Author: Carlyn Ray Mitchell
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Extreme Bargains store on Platte is robbed
A man with a knife robbed the Extreme Bargains store at 3112 E. Platte Ave about 4 p.m. Thursday. Employees said the man pulled out a knife and demanded that the clerks fill up a plastic bag with cash. He then ordered employees to the back of the store and ran out the front. No…
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Woman missing; credit card traced to Cripple Creek
Police are searching for a 59-year-old woman who was last seen at her home Monday morning and whose ATM card was last used in Cripple Creek on Monday night. Mary Hucks is described as 5-feet-2 and 190 pounds with black hair and brown eyes. She was last seen by a relative wearing a blue jean…
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Man arrested in theft of dead airman’s effects
One man has been arrested, and one more is sought in connection with the theft of a dead airman’s effects from his widow’s rental car outside an east-side restaurant. Denard Thompson, 29, is suspected of theft by receiving, first-degree criminal trespass and conspiracy to commit felony theft. El Paso County Sheriff’s deputies are looking for…
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Drunken driving suspected in Powers collision
A man was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving Tuesday afternoon after losing control of his car on Powers Boulevard near Dublin Boulevard and rolling across the median into oncoming traffic, colliding with a car carrying a toddler. Benson Hoover, 30, was northbound in a 1998 Nissan Maxima just after 1:30 p.m. when his car…
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Carson soldiers killed in weekend crash identified
Two Fort Carson soldiers killed in a crash early Saturday have been identified by the post as Pfc. Pawl S. Serafin, 28 of Hillsborough, N.J., and Spc. Kale D. Clay , 23 of Boise, Idaho. Two other men were seriously injured in the 5:15 a.m. accident on Colorado 115 near the Army post, said Colorado…
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Monument police chief to kick off campaign for sheriff
Monument Police Chief Jacob Shirk will officially announce his campaign for El Paso County sheriff at 11 a.m. Friday at the Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum. Shirk decided to run two weeks ago after Sheriff Terry Maketa announced he would not run for a third term. On Monday, Maketa changed his mind and said he will…
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Dead airman’s belongings stolen from widow’s car
The personal effects of an airman killed in Afghanistan were stolen from his widow’s car Tuesday outside the Golden Corral near Powers Boulevard. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help to find who stole two laptops, a digital camera, a cell phone, a red Garmin wristwatch with a black band…
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Dead airman’s belongings stolen from widow’s car
The personal effects of an airman killed in Afghanistan were stolen from his widow’s car on Tuesday outside the Golden Corral near Powers Boulevard. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is asking for the public’s help to find who stole two laptops, a digital camera, cell phone, red Garmin wristwatch with a black band and…
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DA: Deputy justified in Wal-Mart parking lot shooting
An El Paso County Sheriff’s deputy was justified in firing a shot at a car speeding toward him in a Wal-mart parking lot in December, the District Attorney’s Office announced today. Deputy Glenn Boarman was in the parking lot at 3201 E. Platte Ave. with other deputies Dec. 18 looking for Joshua Kenyon, who had…
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Sheriff Maketa changes mind, says he’ll run for a 3rd term
El Paso County Sheriff Terry Maketa announced this afternoon he will seek re-election, less than three weeks after saying he would leave public service to pursue other endeavors. Having been “inundated” with calls and e-mails and stopped on the street by people asking him to run for four more years, Maketa said he talked it…