Tag: handgun
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Magistrates, lawyers discuss youth, guns and responses to school safety
Adams County Magistrate Michal Lord-Blegen was a school administrator in Aurora when two teenagers killed 13 people and themselves at Columbine High School in 1999. The massacre was a lens through which she viewed her subsequent work as a principal and as a lawyer. “We’ve got a lot of kids with guns,” said Lord-Blegen earlier this…
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Two Colorado Springs convenience stores robbed at gunpoint early Monday
Colorado Springs police are investigating two early Monday convenience store armed robberies that took place under similar circumstances, law enforcement officials said. At about 12:45 a.m., officers responded to a call about a robbery at a store in the 1700 block of Jet Wing Drive, police said. Investigators determined that two suspects, one of whom…
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Federal judge bars gun evidence in criminal case due to Denver police’s unconstitutional search
A federal judge last week barred the government from using evidence from a man’s backpack in his prosecution for illegally possessing a weapon, following a Denver police officer’s unconstitutional search. The Fourth Amendment’s prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures requires that law enforcement obtain a warrant or rely on a specific exception to the warrant…
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Man brings handgun into El Paso County courthouse
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A man with a handgun made it past security at the El Paso County courthouse due to an error at security Wednesday morning. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said that the man, who was at the courthouse on “official business,” brought the gun through…
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Man brings handgun into El Paso County courthouse
A man with a handgun made it past security at the El Paso County courthouse due to an error at security Wednesday morning. The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said that the man, who was at the courthouse on “official business,” brought the gun through security in a bag. The gun was flagged during screening,…