SENTENCING IN TWO ASSAULTS
colorado springs» An El Paso County judge on Thursday sentenced a man to between eight years and life in prison for two 2015 sex assault cases, one of which involved a child victim.
Court records show Jonathan Evangelista Marmolejo, 70, on Thursday pleaded guilty to child sex assault by one in a position of trust and sex assault by overcoming a victim’s will.
The pleas came in two cases.
The Gazette reports that one of Marmolejo’s victims was a teen girl, and the other a 20-year-old developmentally delayed woman. The woman told police she was so terrified she could not sleep alone after a series of assault by Marmolejo began, according to the newspaper.
Marmolejo was arrested in June 2015.
Gun found in school parking lot. Police in
Northglenn found drugs and a handgun in a school parking lot Thursday morning, and a student was taken into custody.
According to a letter the principal of Northglenn High School sent to parents, school officials “received information” that there were drugs in a student’s car in the school parking lot.
Police went to the parking lot with school officials to investigate, and “as they responded, they also made contact with the driver of the car in the parking lot.”
When police searched the vehicle, they found drugs and a handgun, according to the principal’s letter.
The student driver of the car was taken into custody, and police are investigating the incident.
Neither pilot negligent in near collision. A Weld
County jury has determined that two pilots were not negligent when their planes almost collided and one crashed, killing all five people on board in Erie in 2014.
The family of Tori RainsWedan and her three sons had filed four wrongfuldeath lawsuits in connection with the crash at Erie Municipal Airport.
The lawsuits claimed “bad piloting” caused the crash. They named the estate of pilot Oliver Frascona and the pilot of another plane on the runway, Joe Lechtanski, as defendants.
Investigators had determined that Frascona’s plane, which had been carrying the Wedan family, crashed after coming close to Lechtanski’s.
But the jury determined Wednesday that neither of the pilots was at fault.
Student candidates barred from office
B boulder» Two of the winning presidential candidates in the University of Colorado’s student government elections will not be allowed to take office after allegations that they used bribes of cookies and pizzas to gain votes.
The Daily Camera reported that two of the three students on the winning tri-executive ticket have been disqualified for violating campaign rules. CU students elect three student body presidents all running on the same ticket. The third student will take office in May.
A student government appellate court found the two candidates promised cookie cakes and pizzas to students who pledged to vote for them.
CU Chancellor Phil DiStefano will review the student election process that led to the disqualification.