SEX OFFENDER MISTAKENLY RELEASED IS REARRESTED
Aaron “Jason” Dotson was supposed to spend 324 years in prison for sexually abusing multiple children, but last year he found his way to freedom.
Dotson was mistakenly released from Mesa County Jail on Aug. 5, 2017, and was rearrested on Thursday, according to the The Daily Sentinel. The cause of his mistaken release is unknown, according to Mesa County Sheriff’s Department.
Dotson was transferred back to the county jail after Colorado’s Court of Appeals granted Dotson a retrial for a 2012 conviction for sexual assault of minors and incest.
The court found that prosecutors in Dotson’s first trial had introduced irrelevant evidence about a nonsexual violent interaction with a minor, which triggered the retrial. The $250,000 bond given to him for his first trial was reinstated, according to the Sentinel.
Dotson never paid the bond and when the error was realized, he was rearrested.
While he was released, Dotson was wearing an GPS monitor and was under pretrial supervision.
2yearold fatally shot in Colorado Springs.
A 2yearold was fatally shot in Colorado Springs on Sunday, according to El Paso County Sheriff’s Office.
The boy shot himself in the head and died at the hospital, according to KKTV 11 News.
Coroner identifies dead skydiver as 23yearold Simla man.
The skydiver found dead in northern Colorado has been identified as 23yearold Logan Polfuss of Simla.
The Boulder County Coroner’s Office said Saturday that the cause and manner of death are pending further investigation. The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office says Polfuss had a planned a jump in Longmont on Thursday.
Polfuss worked as a turbine repair technician for wind company Vestas, according to his Facebook account.
He competed in ultra marathons and was an avid climber, his social media accounts show.
Shortly after 9 p.m. Thursday, Polfuss’ girlfriend called Longmont police after he didn’t return home.
He was reported to be an experienced skydiver who had completed more than 200 jumps.
Police found Polfuss’ car still parked at the airport and began searching the area. His body was found Friday in a field west of the airport.
The Federal Aviation Administration is investigating.
Greeley police investigating early Sunday morning shooting.
Greeley police are investigating a nonfatal shooting on the west side of town.
The shooting occurred about 4 a.m. Sunday morning in the 1500 block of 88th Avenue Court, said Sgt. Jim Roybal, a spokesman for Greeley police. A man was shot during the incident, but his injuries do not appear to be life threatening.
Roybal declined to release the victim’s name given the investigation was still in its early stages Sunday. Information about a possible suspect or suspects also was not released.
The case had already been turned over to Greeley police’s investigations unit, Roybal said.
Investigators found a hole in an exterior wall on the north side of the house.
By 11 a.m., investigators were using a metal detector to locate and recover a bullet that appeared to be lodged in the dirt between the suspect house and the neighbor’s.
49 people displaced after threealarm fire tears through Aurora apartment complex.
Aurora Fire Rescue responded to a threealarm structure fire in a multifamily residence at 2155 S. Rifle Way on Sunday night.
Aurora Fire Rescue said on Twitter that the fire was under control and 24 units of the apartment complex were damaged, displacing 49 people. No injuries were reported.
The fire started outside of the building and quickly spread up the side where it entered the third floor of the threestory building. Once inside, “very heavy fire” collapsed roughly a third of the roof, said Stephen McInerny, department chief of operations Aurora Fire Rescue.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation. All of the units of the 24unit building were damaged, either by smoke, fire, water or a combination of the three, McInerny said. The most severe damage took place on the third floor with both heavy fire and water damaged affecting the units.
The fire was initially reported at 6:22 p.m.