Author: Lance Benzel
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Joshua Carrier, former CSPD cop who molested 18 children, seeks reduced sentence
A former Colorado Springs police officer convicted of molesting 18 middle-school boys asked a judge Wednesday to reduce his 70-year-to-life sentence in prison — leading the mother of one victim to lash out at his “audacity.” Joshua Carrier, who was convicted in 2012 of fondling students while serving as a volunteer wrestling coach at Horace Mann…
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Colorado Springs breaks 1895 cold temperature records on Valentine’s Day
Bob Stuka, aka Crazy Bob, claims to hold the record for the fastest downhill of the Manitou Incline, with a time of 7 minutes, 35 seconds. He, like others, laps the Incline every morning, often anywhere between two to four times. (Video courtesy Bob Stuka.) Valentine’s Day flirted with record lows in parts of the…
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2 killed in Colorado avalanches, season total hits 10 in most dangerous year in a decade
Two people were killed Sunday in separate avalanches in Colorado, the latest in a deadly season for backcountry adventurers. A snowmobiler was caught and killed in an avalanche west of Rollins Pass near Fraser, according to the Colorado Avalanche Information Center. The avalanche occurred on an east-facing slope above tree-line on Mount Epworth. When the…
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Colorado Springs jurors complained Marco Garcia-Bravo prosecutors ‘wasted their time’
A jury forewoman offered a blunt assessment of prosecutors’ more than four-month effort to prove their case against a man accused of murder in the 2017 execution-style shootings of two Colorado Springs teenagers, a judge said Thursday. “The jury felt that much of their time was wasted by the prosecution,” 4th Judicial District Judge David…
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Jury convicts Marco Garcia-Bravo of one count; retrial on murder charges set
A jury Monday convicted Marco Garcia-Bravo of a single count of accessory to murder in the 2017 killings of two Colorado Springs teenagers — but failed to reach an accord on whether he was guilty of murder in their execution-style killings. Fourth Judicial District Judge David A. Shakes ordered Garcia-Bravo, of Colorado Springs, to appear in…
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Sinkhole snares Colorado Springs fire engine after water-main break
The Colorado Springs Fire Department’s newest fire engine became ensnared in an epic pothole early Sunday after a road collapsed beneath it during an emergency call. The incident — which occurred about 4 a.m. in the 4700 block of Ranch Drive near Union and Academy boulevards — revealed that an unseen, subterranean water main break had undermined…
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Person shot during carjacking in southeast Colorado Springs
A person was shot early Sunday during a carjacking at a southeast Colorado Springs apartment complex, police said. The male victim was taken to a hospital with “serious but non-life threatening injuries,” after the robbery at 1 a.m. in the 1400 block of Sandalwood Drive, near East Fountain and South Academy boulevards, Colorado Springs police…
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New El Paso County DA criticized over demotion of longtime prosecutor
Longtime El Paso County prosecutor Donna Billek is set to be demoted next week, a move that freed up her senior rank for a former district attorney recruited after a controversial tenure in Adams and Broomfield counties. Billek, a nearly 22-year office veteran who handled cases against admitted Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear Jr.…
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Helen Collins, former Colorado Springs councilwoman, dies at 64
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Helen Patrice Collins, a former Colorado Springs city councilwoman who drew attention — and public censure — for her political and personal alliance with anti-tax crusader Douglas Bruce, has died. She was 64. Collins died Wednesday of natural causes while under hospice care, an El Paso County…
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‘Riot’ at Colorado Springs psychiatric hospital leads to 5 arrests
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Five juveniles were arrested at a Colorado Springs mental health hospital Saturday night after a “riot” that injured several workers, police said. Officers were summoned at about 9 p.m. to Cedar Springs Hospital, 2135 Southgate Road, and told after their arrival that several patients were…