POLICE: ATTACKS ON HOMELESS ARE SIMILAR
Golden police investigated an attack Wednesday on two homeless people near the Colorado School of Mines.
The attack mirrors an assault in the same area earlier this year, and police believe they are connected. The attacker in both cases yelled, “Get out of my city,” as he struck victims and, in at least one incident, used a stun gun to shock a victim, according to a news release from the Golden Police Department.
Two men on Wednesday told police that a white male assaulted them near 14th Street and Jackson Street with a blunt object as he yelled comments such as “get out of my city.” Both men suffered non-life-threatening injuries, police said.
In a January attack, two homeless people were injured. One was hit in the back of the neck with a blunt object, police said, and the suspect tried to shock the victims with stun gun. The suspect also allegedly said, “get out of my city.”
Police described the suspect as a white male between 25 and 40 years old with blue eyes. He is 5-foot-8 to 5-foot-10 and 140 to 160 pounds.
Climber rescued by helicopter.
A climber who suffered life-threatening injuries in a 200-foot fall near the Fourth of July Mine in the mountains of Boulder County was rescued Tuesday by a Colorado National Guard Blackhawk helicopter.
Emergency responders flew to the area in a Flight for Life helicopter and hiked about a quarter mile to the injured climber, the sheriff’s office said. The man had slid about 150 to 200 feet down a steep snow field.
The climber, a man from the Boulder area in his early 30s, suffered multiple serious injuries, the sheriff’s office said. He was hoisted into the Blackhawk and then transferred to the Flight for Life helicopter and taken to an area hospital.
Guilty plea in death of father, daughter.
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COLLINS» A Colorado man has pleaded guilty to killing a father and daughter in a car crash.
The Coloradoan reported Wednesday that 20year-old Marcos Orozco pleaded guilty to two counts of second-degree murder Tuesday.
Authorities say 38-yearold Nicole Nees of Fort Collins and 55-year-old John Nees of Cedar Rapids, Iowa, died in the November 2018 crash in Fort Collins.
Authorities say Orozco used a stolen truck to break into a pawn shop to steal two AR-15 rifles and one AK-47 rifle on Thanksgiving. Police say later that morning Orozco was driving the same vehicle in the multi-car accident that killed the Neeses.
Dumping trash leads to ticket.
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Federal officials say they have ticketed a Denver woman for dumping a large pile of roofing material and other trash on public land in Wyoming.
Investigators said Monday that 31-year-old Idalia Reyes-Cruz faces a $780 fine if convicted.
The U.S. Bureau of Land Management says one of its employees found the trash May 13 near Farson in western Wyoming. BLM investigators say a water bottle with a name written on it and discarded invoices led them to Reyes-Cruz.