Author: Kirk Mitchell
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Murder of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements remains unsolved four years later
The murder of Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements remains unsolved nearly four years after he was shot to death, but investigators say the case is still open. El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder told reporters last year that the Clements investigation was coming to a conclusion, but he backtracked on that after other law enforcement agencies…
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Class action suit: Immigrants held in Aurora required to work for $1 a day, threatened with solitary if refused
About 62,000 people who were held in an Aurora immigration detention center and required to work, sometimes for $1 a day, while they awaited possible deportation have been certified as a class in a lawsuit alleging violations of the federal Trafficking Victims Protection Act. Senior U.S. District Judge John Kane’s ruling could have far-reaching implications,…
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Person shot in officer-involved confrontation in Denver
Authorities are investigating an officer-involved shooting in Denver early Tuesday morning in which at least one Commerce City police officer shot and injured a suspect, according to Denver police. The suspect suffered non-life-threatening injuries at 5:26 a.m. on the 7200 block of 47th Avenue, said technician Tyrone Campbell, Denver police spokesman. The person’s gender and…
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Smell of pot in Denver suburb leads feds to bust of Nebraska marijuana network
An investigation of an alleged interstate crime network all started with an anonymous tip about a pungent odor emanating from a rental home in Westminster. It was May 2, 2016, harvest time for a lucrative Nebraska-based illegal marijuana network with five pot grow houses and warehouses in Westminster, Dacono, Broomfield and Thornton. On Thursday, federal…
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SWAT officers arrest man and woman after fatal shooting at Denver-area apartment complex
Thornton SWAT officers have arrested a man and a woman in connection with a fatal shooting early Monday morning that happened near a large apartment complex, police say. Police handcuffed two people they are calling persons of interest in the shooting and detectives are questioning the pair in connection with the shooting that happened at 3:41 a.m. a road…
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Man shot and killed after threatening metro Denver police with a gun
Commerce City police fatally shot a man who aimed a handgun at them after a negotiator tried for two hours to persuade him to surrender late Sunday night and early Monday morning, authorities said. The name of the suspect who was shot has not been released. A woman inside a home on the 5800 block…
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Five die in separate northern Colorado crashes as winter weather hits state
Five people died in five separate traffic crashes on Wednesday as winter weather, including ice storm conditions, blasted parts of northern Colorado. Investigators on Wednesday night could not definitively say that all five fatal crashes were caused by adverse weather, but weather did play a role in some. “Certainly weather is playing a factor in…
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Denver lawsuit calls Knights of Columbus life insurance pool a racketeering scheme
A tiny Boulder digital platform company has filed a $100 million lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Denver against the Knights of Columbus, claiming the Catholic-charity behemoth is using “phantom” numbers to fraudulently inflate its 1.4 million insurance pool of mostly aging members. The lawsuit, filed Tuesday by Greenwood Village attorney Jeffrey Vail on behalf…
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Man arrested in Conejos County triple homicide
A 25-year-old man has been arrested for investigation of three counts of first-degree murder in the shooting deaths of two men and a woman whose bodies were found Sunday night outside a home in Capulin. Santos Navares of La Jara, is being held on three counts of first-degree murder after deliberation, three counts of first-degree…
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Woman: Pueblo employer sexually abused and underpaid her
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A San Luis Valley woman who says she was recruited to work at a Pueblo recreational vehicle service center on the promise that she would be given a house, has sued the owner of the…