FURNITURE STORE GUTTED BY BLAZE
A fire destroyed a furniture store in northwest Denver on Tuesday morning.
The blaze, at Green Door Furniture, broke out at about 10 a.m. The store is at West 41st Avenue and Tennyson Street.
No one was injured in the fire. The cause was not immediately known.
Firefighters were not sent into the building. Instead, they chose to fight the blaze through defensive operations, the Denver Fire Department said.
1st felony DUI conviction by Denver jury handed down. A man convicted in
Denver of his fourth DUI bears the notoriety of being the first DUI felon in the city found guilty by jury trial.
Matthew Allen, 30, was found guilty Tuesday by a Denver jury of his fourth offense of driving while ability impaired, a fourthdegree felony, according to the district attorney’s office.
Allen was pulled over at about 2 a.m. March 17, St. Patrick’s Day, near the intersection of West Alameda Avenue and Lipan Street after a police officer saw him cut in front of an ambulance, prosecutors said.
Allen faces a sentence ranging from probation to up to six years in prison. He will be sentenced Jan. 19.
Ponderosa High security staffer suspected of sex assault B A
parker» Ponderosa High School campus security specialist is suspected of sexually assaulting a student.
Gary Postell, 49, of Castle Rock was arrested Monday on allegations of assaulting a student at the school, 7007 Bayou Gulch Road in Parker, according to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office.
Postell was taken into custody at his home and booked into the Douglas County jail. Bail was set at $5,000.
Woman gets 20 years in drowning of grandson
B jefferson county» A grandmother has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for the drowning death of her 10-year-old grandson, who had cerebral palsy.
Onesia Ann Najera, 52, appeared in Jefferson County District Court on Tuesday and received the maximum sentence in the case, according to the district attorney’s office.
She pleaded guilty Oct. 14 to child abuse resulting in death, a felony, in the drowning of Angel Goodwin.
Wheat Ridge police on May 5, 2015, were called to Najera’s home, where they found Angel, who had been pulled from a bathtub, unresponsive. Angel lived with Najera, who was his legal guardian.