JUVENILE ACCUSED OF HAVING GUN AT HIGH SCHOOL
JUNCTION» A juvenile GRAND was arrested Wednesday after he was allegedly seen with a gun at Central High School in Grand Junction, authorities said.
The juvenile is not a student at Central, according to the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office.
About 1:40 p.m. Wednesday, deputies responded to the school on a report of a boy with a gun. Students and staff members sheltered in place at the school, and police were brought in as a precaution.
As part of the investigation, deputies learned that the suspect had a possible connection to Grand Junction High School, which also was put on heightened security, the news release said.
Men killed in Colorado avalanche were trying to leave area. VAIL» An avalanche took the lives of two people who had turned back to avoid a dangerous area, a report said.
The Feb. 15 avalanche north of Vail killed Dillon Block and Cesar Almanza Hernandez, the Vail Daily reported Tuesday.
Block, Hernandez and a companion who was not identified were riding in the backcountry on lowangle slopes and in meadows and were avoiding steeper slopes, the Colorado
Avalanche Information Center report said.
They were operating snowbikes, which are off-road motorcycles modified for use in the snow.
After riding into a creek bottom in the afternoon, the riders entered an open area and turned around to head back.
An avalanche started and the third rider was able to ride into nearby trees, but Hernandez and Block were buried in the slide, the report said.
Volunteers worked to free Block and Hernandez until responders with Vail Mountain Rescue Group arrived at the scene around 9 p.m.
“Given the time elapsed, darkness, increasing snowfall and no easy way to evaluate the avalanche danger above the site, the group left and returned to the Red Sandstone trailhead,” the report said. A Vail Mountain Rescue Group team returned the next morning to recover the bodies.
Two found dead in Utah crash were missing Colorado couple.
SALT LAKE CITY» Authorities say the remains of two people found in a wrecked car in a ravine in eastern Utah are those of a Colorado couple missing since October.
The Deseret News reported that a highway worker found 38-year-old Matthew Batterton of Pueblo and 51-year-old Risa Johnson of Colorado Springs dead off the side of Interstate 70, about 2 miles from the Colorado state line, on Feb. 18. They were last seen Oct. 8 traveling on Interstate 80 in Richfield.
Utah Highway Patrol Sgt. Nick Street said Batterton’s cousin called dispatchers in late October to report that Batterton was headed to Las Vegas to pick up drugs and had been missing for three weeks.
Street said that because of the victims’ criminal histories, including Batterton being a known drug trafficker, investigators will look specifically for the presence of suspicious circumstances involving the crash.
Numerous driver’s licenses, bank cards and a Social Security card that did not belong to Batterton or Johnson were found in the wreck, which was not visible from the interstate. No drugs were found.
Army has destroyed half of mustard agent.
PUEBLO» The Army has destroyed about half the 2,600 tons of mustard agent contained in decades-old shells stored at a chemical depot.
Walton Levi, the site project manager of the Pueblo Chemical Depot, made the announcement Wednesday.
The plant started operating in September 2016 and has eliminated more than 220,000 munitions.
The depot is eradicating 780,000 shells filled with thick liquid mustard agent under an international treaty banning chemical weapons.