemeanor driving under the influence of alcohol, drugs or both. A juvenile passenger in the RV died at the scene.

That charge carries serious weight in Colorado. Vehicular homicide is a class 3 felony when it involves driving under the influence, a level of offense that places the case among the most severe traffic-related criminal prosecutions handled in the local courts. The missed hearing did not erase any of that; it only delayed the pace and added another layer of uncertainty for the family of the juvenile killed in the crash.

The latest court appearance shows the case remains active and unresolved in Las Animas County District Court, part of Colorado’s 3rd Judicial District. The courthouse handling the matter is at 200 E. 1st St., Room 304 in Trinidad, where county court civil return dates are held Monday through Friday at 10:30 a.m.

For a rural county where I-25 is a critical corridor, the case has become a reminder that fatal crashes on the interstate do not stay abstract for long. They move into court, demand repeated hearings, and test local confidence that serious charges are being enforced even after a defendant misses an appearance. Jumisko’s return to custody keeps the case moving through pretrial review, with the crash, the death, and the unanswered questions still at its center.