TWO AURARIA OFFICERS HIT, INJURED BY FLEEING DRIVER
A driver pulled over on the Auraria campus Wednesday crushed a campus officer’s motorcycle and injured two campus officers as he fled in an SUV.
The incident happened about noon in a parking lot west of the Tivoli Student Union, said Blain Nickeson, Auraria Police Department spokesman.
An officer stopped the driver for going the wrong way down a one-way street. The driver, who had pulled into a parking spot, handed over his license. An officer’s motorcycle was parked behind the SUV. The officer determined that the driver was wanted on an arrest warrant, Nickeson said.
Other officers arrived. When they attempted to have the suspect get out of the SUV, the driver shifted the vehicle into reverse and “gunned it,” Nickeson said.
One officer was hit by the SUV, and another was dragged by the vehicle, said Sonny Jackson, a Denver Police Department spokesman. The two officers were taken to Denver Health with injuries that are not life-threatening.
The driver was arrested at his residence in the Capitol Hill area.
Civil War flag returned to Maine museum after being stored in Colorado.
An American flag that a Maine regiment brought into battles in Louisiana and Texas during the Civil War has returned to its home state.
The torn and tattered 156-year-old flag has been delivered in a wooden frame to the Maine Military Museum.
The flag will be on display as part of an exhibit on the 15th Maine Volunteer Infantry Regiment.
The regiment carried it into battle in 1863, and it later became the first Union flag to fly over Texas shores during the war.
The flag had been stored for years at the home of a Colorado woman who was married to the regiment commander’s great-grandson.
The woman donated the flag after her husband’s death five years ago.
Fort Lewis College to start program for transfers from New Mexico’s San Juan College.
N.M.» Fort FARMINGTON,
Lewis College is set to start a new scholarship transfer program for graduates of San Juan College in New Mexico.
The Farmington Daily Times reported the Durango college is launching this fall a program for San Juan College graduates that could award them with a merit-based scholarship to pay in-state tuition rates.
Currently, New Mexico students who graduate with an associate degree and have a 3.0 GPA can apply for the New Mexico Reciprocal Scholarship.
San Juan College students starting in the fall 2019 semester with a GPA of 2.75 or higher can apply to transfer to Fort Lewis College at the in-state tuition rate.
Some trails to remain closed due to heavy snowpack.
ASPEN» The U.S. Forest Service says some trails in the Aspen area might not open until well into the summer, if at all, because of heavy snowpack and avalanche debris.
The Aspen Times reports that Aspen-Sopris District Ranger Karen Schroyer said Tuesday that the biggest questions exist for the Conundrum Trail and parking lot southwest of Aspen.
The area was buried by a massive slide off Highlands Ridge during an intense storm in March.
Schroyer says that Pitkin County Road and Bridge workers estimate the Conundrum Trailhead is buried under about 40 feet of snow.
Schroyer says a decision about Conundrum Trail’s status for the summer could be made as soon as this week.
Schroyer says she doesn’t know when Maroon Creek will be open, either.
Man kills self after five-hour standoff.
N.M.» Authorities FARMINGTON, say a five-hour standoff between a man barricaded inside a home and federal and local law enforcement officers ended when the man killed himself.
The Farmington Daily Times reports U.S. marshals and San Juan County deputies tried to arrest 50-year-old David Valenzuela on Monday.
Valenzuela was wanted on charges of aggravated assault and domestic violence in Ignacio.
Authorities say Valenzuela fired at officers after they breached the house and announced their presence. One woman exited the home, but another woman and Valenzuela stayed inside.
Authorities later fired gas cans into the home to try to force them out. The second woman exited, but Valenzuela did not.
Authorities deployed a robot after hearing a possible gunshot and found Valenzuela dead.
Police arrest juvenile in shooting death of teen.
AURORA» Police have arrested a juvenile male in the shooting death of a teen.
Police say the suspect was arrested without incident Tuesday night, but they did not say what charges the suspect faces.
Police have not released the suspect’s name because he is a juvenile.
The Arapahoe County coroner’s office identified the victim Wednesday as 16-year-old Jeremy J. Rudolph, who died Monday of a gunshot wound to the head. — Staff and wire reports