POLICE WARN OF SERVICE DELAYS, CLOSED STREETS
AURORA» The Aurora Police Department won’t respond to routine traffic accidents from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday because officers will be monitoring a protest rally outside an ICE detention facility.
They also announced rules for protesters Friday and warned residents several streets will be closed for much of Saturday.
Police will respond to accidents only if someone is injured, if a driver fled the scene or was intoxicated, if the vehicles can’t be driven away or if a driver lacks insurance. Officers also will prioritize calls where someone is in danger, and responses to more routine calls will be delayed.
If drivers are in an wreck that doesn’t meet those criteria, they should exchange names, birth dates, addresses, phone numbers, driver’s license numbers, license plate numbers and insurance policy numbers, police said. The drivers could then file a police report the next day.
Homeless man pleads guilty to murder in trailer death.
GOLDEN» An itinerant man who committed a string of violent crimes across Colorado and Utah in 2017 pleaded guilty Friday to killing a Golden man.
Austin Jeffrey Boutain, 25, faces life in prison without parole after he pleaded guilty to killing Mitchell Ingle while robbing his trailer. He will be sentenced Oct. 3. His wife, Kathleen Boutain, 25, faces 20 charges in connection with Ingle’s death and is awaiting extradition to Colorado.
Austin Boutain previously was sentenced to life in prison for the murder of Chenwei Guo, a student at the University of Utah.
In 2017 the Boutains were drinking and smoking marijuana with Ingle, 63, in his trailer, before Austin Boutain slit his throat. They stole three guns, a pickup and other items before traveling to Utah. Boutain used one of the guns he stole from Ingle to kill Guo. Golden police found Ingle dead during a welfare check after Boutain was arrested in Utah with his clothes and gun.
Woman found guilty of stealing $440,000 from Denver parking garage owners.
A jury found a woman who managed two Denver parking garages guilty of stealing $440,000 from the garages’ owners, according to the Denver district attorney’s office.
Constance M. Volz, 56, was found guilty of two counts of felony theft Thursday. Her sentencing is scheduled for Nov. 8.
Volz owned Premier Parking, which managed garages on 17th Street owned by Transwestern Broadreach LLC and BRCP 17th and Grant LLC, according to an arrest affidavit. In 2015, the companies had filed a complaint alleging Volz had taken funds that should have been paid to the garages’ owners. The owners initially tried to set up a payment plan to recover the missing funds before filing the complaint, according to the affidavit.
Volz admitted to using some of the money but argued the rest was to cover legitimate fees that had gone unpaid, according to the DA’s office.
Denver man arrested for investigation of leaving the scene of a fatal accident on Colorado Boulevard.
Denver police arrested a 25-year-old man for investigation of leaving the scene of a fatal collision