DEPUTY GUILTY OF ON-DUTY DUI
An Arapahoe County Sheriff’s deputy was convicted Friday of driving under the influence of alcohol and prohibited use of a weapon, both while on duty.
Jeffery Vincent, 45, will be sentenced on the misdemeanor counts on Feb. 1, according to the district attorney’s office.
On Jan. 3, 2017, a fellow deputy told supervisors that he suspected Vincent was intoxicated on the job. Vincent was working at the jail, transporting inmates from the jail to the courthouse, which included a short drive on the justice campus.
Vincent remains on unpaid administrative leave with the sheriff’s office and an internal investigation is ongoing, said Audry LaCrone, a sheriff’s spokeswoman.
Nighttime shutdown to create detour.
Merging from Interstate 25 on to C-470 will get complicated next week, as highway officials plan a complete shutdown of two offramps for three nights in a row at the heavily used interchange.
The Colorado Department of Transportation will close the northbound and southbound I-25 ramps to westbound C-470 starting at 10 p.m. Monday through 5:30 a.m. Tuesday. The shutdown will be in place for the same hours starting Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
The closure is necessary to perform wall excavation work as part of the C-470 Express Lane project, which will add toll lanes to the often-congested south suburban highway.
Motorists coming off I-25 will be asked to detour onto northbound E-470 and then turn around at Peoria Street to head back toward C-470 — a distance of just over 4 miles. No tolls will be charged during the closure.
Bear spotted wandering near Telluride.
The Telluride Daily Planet reported Wednesday that a bear was spotted wandering in Mountain Village, a town near Telluride.
Colorado Parks and Wildlife spokesman Joe Lewandowski says while it’s unusual for a bear to be out wandering during hibernation season, it’s not unheard of. The bear has gotten into a recycling container and a bird feeder.
Thieves steal puppy from Loveland store.Two
men stole a Pomeranian puppy from the Town and Country Pet Center in Loveland early Friday morning in the latest break-in at the store, which has seen at least 13 thefts and burglaries since 1990.
The Pomeranian was worth about $1,500 and was the second most valuable puppy in the store, at 130 S. Cleveland Ave, said coowner Mark Aine, who owns the shop with his wife Sharon. Nothing else was stolen, though the thieves also attempted to break into the cash register.
Fort Collins company installs free solar panels on Habitat home.
A partnership between a Fort Collins alternative energy business and Berthoud’s Habitat For Humanity nonprofit will save single mother Chloe Staley $500 in electricity costs this year.
Workers with Alt E Wind and Solar will install a solar panel array on the roof of Staley’s new Habitat for Humanity home.
Alt E Wind and Solar owner Rick Pike said the system Staley is receiving costs about $13,500 in parts and labor, but he is donating it free of cost to Staley and Habitat for Humanity.