37 CHARGED IN SEIZURE OF 141 POUNDS OF METH
Authorities charged 37 people and seized 141 pounds of methamphetamine in a bust that spanned Colorado, Arizona and California.
Arrest warrants were served throughout the Denver area and in the other states Wednesday after a federal grand jury issued two separate indictments on April 19 and May 2, according to a joint statement from the U.S. Attorney, Drug Enforcement Administration and Colorado Attorney General.
The drug ring has been operating in Colorado since at least July 1, 2015, according to the statement. The list of charges against individuals includes conspiracy to distribute and possess with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, knowingly or intentionally distributing and possessing with the intent to distribute methamphetamine, intentionally using a communications device in causing or facilitating the commission of a drug felony and money laundering.
Denver led the operation. There were 25 individuals arrested. The remaining people are at large, according to the statement.
Suspect arrested in Colorado in death of Utah girl.
SALT LAKE
A Utah man whom police describe as a suspect in the killing of a teenage girl in Salt Lake City was arrested Wednesday in Colorado after a two-day manhunt.
Shaun French, 24, had been in a sexual relationship with 15-year-old Baleigh Bagshaw and lived at her home, Salt Lake Police Sgt. Brandan Shearer said after his arrest. Police did not release a possible motive for Bagshaw’s killing, nor would they disclose additional details about how she was killed.
Shearer called it a brutal killing that Bagshaw’s mother overheard while talking on the phone to her daughter Monday, shortly after she had returned home from high school.
French has been charged with three counts of sexual involvement with a minor. Utah authorities are seeking to extradite him and will travel to Colorado to try to interview him, Shearer said.
He is the only suspect in the case, police said.
French was arrested in Otero County in southeastern Colorado. Authorities would not disclose whether he had been identified by his distinctive SUV, a camouflage-painted 1991 Daihatsu Rocky.
Air Force colonel faces sex assault charges in October trial.
PETERSON
BASE» An Air AIR FORCE Force colonel has been charged with sexual assault. Jason Costello faces a military trial in October on charges of assaulting or groping women on three occasions beginning in 2012.
He also is accused of hitting a woman in the face and violently grabbing another by the arm. If convicted, he could face up to 30 years in prison.
Costello is an F-22 fighter pilot and intelligence analyst stationed at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs. He is assigned to the North American Aerospace Defense Command and U.S. Northern Command. The Air Force says Costello is on active duty, planning training exercises.