Briefs HIGH SCHOOL DENIES SLURS, CONFEDERATE FLAG AT GAME

A day after officials with Manual High School in Denver accused the Weld Central High School football team of using racial slurs during a game and displaying a Confederate flag, Weld Central officials denied the claims.

Greg Rabenhorst, Keenesburg Re-3J School District superintendent, and Dan Kennedy, principal of Weld Central, said Sunday there is no evidence to support claims made my Manual officials.

“Staff and community members present at the game report that this did not occur,” they said in the statement. “Multiple school officials have viewed a video recording of the game, which contains footage of the Weld Central crowd. From our viewings, no signs of a Confederate flag exist.”

Rabenhorst and Kennedy said there was no evidence that any student athletes displayed racially motivated, inappropriate behavior.

Feds arrest two men in Colorado gun thefts.

Federal authorities have arrested two Missouri men accused of stealing 19 firearms — including five rifles — from a gun store in southeast Colorado last month before selling most of them in St. Louis.

Calvin Terrell Stafford and Napoleon Williams, both 23, were ordered held without bail by a federal judge Friday, Colorado’s U.S. attorney’s office said.

Prosecutors allege that on Aug. 10 the pair traveled to Springfield, intending to buy marijuana to sell in Missouri.

“When the marijuana deal fell, through, they decided to steal firearms from a local gun shop,” the U.S. attorney’s office said. “They stole 19 guns, including five rifles, from Best Way Sales in Springfield.”

The Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco Firearms and Explosives worked with the Baca County Sheriff’s Office and Springfield police.

FBI: “Double Hat Bandit” suspect arrested for bank robberies.

A 54-year-old man suspected of robbing banks and credit unions in seven states was arrested in Indiana. The FBI said Shayne Carson was arrested without incident in the parking lot of a motel in Whiteland, Ind. Carson is scheduled to be transferred to Utah to face a bank-robbery charge stemming from a criminal complaint filed by the U.S. attorney’s office in Salt Lake City.

According to the complaint, Carson is believed to be the “Double Hat Bandit.” Carson allegedly wore two hats — typically a beanie over a baseball cap — during 13 bank robberies throughout Utah, Washington, Oregon, Colorado and Idaho since last December. All the banks were inside grocery stores.

Carson is also a suspect in other bank robberies in Colorado, Iowa and Ohio.

Man shot by officer is sentenced to community corrections.

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A man who was shot by a police officer while he was holding a pellet gun has been sentenced to three years in a community corrections program.

Austin Snodgrass struck a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty Thursday to felony menacing.

Prosecutors say the officer was justified when he shot Snodgrass, who walked toward him while pointing a pellet gun at him outside of a home Jan. 21.

Investigators say Snodgrass acknowledged luring police to his home to get officers to shoot him because he did not want to live anymore.