Las Animas County court issues warrant in fatal I-25 crash case

The Las Animas County court’s next move in a fatal Interstate 25 case now depends on finding Inka Jumisko. After Jumisko failed to appear for a scheduled review hearing at the Las Animas County Courthouse on Wednesday, April 1, the court issued a bench warrant and kept the case’s $45,000 cash-only bond in place.

Jumisko, 29, of Albuquerque, New Mexico, is charged with vehicular homicide involving alcohol or drugs, a class 3 felony under Colorado law. The bench warrant gives law enforcement authority to arrest her if she is encountered in Colorado or elsewhere, and the case cannot meaningfully move forward until she is returned to custody and brought back before the court.

The warrant adds another layer to a case that has already been tied to a deadly crash on southbound Interstate 25 near milepost 12 south of Trinidad. Trinidad police arrested Jumisko on May 13, 2025, after a single-vehicle RV crash just after midnight. A juvenile passenger was pronounced dead at the scene, turning the case into one of the county’s most closely watched criminal proceedings.

The fatal-crash affidavit filed in Las Animas County District Court says Jumisko told a responding officer she had been driving to Denver for a medical appointment when the crash happened. That account, along with the alcohol-or-drug allegation, places the case squarely under Colorado’s vehicular homicide statute, which treats the offense as a strict-liability class 3 felony when impaired driving is the proximate cause of a death.

In Colorado, a class 3 felony vehicular homicide conviction can carry a potential prison sentence of four to 12 years. That exposure helps explain why the hearing schedule, the bond, and now the warrant carry unusual weight for Las Animas County courts. The missed appearance does not end the prosecution, but it does slow the procedural path and shifts attention to whether deputies or other officers will locate Jumisko and return her to court.

For the victim’s family, the delay means more waiting in a case that has already stretched across many months. For the public, it is another test of whether the local justice system can keep a serious fatal-crash case moving even when a defendant does not appear as ordered.