WOMAN, 46, RUN OVER BY TRACTOR, KILLED
A 46-year-old woman was killed Saturday evening when she was run over by a tractor in southern Boulder County, according to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office.
The incident happened at about 6:18 p.m. in the 30 block of Barcelona Drive. Details of the incident were not yet available.
Firefighters and medical personnel from Rocky Mountain Fire Department, Louisville Fire Department, Lafayette Fire Department and sheriff’s deputies responded and rendered aid.
The woman, who has not yet been identified, was found unconscious and not breathing. She was pronounced dead at the scene.
A Boulder County coroner investigator and sheriff’s detectives are investigating, although foul play is not suspected at this time, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
Message led to discovery of 11 kids in compound.
TAOS,
» A message that people were starving, believed to come from someone inside a makeshift compound in rural northern New Mexico, led to the discovery of 11 children living in filthy conditions.
Taos County Sheriff’s officials said the children ranging in age from 1 to 15 were removed from the compound in the small community of Amalia — 145 miles northeast of Albuquerque and in an isolated high-desert area near the New Mexico-Colorado border. They were then turned over to state child-welfare workers.
Two men were arrested during the search. Siraj Wahhaj was detained on an outstanding warrant in Georgia alleging child abduction. Lucas Morten was jailed on suspicion of harboring a fugitive, Sheriff Jerry Hogrefe said.
A 3-year-old boy reported missing from Georgia’s Clayton County since December 2017 was not among the 11 children found at the compound.
Coroner confirms missing Fort Collins hiker’s identity after autopsy.
COLLINS» A FORT coroner says a body found in Rocky Mountain National Park is confirmed to be that of a man who went missing during a hike.
According to the Fort Collins Coloradoan, the Boulder County Coroner’s Office is still investigating the cause of death of Brian Perri, 38, of Fort Collins.
Park officials have said the body was found in late July, about four weeks after Perri went missing during a day hike. He was last heard from June 30 when he texted a friend a photo of himself on top of the 13,911foot mountain.
Park rangers found Perri’s car in a trailhead parking lot. Officials have said they believe Perri fell 25 to 40 feet and died instantly.
Man charged in 2003 murder brought to Wyoming for trial.
WYO.» Authorities say LARAMIE, a man charged in a 2003 murder has been brought back to Wyoming for trial.
Fidel Serrano was booked into the Albany County Detention Center on Friday. Albany County Attorney Peggy Trent tells the Laramie Boomerang that she began the process to extradite Serrano in 2016.
Serrano is charged with firstdegree murder and flight to avoid prosecution and is being held without bond. Authorities say he shot a co-worker at a furniture factory in Laramie. According to court documents, witnesses saw the two men fighting the night before.
Authorities suspected Serrano fled to Colorado, then to Mexico. Trent says federal authorities, including the U.S. Marshals and the FBI helped return Serrano to Wyoming for a trial in the man’s death.