A person was fatally injured in a house fire near 80th Avenue and Wolff Street in Westminster, the fire department said. Another person was injured. Three Westminster police officers were evaluated for smoke inhalation. The blaze broke out at about 4 p.m. Tuesday. The cause is under investigation.
In Archuleta County, a Good Samaritan's auto was stolen by the motorist he stopped to help at the scene of a single-vehicle crash on Highway 160 early Wednesday. Deputies gave chase. The carjacker crashed the Good Samaritan's auto in a drainage ditch. Deputies gave him a ride to the county jail.
Kyle Behrens, 20, a transient, is accused of injuring a worker and a customer in a hammer attack at Endless Summer Tanning at 1518 Madison Avenue in Loveland, police said. He faces attempted murder charges in Tuesday's bizarre crime.
A judge sentenced the career crook to 210 months in federal prison for robbing two banks, two credit unions and a taco shop dressed as construction worker and wielding "a high-quality replica gun," prosectors said.
The robberies occurred in Denver between May and July 2023.
During his final heist, Beasley made off with the loot - and a hidden GPS tracker. He was arrested just 12 minutes later on an RTD bus in his construction outfit.
“This man is a serial bank robber and a lifelong criminal," said Marv Massey, Acting Special Agent in Charge of the Denver FBI Field Office.
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Meantime, in Pueblo a pedestrian was killed Wednesday on southbound I-25. In Denver, a person was stabbed overnight in the 2300-block of South Monaco Parkway while another was shot in the 1400-block of South Verbena Street.
Evergreen Fire/Rescue say: "If you have a fire inside your microwave oven while cooking, leave the door closed and push the stop or pause button. By cutting the heat, you'll break the Fire Triangle and the fire will go out. If you push the door open button, the heat stops, but fresh oxygen flows inside."
Karl Smalley, 67, a district commander with the Adams County Sheriff's Office, died Monday near Box Elder Creek in Watkins, officials said. He suffered an apparent medical emergency and wasn't breathing. Smalley was on duty. His passing is considered a line-of-duty death.
The suspect, Ricardo Alonzo Diaz, 30, suffered a bullet wound to the right thigh and was jailed on a burglary charge, police said.
The homeowner told police Diaz had a knife. "The suspect admitted to being homeless and checking doors," police said.
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Bella Lobato Honahni, 14, who went missing from East Colfax Avenue and Gilpin Street in Denver on Dec. 2, has been located and is safe, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said Tuesday.
A federal judge rejected disgraced Mesa County Clerk Tina Peter's request to be freed from prison. Peters, who also lost a bid to be transferred to federal prison, is imprisoned at the La Vista Correctional Facility in Pueblo for election fraud.
In Denver, a person was stabbed overnight in the 2700-block of Curtis Street. Denver police also reported a stabbing Monday in the 1400-block of North Grant Street. In Alamosa, police shot and wounded a knife-wielding suspect during a domestic violence call Monday on West 6th Street.
Missing Kaylee Russell died of blunt force trauma and exposure to the cold, the Larimer County Medical Examiner's Office said Monday.
Russell, 20, of Evans, was found inside her wrecked auto, which crashed and sank in a canal along Larimer County Road 1 in Timnath on Dec. 4.
Authorities had launched an extensive search and appealed to the public for help.
Russell went missing on Nov. 29 and the medical examiner said she probably died the next day.
Pedestrian traffic in central Denver last month reached 92% of
November 2019's level - just weeks before Covid-19 swept the globe, the Downtown Denver Partnership said. Downtown also fell victim to anti-police rioting, prolonged rebuilding of the 16th Street corridor and commercial vacancies.
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A school bus and another vehicle collided in Lakewood causing "multiple injuries," police said. The crash occurred at Kipling Parkway and West 6th Avenue on Saturday night. At least one person was ejected into the roadway, police said.
A woman was killed in a "burglary turned homicide" in a home in the 300-block of South Kendall Street in Lakewood, police said. The woman's body was discovered Saturday night.
Aurora Unidos organizer Yoselin Corrales: “We’re passionate about supporting individuals and immigrants in our community that are being abused and harmed by this administration. We know that Key Lime Air is complicit, and so we are looking to bring the fight to them, and looking for as much information as we can gain for the campaign against their company.”
Key Lime Air’s headquarters are at the Centennial Airport through a sublease with jetCenters of Colorado. The airline’s operation of ICE flights was first reported by Colorado Newsline in October. Two of its planes frequently fly routes between known ICE hubs, including in Texas, Louisiana and Florida, according to a Newsline analysis of publicly available flight tracking data.
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Using cell phone pings, the FBI and Wyoming state troopers tracked and arrested two men transporting a missing 15-year-old Montana girl across the state line on I-25. The rescue occurred near Douglas on Nov. 22, the Wyoming Highway Patrol said. They were traveling to Oklahoma. The teen returned home.
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One person was shot early Sunday at a party in Weld County, the sheriff's office said. Deputies initially "thought there was a second victim in this case, but that individual was reacting to the stress of the incident and is not injured," officials said. The party was being held in the 10100-block of Weld County Road 19.
A school bus and SUV collided on a slick roadway Friday afternoon north of Walden, the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office said. None of the students aboard the bus - North Park K-12 - were injured.
