EX-OFFICER FROM MEXICO CONVICTED IN RAPE

COUNTY» A former ARAPAHOE police officer in Mexico who fled allegations of rape there was convicted Wednesday of sexual assault and burglary charges related to raping a woman at an Aurora apartment complex and returning to terrorize another woman at the same complex.

An Arapahoe County jury convicted Ricardo Corral-Venegas, now 27, of raping at knifepoint on Oct. 4, 2016, a 26-year-old woman at the Santana Ridge complex in the 1300 block of South Geneva Way. After that rape, he returned days later to Santana Ridge and tried to force his way into another apartment, but an 18-year-old woman fought him off, according to authorities.

Corral-Venegas is a former police officer in Chihuahua, Mexico, where news reports have said he allegedly used a red motorcycle and pretended to be a courier when sexually attacking women. CorralVenegas has been previously deported to Mexico for being in the country illegally, authorities said.

Colorado Gives Day collects $36.1 million.

Coloradans gave $36.1 million to support local nonprofits on Colorado Gives Day on Tuesday.

Colorado Gives Day is an annual statewide movement to celebrate and increase philanthropy in Colorado through online giving. This year, more than 153,000 donations were made to support 2,309 nonprofits.

Last year, donors gave $33.8 million to 2,111 nonprofits, an increase over the $28.5 million donated on Colorado Gives Day 2015.

Boulder’s Access Fund joins Patagonia, others in suing Trump administration over Bears Ears cut.

Boulder-based climbing advocacy organization Access Fund, along with Patagonia and several other groups, sued the Trump administration late Wednesday for what it alleged is the “unlawful dismemberment” of the Bears Ears National Monument.

The president moved on Monday to shrink that monument by 85 percent and cut another, Grand Staircase-Escalante, by about half. Both are in Utah.

The Daily Camera reported that Access Fund and Patagonia are joined by co-plaintiffs Utah Diné Bikéyah, Friends of Cedar Mesa, Archaeology Southwest, Conservation Lands Foundation, the Society for Vertebrate Paleontology and the National Trust for Historic Preservation.