DRIVER IS ARRESTED IN INCIDENT AT FESTIVAL
Denver police said they have arrested a person on alcohol- related charges in connection with an accident Saturday night in which a car drove through a barricade at the A Taste of Colorado festival downtown and injured at least one person.
The driver’s name has not been released pending the outcome of additional blood tests, police said.
The incident happened just before 9 p. m. on 14th Street between Broadway and Lincoln Avenue. A pedestrian suffered a leg injury, although it remains unclear how serious, police spokesman Kurt Barnes said.
The three- day A Taste Of Colorado in the city’s Civic Center Park is the state’s largest free- admission outdoor festival and ran through Labor Day.
Officials identify Denver woman found in Boulder drainage ditch.
A Denver woman whose body was found by city workers draining a ditch in Boulder last week was identified Monday by the Boulder County coroner.
The woman, 36- year- old Raquel Perkes, was found just after 10 a. m. on Friday by workers clearing brush from a drainage ditch near Valmont City Park’s disc golf course, just east of Foothills Parkway, according to a tweet by Boulder police that day.
The coroner’s office did not immediately respond to messages from The Denver Post seeking additional information and it was unclear how Perkes died. An investigation is continuing. The woman’s identity was first reported by KDVR- 31.
Denver police investigate death on lower west side.
Denver police on Monday said they were investigating a decomposed body found near South Platte River Drive and West Alameda Avenue.
It was unclear how the body got there or its gender.
In a tweet sent shortly before noon, police said an investigation was continuing and offered no additional details. Police later said the Denver coroner’s office would be handling the next stage of the inquiry.
The intersection is near the city’s Athmar Park and Baker neighborhoods.
Seat belt use up in state.
CORTEZ Colorado drivers and passengers are using seat belts more often.
A Colorado Department of Transportation survey shows 88% of Coloradans report using seat belts, up from 86% in 2018 and 60% in 1997.
The Cortez Journal reports the national rate for seat belt use is 90%.
People in sport- utility vehicles have Colorado’s highest rate of seat- belt use, 92%. About 83% of people in pickup trucks and 76% of those in commercial vehicles use seat belts.
Unbuckled motorists accounted for 220 of the 416 deaths on Colorado roads in 2018.
Colorado Springs balloon pilot grounded for dipping into tainted lake.
A Colorado Springs balloon festival grounded a pilot for briefly touching down in a lake that was off- limits because of a harmful algae.
The Gazette reports the pilot dipped his balloon’s basket into Prospect Lake on Sunday before quickly lifting off again, a maneuver called a “splash and dash.”
All the pilots in the festival were told not to touch down in the lake because of the presence of bluegreen algae, which can be fatal to dogs and make humans sick. The city has banned anyone from wading, swimming, boating and paddle boarding in the lake.
Scott Appelman, director of the Labor Day Liftoff festival, says he disqualified the pilot from flying in the event on Monday.
Appelman said he witnessed the incident. He declined to identify the pilot.
Fugitive leaps twice from buildings but Colorado Springs police still nab him.
Colorado Springs police say a man who was trying to elude officers jumped from a secondstory window, ran to the roof of another building and leaped again before he was arrested.
KOAA- TV reports the man suffered non- lifethreatening injuries in the incident Saturday and was taken to a hospital.
Police say the man’s first jump was 25 feet and the second was 50 feet. He landed on the roof of an RV in his second jump.
He was issued a summons on an obstruction charge. Police say he also had outstanding warrants on narcotics charges.
Authorities identified him as 32- year- old Bryan Anthony Bates. No phone number could be found for him, and jail records didn’t indicate if he had a lawyer who could speak on his behalf.