Author: Kirk Mitchell
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Former Fort Carson employee sentenced in terror threat
A man who threatened to turn a Colorado Springs area Army base into “Fort Columbine” was sentenced Tuesday to 16 months in a federal prison. U.S. District Judge Christine Arguello also sentenced Douglas Kunz, 55, a former butcher at Fort Carson’s commissary store, to three years of supervised release. In September, Kunz pleaded guilty to…
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First inmate to ever escape from Jefferson County jail on the run
Law enforcement officers across the metro area are on the lookout for an inmate who escaped from the Jefferson County Detention Facility Sunday night, authorities say. Travis Sandlin, 32, escaped from the jail’s maximum security pod, said Jacki Kelley, spokeswoman for the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department. “We consider anyone who escapes from jail to be…
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College student killed in fall in Mesa County
A Colorado Mesa University student from Lakewood has been identified as the hiker who fell to his death in Bangs Canyon on Saturday. Justin Alan Hofferber, 19, died of multiple injuries, according to a news release Sunday by the Mesa County Coroner’s Office. The manner of death was an accident, according to the coroner’s office.…
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Kelsey Grammer forgives man who killed his sister in Colorado Springs, but doesn’t want him released
BUENA VISTA — Actor Kelsey Grammer on Tuesday offered his forgiveness to the man who raped and killed his sister in 1975 in Colorado Springs, but he said he wants to see him remain behind bars. Grammer, speaking via video conference from Denver, testified at the parole board hearing for inmate Freddie Glenn. Glenn was convicted…
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Mother sues over son’s prison death by violent inmate
A year before Evan Ebel gave prison reformers a good reason to question putting inmates in solitary confinement for long periods, a Colorado prisoner provided fodder for a counter argument. Disregarding a warning from Arizona prison officials to keep homicidal-inmate Paul Farley away from other prisoners, Colorado officials placed him in a 77-square-foot cell with…
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Fort Collins woman arrested in beating minutes after bailing out of jail
Just 25 minutes after a woman bailed out of jail in Fort Collins on a charge of driving under the influence of drugs following a car crash, she and two relatives allegedly attacked two people with a baseball bat, including the woman whose SUV she crashed in the traffic accident. Tanicia Carter, 36, was returned…
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Wild rabbit in Fort Collins infected with tularemia
A “die-off” of rabbits in southeast Fort Collins has triggered a health warning that tularemia bacteria found in one of the rabbits could make people and pets sick, authorities say. The Larimer County Department of Health and Environment issued an alert primarily for residents in the Hahn Acres, Linden Park, and Paragon Estates neighborhoods. The…
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Prisoner says he worked with Denver jail guard to sell pot and porn
In an extraordinary hearing before a federal judge Friday, a prisoner described how he worked with a jail deputy to sell pornography and marijuana behind bars and mete out beatings to inmates who crossed him. Amos Page, a self-described leader for the Bloods street gang, told how he coerced a deputy he caught drinking vodka…
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Terrorist at Supermax wins federal appeal against US
A terrorist serving a life sentence for the 1998 bombing of the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania has won a federal appeal, giving him the right to visit and correspond with a larger circle of friends and relatives. In Tuesday’s 45-page written ruling, Chief U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger ruled that the FBI violated the Administrative…
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Colorado man allegedly carted mummified roommate around in Rubbermaid box
A man who allegedly killed a woman, curled her up into a Rubbermaid container and carried her from home to home faces a preliminary hearing Thursday on a charge of second degree murder. Jon David Harrington, 50, is accused in the death of Carolyn Jansen, 43, who was last heard from in 2003. The hearing…