SOLDIER ACCUSED OF KILLING SOLDIER
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Army soldier has been arrested in the shooting death of another soldier.
Pfc. Isaiah Towns was being held on suspicion of second-degree murder in the Saturday death of Spc. Shakir D. Cook-Troynel.
Cook-Troynel and Towns were assigned to the 4th Infantry Division at Fort Carson in Colorado Springs.
Cook-Troynel was 23 and was from Homestead, Fla. He joined the Army in 2015 and deployed to Afghanistan this year. The Army says he received several commendations including the Army Achievement Medal.
The 20-year-old Towns is from Batesville, Miss. He has been in the Army for 17 months.
Man who shot, killed victim at sports bar is sentenced to life in prison.
COUNTY» A ARAPAHOE man who fatally shot a victim in the head, after being challenged to a fist fight at an Aurora bar, has been sentenced to life in prison. Miguel Angel Licona-Ortega, 24, was found guilty last week by a jury of first-degree murder in the 2017 shooting death of Javier Chacon-Ortega, according to a district attorney’s office news release.
After a four-day trial, the jury deliberated for about an hour before returning with a guilty verdict on Nov. 14. Arapahoe District Court Judge Andrew Baum immediately sentenced Licona-Ortega to life in prison without parole.
Man sentenced to three years in prison for illegal marijuana operation in forest.
A federal judge sentenced a 25-year-old man last week to three years in federal prison for growing and intending to sell large quantities of marijuana, the U.S. attorney’s office announced.
Margarito Yepez-Sanchez, a Mexican living in the United States illegally, also received three years of supervised release for conspiracy to manufacture and possess with intent to distribute 100 or more marijuana plants.
Yepes-Sanchez was charged in September 2017, after federal agents discovered an illegal marijuana grow in San Isabel National Forest, the U.S. attorney’s office said. Agents found approximately 13,800 marijuana plants and at least 120 pounds of processed marijuana on 12 acres of federal land.
Firefighters put out small wildfires south of Denver area.
Firefighters extinguished two small brush fires that broke out south of the Denver area Wednesday morning.
Fire crews put out a small wildfire that broke out in brush near Colorado 470 and U.S. 285, authorities say. Within minutes, South Metro Fire Rescue firefighters were fighting a small, slow-moving wildfire near Hilltop Road and Village Road in Douglas County. The fire was out within 20 minutes, according to a second tweet.
Jury finds chiropractor guilty of molesting 8year-old.
ARAPAHOE
COUNTY» A jury has convicted an Aurora chiropractor of eight counts of sexual assault on a child, including four counts of molestation by a person of trust, authorities say.
The jury also found Craig Martin Stice, 58, guilty of committing four counts of sexual abuse against a child by pattern.
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