SAUDI YOUTH RESCUED AFTER TUMBLE FROM FIRST FLATIRON
BOULDER» A 17-year-old Saudi Arabian boy was visiting his sister in Boulder when he fell from a rocky slope on the First Flatiron in Boulder County and injured himself Wednesday night, authorities say. The teenager, whose name has not been released, was treated at a hospital for minor injuries.
He was scaling the First Flatiron when he lost his footing and fell about 30 feet, according to a sheriff’s news release.
Rescuers from several agencies responded, including sheriff’s deputies, firefighters, Rocky Mountain Rescue climbers and an American Medical Response ambulance.
Man sentenced to five years for marijuana grow on federal land.
A man has been sentenced to five years in prison for growing thousands of marijuana plants on an island in the Colorado River.
U.S. Attorney Bob Troyer’s office says 33-year-old Santos Ramirez-Carrillo pleaded guilty to conspiracy to manufacture and possess with intent to distribute 50 or more marijuana plants.
According to court records, Ramirez-Carrillo and another man began living and working on the island near DeBeque in May 2017 and worked with other people to grow marijuana in the area, including on federally owned land.
Authorities searched the island in September and arrested Ramirez-Carrillo and another man, Santos Ramirez-Alvarez, at a campsite. Agents found more than 9,100 plants.
Louisville mountaineer dies in avalanche on Pakistan mountain.
A Louisville man was killed during the weekend when his three-man mountaineering expedition was caught in an avalanche on a mountain in northern Pakistan.
Karrar Haidri, secretary of Alpine Club of Pakistan, said mountaineer Christian Huber was killed when an avalanche hit the climbers’ tent Friday night during a strong storm at a height of 6,455 yards on Ultar Sar Peak in the Hunza Valley.
Officials said the other two mountaineers in the group, Bruce Normand and Timothy Miller, suffered injuries but were safe. Helicopters were being sent to rescue them.
Remember those ducttaped bottles thrown in the Roaring Fork River? Police found porn, bodily fluids and bleach but no meth.
Law enforcement officials may never know why a man threw 35 duct tape-wrapped plastic bottles into the Roaring Fork River.
Although police suspected the bottles were being used to manufacture meth, on Monday, prosecutor Tony Hershey said the bottles contained “pornographic pictures” and “bodily fluids” in addition to household chemicals.
He theorized Ricardo Parras-Membreno had religious reasons for his behavior and was trying to “cast away” something.
Public defender Molly Owens, Parras-Membreno’s lawyer, called her client’s behavior “a habit” and said he did not intend to pollute the river or hurt anyone but did not provide a reason for the bottle dumping. “He was essentially disposing of some trash,” Owens said. “It may have been culturally influenced. He now understands the importance of not behaving that way in the United States.”