MAN SELLING DRUGS FROM TACO TRUCK CONVICTED
A man selling methamphetamine and cocaine from a food truck in Denver has been convicted of multiple drug charges in federal court.
Jorge Loya-Ramirez, 49, a citizen of Mexico, was convicted by a jury Tuesday after a seven-day trial in federal court, according to a news release from the acting U.S. attorney for Colorado. The jury deliberated for three hours before returning the guilty verdict on nine drug counts.
Loya-Ramirez was among 27 co-defendants indicted by a federal grand jury in June 2015.
Under the guise of selling tacos from a food truck, Loya-Ramirez was the boss of a large, illegal drug operation that imported and distributed about 200 pounds of meth in the Denver area, Fort Morgan, Greeley and southwest Kansas.
Loya-Ramirez faces a minimum 10-year prison sentence, with a possible life sentence.
Denver man, 28, convicted of killing mother, daughter in their home.
A 28-year-old Denver man convicted Thursday of murdering two women — the mother of his two children and her mother — will spend the rest of his life in prison.
After a six-day trial, Angel Chavez was convicted by a Denver jury of two counts of first-degree murder, according to the Denver district attorney’s office. He immediately was sentenced to two consecutive life sentences without the possibility of parole.
On the morning of July 22, Chavez fatally stabbed Maira Cordero, 25, and Raquel Cordero, 45, in their home in the 5500 block of Revere Street, the DA’s office said. He fled the scene and was arrested that day.
At the time of the murders, Chavez was on parole for a 2008 child abuse conviction.
He also was wanted on an outstanding arrest warrant for a parole violation in the case.
Snow dusts top of Pikes Peak.
The temperature atop Pikes Peak late Thursday afternoon dropped to 30 degrees and snow dusted the mountaintop, according to the National Weather Service.
A Pikes Peak Cog Railway image near the top of the mountain at 4:54 p.m. showed the dusting. Meanwhile, it was 70 degrees and cloudy down below in Colorado Springs, with rumbles of thunder.
Pikes Peak, with a summit at 14,115 feet, is about 12 miles west of downtown Colorado Springs.
The high temperature in Colorado Springs climbed to 79 degrees Thursday.
Dear again ruled incompetent to stand trial in Planned Parenthood shooting.
COLORADO
SPRINGS» New 4th Judicial District Chief Judge William Bain on Thursday ruled admitted Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Lewis Dear Jr. was still incompetent to stand trial.
Dear will appear in court Nov. 21 for another hearing to discuss competency.
His prosecution has been on hold while he receives treatment at the State Mental Health Institute at Pueblo. A Pueblo judge as approved a request from the hospital to force Dear to take medications. His defense attorney’s plan to appeal.
Dear, 59, is charged with 179 counts in the Nov. 27, 2015, shooting rampage at Colorado Springs’ lone Planned Parenthood clinic. Three people were killed,and nine were wounded.
Police say he confessed during his surrender at the end of a five-hour standoff, and he has claimed responsibility during courtroom outbursts and through repeated interviews with media outlets, calling himself a “warrior” for unborn children.