LIFE IN PRISON FOR DEATHS OF GIRLS NEAR NORWOOD
TELLURIDE» A woman will spend the rest of her life behind bars for killing her two daughters after she and other members of a doomsday religious group banished them to a car without food or water because the girls were thought to have been impure.
Nashika Bramble was sentenced to life in prison without parole Tuesday in the deaths of Makayla Roberts, 10, and Hannah Marshall, 8. She was convicted in July of two counts of first-degree murder.
The sisters’ bodies were found in September 2017 in a car parked on a farm near Norwood. Heat, dehydration and starvation killed the girls, and they had been dead for several weeks before their bodies were found, authorities said.
Bramble was a member of a religious group that moved to the property that year, court documents say.
Delays for afternoon DPS buses.
A potential sickout by Denver Public Schools bus drivers didn’t materialize Wednesday morning, but district officials reported delays on 22 routes in the afternoon.
DPS officials warned parents that bus drivers might call in sick Wednesday after the Denver district attorney declined to press charges against a parent accused of punching a school employee in an incident last month that involved a school bus driver pulling over to try to calm unruly students.
Delays were averaging about 20 minutes Wednesday afternoon, the school system tweeted.
Woman who faces charges in Golden murder case extradited from Utah.
A woman suspected in the death of a 63-year-old Golden man in 2017 has been extradited from Utah. Kathleen Boutain, 25, faces charges in the death of the Mitchell Ingle, according to the Jefferson County district attorney’s office.
Her husband, Austin, was extradited to Colorado in July in connection to Ingle’s death, and in September he pleaded guilty. He’s scheduled to be sentenced today.
Kathleen Boutain was expected to appear in court in Jefferson County this week in the Ingle case.
Ringleader of metro-area ID and theft ring sentenced to 24 years in prison.
A 29-year-old man was sentenced Monday to 24 years in prison for operating an ID and theft ring in the metro area.
A Jefferson County jury in August found Michael Mancuso guilty of 43 counts, including violation of the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act for engaging in a pattern of racketeering, according to the district attorney’s office.
Seven co-defendants were indicted and convicted in the case. Prosecutors described Mancuso as a ringleader of the criminal enterprise.
The ring illegal obtained financial and personal information of victims and would go online and purchase Visa card information belonging to victims in the metro area. They then purchased goods and services with the Visa card information, and sold the items to pawn shops and second-hand stores.
Mancuso had eight prior felony convictions. In April 2018, he was chased down by Golden police as he attempted to steal a bicycle from a local shop.