Author: Daniel Chac
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Police: Palmer student darts into traffic, hit by vehicle
A 15-year-old Palmer High School student darting through traffic Thursday afternoon was struck by a vehicle and taken to the hospital with unknown injuries, police said. The student ran between two parked cars on Nevada Avenue just north of Platte Avenue and slammed into the passenger side of a Jeep Wrangler traveling north on Nevada,…
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Forecasters: Storm won’t dent Colorado Springs drought
A spring storm delivered several inches of snow to much of the Pikes Peak region Wednesday, but it won’t put much of a dent in the drought, weather forecasters said. “It doesn’t hurt, but we’re many, many, many inches below normal, so it’s going to take a lot more than this,” said Steve Hodanish, a…
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Time capsule offers window into Springs’ past
Half a century ago, Craig Coupland witnessed history in the making. Coupland was 6 years old when the Historical Society of the Pikes Peak Region buried a time capsule in what was then the new Colorado Springs police building on the corner of Kiowa and Weber streets. The copper box was filled with pictures, books,…
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DOC intelligence officers offer glimpse of prison gangs
DENVER — Colorado’s prison gangs are sophisticated groups with structured rules and an ever-evolving methodology that makes their criminal activity both inside and outside prison walls difficult to track, two Department of Corrections intelligence officers said Friday. “We may generalize and call them gangs but … they’re organized,” Capt. Roseanna Jordan, operations supervisor for the…
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Gang member tied to Clements killing arrested
A white supremacist gang member wanted for questioning in the ambush killing of Colorado’s prisons chief was arrested Thursday in Colorado Springs. Thomas Goulee, who has been called a “person of interest” in the homicide investigation, was taken into custody on an outstanding felony warrant, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said in a news…
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Police: Man accidentally shot himself
Colorado Springs police say a man who arrived at Memorial Hospital Central with a gunshot wound Wednesday night accidentally shot himself. Officers were called to the hospital about 9:47 p.m. on a report of a gunshot victim. “Officers arrived and their investigation revealed the person shot himself in the leg while carrying a pistol in…
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Chemical in CC hazmat incident identified
A chemical incident in a student lab at Colorado College sent 13 people to the hospital Wednesday, including two who had to be pulled out of the building with significant respiratory issues, officials said. Colorado Springs firefighters and hazmat crews rushed to Olin Hall on North Nevada Avenue after 3 p.m. following reports of a…
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Police investigate Colorado Springs shooting
Colorado Springs police were investigating a shooting Wednesday night after a gunshot victim was dropped off at Memorial Hospital Central downtown.Police were called by hospital staff shortly after the gunshot victim arrived at about 9:45 p.m.Details on how the victim was shot and where it might have occurred weren’t available.Officers also didn’t know the patient’s…
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DOC to round up absconders monthly
In the latest move to crack down on parole violators, the Colorado Department of Corrections will start rounding up absconders every month. The new initiative, announced Wednesday, comes on the heels of a new DOC policy requiring parole officers to respond to tamper alerts on parolees’ electronic monitoring bracelets within two hours. The changes are…
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DOC changes parole policy in wake of Clements killing
Colorado’s parole officers now must respond to tamper alerts on parolees’ electronic monitoring bracelets within two hours, the state Department of Corrections announced Tuesday. The new policy is a significant change in how the department handled tamper alerts and comes three weeks after the shooting death of state prisons chief Tom Clements. Evan Ebel, the…