SUMMIT SEARCH FOR A MISSING 33-YEAR-OLD SUSPENDED
A search in Summit County for a missing Denver man who was last seen Aug. 3 has been suspended.
The Summit County Rescue Group and the Summit County Sheriff’s Office “reluctantly” suspended the search for 33-year-old Tyler Gorrell, according to a Tuesday news release.
The rescue group and sheriff’s office were notified Friday that Gorrell was missing and that his vehicle, a Ford Escape, had been located at the winter trailhead on Rock Creek Road.
An initial search, with a dog team, focused heavily on the area around the vehicle. Since the start of the search in Summit County, 72 people provided 510 hours in an attempt to find Gorrell. Eleven dogs were used in the search effort, along with two days of flight support by the Civil Air Patrol, the news release said.
The 21-square-mile search area includes the primary hiking trails in the Gore Range, from Silverthorne to Boulder Creek. In addition, about 200 flyers have been distributed and more than 100 backcountry hikers contacted about Gorrell’s disappearance.
No evidence has been found in connection to Gorrell’s disappearance. No sightings have been reported.
Dogs did show interest in an area on Gore Range Trail, about 3 miles from where Gorrell’s Ford was found. After a thorough investigation of the area, mostly off trail, no evidence leading to Gorrell was found.
If new leads are developed, a search will be resumed, authorities said.
Wildfire breaks out in foothills west of Boulder, is quickly contained.
A wildfire scorched about 7 acres Tuesday afternoon in the foothills west of Boulder, and the sheriff’s office sent evacuation notifications by phone to area residents.
After quick work by area firefighters, the evacuation orders were lifted.
The Sugarloaf fire broke out late Tuesday afternoon near the 4000 block of Sugarloaf Road, according to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office. Evacuations were in place along Lost Angel and down to Dream Canyon.
The sheriff’s office sent 198 notifications to residents before containing the fire.
The cause of the fire is under investigation.
Aurora’s diversity celebrated at Global Fest this weekend.
Aurora on Saturday will hold its fifth annual Global Fest event, which celebrates international cultures in a city where one in five residents was born outside the U.S.
Global Fest will feature a day filled with music, dance, art and food from around the world. The event includes two stages of performances, food vendors with global flavors, a Parade of Nations, an International Fashion Show and a beer garden.
New this year are an expanded children’s activities area in partnership with the Mexican Cultural Center, an exhibit at the Aurora History Museum focused on the history and contributions of Aurora’s Salvadoran community, and a photography exhibit on Mexican choreographer Amalia Hernandez.
Global Fest is 11 a.m. to 6 p.m. Saturday at the Aurora Municipal Center, 15151 E. Alameda Parkway.
Mount Royal hiker who died in fall ID’d as 43year-old Pa. woman.
A 43-year-old woman died Sunday night after falling about 150 feet while descending Mount Royal, marking the third reported hiking death this summer in Summit County.
The county coroner identified the woman as Regina Foley. She was from Havertown, Pa., but owned a condo at the Pointe at Lake Dillon in Frisco, according to local property records.
The Summit Daily held off publishing Foley’s name earlier Monday after speaking to a family member who said Foley came from a big extended family and not all the family had been notified.
Federal agencies removed 71,000 marijuana plants from public lands in 2017.
Federal agencies removed more than 71,000 marijuana plants from public lands during last year’s growing season, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for Colorado.
The plants were growing illegally on about 38 acres, not including the islands of the Colorado River. These grows are ones that operate outside of the laws established for Colorado’s legal cannabis industry.
The marijuana growing season typically runs from early summer through the fall.
The Forest Service, Bureau of Land Management and Homeland Security Investigations assisted with a number of the investigations that resulted in at least seven cases that have resulted in prison time for some of the defendants. — Denver Post staff