Rio Grande County Sheriff’s Deputy Barron Robinson is headed to trial in April for a domestic violence charge. He is still employed with the sheriff’s office and is on paid administrative leave.
Court records obtained by Alamosa Citizen show that Robinson was charged with a count of menacing, assault in the third degree, harassment and domestic violence that allegedly happened in May 2025. Domestic violence is considered the “sentence enhancer.”
He has pleaded not guilty to the charges.
Robinson was arrested in Center on June 18, 2025, and booked into the Conejos County Jail. He was later let out on a $500 personal recognizance bond.
Rio Grande County Sheriff Anne Robinson told the Citizen on Thursday that Barron Robinson was not related to her. She also confirmed his employment and leave status.
The complainant in the case was named as a Monte Vista Police patrol officer who had been in a relationship with Robinson for two years prior to May 2025.
Center Police Department Lt. Eidy Guaderrama filed the affidavit detailing the evidence of probable cause for Robinson’s arrest; the incident is said to have occurred in Center. In that probable cause statement, Guaderrama was called by Monte Vista Police Department Sgt. Anthony Chacon about “an incident involving an employee within their department.”
The patrol officer reported to their command staff about a domestic violence incident involving Robinson that began in Utah around May 22.
After Guaderrama met with Chacon, he called the patrol officer and had a 26-minute recorded conversation with her. She told him that while she was away in Utah, she had seen “suspicious behavior” from Robinson and discovered that he was “having an affair with a female coworker.”
She told Guaderrama that Robinson had been “turning off both the interior cameras in his home and his cellphone,” and failing to respond to her calls.
Then on May 22, Robinson drove to Utah to pick her up. While staying at a hotel, she confronted Robinson about her suspicions, “hoping for closure.”
She told Guaderrama that Robinson initially avoided the subject then “‘flipped out,’ got in her face, and called her a ‘dumb bitch.’” At this, she told Guaderrama, she became fearful, “having never seen this side of his personality before.”
In this conversation, she recounted that Robinson “walked around the bed, grabbed her arm, and pushed her away.”
While on the highway back to Colorado, “the argument escalated.”
She had reportedly tried to call for help when Robinson was said to have taken her phone. After another hour, she asked him to pull over so she could exit the vehicle. “As she was unbuckling her seatbelt,” Guaderrama wrote in the probable cause statement, “Robinson slammed on the brakes, causing her to hit the dashboard and sustain a bloody nose.”
They continued their drive back to Center and arrived on May 23. While in Center, she had read a letter to Robinson, then he “began yelling again.”
“Fearing for her safety and in fear that Robinson was going to assault her,” she began recording the interaction on her phone. This video was provided to Guaderrama. The video allegedly shows and captures audio of the altercation while the phone is lying face up, aimed at the ceiling. Guaderrama writes that at one point Robinson can be seen grabbing her and “throwing her onto the bed, while she repeatedly begs him to stop.”
In the video, Guaderrama states that Robinson told her “to shoot and kill herself” while refusing to leave the house. She didn’t want to leave the house and “leave her cats behind. Robinson then threatened to kill her cats, walked around the bed, grabbed her and threw her onto the bed, digging his knees into her. He then reportedly got on top of her and squeezed her face.”
Guaderrama said that she provided a photograph of her bruised leg.
Based on this evidence, Guaderrama believed there was probable cause to charge Robinson with third-degree assault, menacing and harassment with domestic violence being the sentence enhancer.
The warrant for Robinson’s arrest was signed by a judge on June 18, 2025. Robinson was arrested later that day according to court documents. Robinson was then booked into the Conejos County Jail and released on June 20 on the PR bond.
He was served with a mandatory protection order that bars him with any contact with the complainant. Also according to court documents, he was served with a Brady Letter that prevents him from owning, using or possessing firearms and ammunition until the letter expires on June 20, 2026.
Robinson has a setting hearing in Saguache County Court on Feb. 12 and his trial is set to begin on April 1.
