COLORADO AG FIGHTS $2M LAWSUIT
The office of the Colorado attorney general announced Friday that it will fight a lawsuit seeking $2 million in compensation filed by Clarence MosesEL, a Denver man who spent 28 years in prison for rape and assault before being acquitted in 2016.
In the suit, filed in December in U.S. District Court in Denver, MosesEL accuses defendants of malicious prosecution, destruction of evidence, manufacturing false evidence, mishandling evidence, conspiracy to violate his civil rights and fundamental unfairness of prosecution.
As part of the suit, Moses-EL is requesting nearly $2 million in compensation under Colorado’s Exoneration Act.
Ex-Colorado GOP chairman gets probation for voter fraud.
A former chairman of the Colorado Republican Party, Steve Curtis, was sentenced Friday to four years of probation and 300 hours of community service, stemming from a voter fraud and forgery conviction for signing his ex-wife’s ballot during the 2016 election.
Curtis, 58, was charged in February after authorities said they found DNA evidence, along with handwriting analysis, that linked him to the ballot of his exwife, Kelly Curtis.
Teller County sheriff’s office seizes marijuana, hash oil.
Authorities say marijuana and hash oil were seized after raiding an illegal grow and processing lab in a rural area in central Colorado.
The Teller County Sheriff’s Office says authorities raided a house outside Woodland Park on Thursday, finding 60 plants and dozens of pounds of processed marijuana.
Authorities also found several pounds of hash oil in a THC extraction lab on the property. THC is the active ingredient of cannabis. The sheriff’s office says no arrests were made, but the investigation is ongoing.
Two face charges after body found.
A body found inside an Edwards home as part of a home invasion investigation has been identified, and two suspects in the case are being held without bond on suspicion of first-degree murder.
The body of Catherine Kelley, 74, was found Wednesday in her home. She died of strangulation, and her death is a homicide, according to the Eagle County coroner’s office.
The suspects in the case are Jacob Taylor White, 23, and Leigha Page Ackerson, 24, both of Denver.
Formal charges are scheduled to be filed no later than Feb. 9.
Two arrested in fatal Denver shooting.
Two men have been arrested as suspects in a fatal shooting in Denver.
Lorenzo Lesperance, 26, and Joseph Lovato, 29, are being held on suspicion of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder.
Jeramy Montano, 29, was shot just before 6 p.m. on Jan. 14 in the 3000 block of West Center Avenue, according to an arrest affidavit. Montano had been riding in a silver sedan with two other men when he was shot.
Montano, who was shot multiple times, was taken to Denver Health Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead.
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office and Westminster police assisted Denver police with the arrests.
Basalt officials are warning the public to be wary of containers they find in or along the banks of area rivers after police found what are suspected to be coldcook vessels for methamphetamine.
The Basalt Police Department received a report Wednesday of suspicious bottles submerged in the Roaring Fork River beneath what is known as the 7-