HIKER FOUND SAFE AFTER HE WENT MISSING FOR TWO DAYS
ASPEN» A 66-year-old Denver man has been found safe after he went missing for two days in the mountains.
The Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office says Neil James Brosseau was found in good spirits shortly before 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Officials say Brosseau was climbing Pyramid Peak with two family members Sunday when he became separated from the others and was last seen about 2 p.m. Sunday at about 13,000 feet at the top of a saddle that leads to the northeast summit ridge.
The other two members of the group hiked out and alerted authorities.
Former nurse sentenced for stealing, swapping out opioids intended for patients.
A former nurse at the University of Colorado Hospital was sentenced to 24 months in federal prison Wednesday for stealing vials of opioid medications and filling them with other substances.
“This defendant took potent pain medicine that was intended for patients and used it to satisfy her addiction,” U.S. Attorney Jason Dunn said.
Kacye Unruh worked in the hospital’s acute dialysis department from May to July 2016 and had access to a Pyxis machine, a single central point for dispensing drugs. According to Dunn’s office, Unruh stole vials containing fentanyl or hydromorphone and injected herself in a bathroom. She then refilled the partially used vials with saline and put them back in the machine.
Six patients were identified as victims, according to the indictment.
Man sentenced to 10 years for fatal drunkendriving crash on I-70.
A man who caused a fiery, fatal crash on eastbound Interstate 70 last year has been sentenced to 10 years in prison, according to the Denver district attorney’s office.
Ivan Zamarripa Castaneda, 28, who also was wanted by Immigration and Customs Enforcement for being in the country illegally, pleaded guilty in July to one count of vehicular homicide while driving intoxicated. He also had been charged with fleeing the scene of an accident.
Shortly before midnight March 3, 2018, Zamarripa Castaneda was attempting to merge near North Brighton Boulevard when he crashed his pickup into a semi pulling a refrigeration trailer. The semi caught on fire after striking a concrete highway barrier, and the driver, 57-year-old John Anderson, was unable to escape. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
Zamarripa-Castaneda reportedly fled. He was arrested at his house.
His arrest and subsequent release on bail was the subject of an internal review by the Denver Sheriff Department because ICE wasn’t notified until after ZamarripaCastaneda was released.
City policy is to give the federal agency advance notice of an inmate’s release when it requests notification.
Man shot, killed in Montbello neighborhood.
Police are investigating a man’s shooting death in the Montbello neighborhood as a homicide.
The shooting happened at 14900 E. Lackland Place about midnight Tuesday, said Kurt Barnes, Denver police spokesman.
The victim was taken to