CHARGES FILED IN JUNE DEATH OF WOMAN
Multiple charges have been filed in the death of a 38-year-old woman whose body was found in a vehicle in Arvada in June.
Christopher Louis Moffat, 36, has been charged with first-degree murder, tampering with a deceased human body and tampering with physical evidence, all felonies, according to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.
On June 19, Arvada police were called about a woman inside a vehicle at 6431 Welch Court, according to a Monday news release. When officers arrived they found Veronica Sarinana deceased in the vehicle.
Moffat and Sarinana had been in a “relationship,” the release said. The coroner’s office determined her cause of death to be by strangulation.
Moffat is being held in Grand County. He’s scheduled to appear in district court in Jefferson County on Aug. 6.
Body recovered from river identified.
A body recovered from the Poudre River in Larimer County on Tuesday has been identified as that of a man who fell out of a raft in June.
The body of David L. Smith, 57, of Fort Collins, was found by a kayaker July 23 off of Colorado 14, according to the sheriff’s office.
Smith was last seen June 29 after falling from a raft into the river.
Missing Air Force officer’s body found.
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Searchers say they ON E have found the body of an Air Force officer who failed to return from a hiking trip in the rugged Sangre de Cristo Mountains of southern Colorado.
Custer County Search & Rescue said Sunday that the body of Lt. Col. Dan Wallick was found Saturday and that searchers returned to the area to recover his body on Sunday.
The Gazette reported that Wallick texted his family Wednesday after climbing two mountains over 14,000 feet above sea level, Kit Carson Peak and Challenger Point, but wasn’t heard from after that. The 41-year-old was assigned to Schriever Air Force Base east of Colorado Springs and worked in missile defense.
Mother sentenced in daughter’s death.
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A Colorado woman who pleaded guilty to negligent homicide for failing to get medical help for her young daughter’s head injury has been sentenced to three years in a halfway house.
Lauren Olivia Sierra was sentenced Friday for the death of Sophia Fundora last August at a motel in Fountain. Sierra has spent 320 days in custody since her arrest.
Investigators couldn’t prove who caused Sophia’s non-accidental head injuries because a man had watched the girl during the time she was injured.
Second brother sentenced.
The second of two brothers arrested on child pornography charges in Englewood last year has been sentenced to 32 years in prison, the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said in a news release.
Daniel Paul Alberts, 67, pleaded guilty last week to four counts of sexual exploitation of a child, all felonies. His brother, Timothy Alberts, 63, pleaded guilty in December to two counts of sexual exploitation of a child. He was sentenced in February to 22 years in prison. — Denver