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Douglas County Sheriff’s Office employee Alexis Montoya, 43, was arrested Monday on suspicion of having an inappropriate relationship with an inmate, according to a news release from the sheriff’s office.
Montoya started with the office on Oct. 12, 2023, as a crew leader. On Oct. 20, information that a female employee may have been involved in an inappropriate relationship with an inmate was given to the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, according to the agency.
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CBZ Management, the owner of several dilapidated apartment buildings in Denver and Aurora, has filed a lawsuit against the Colorado Attorney General’s Office aiming to quash investigative subpoenas that had sought records related to its ownership practices.
The suit was filed Friday in Denver District Court by CBZ and several constituent companies that formally own its 11 Colorado properties.
DALLAS — The Rockies have found their second baseman — for 2025, at least.
Colorado agreed to a one-year, big-league contract with veteran Thairo Estrada on Tuesday, a major league source confirmed. The contract is for $3.25 million with a mutual option and a $750,000 buyout. However, if either side declines the mutual option, the Rockies would still have the opportunity to retain Estrada via arbitration for one more year due to Estrada’s Super Two status.
The deal is pending Estrada passing a physical, and the Rockies have not announced a signing.
Mark Feinsand of MLB.com first reported the deal and the contract terms.
Estrada is versatile enough to play around the diamond, but the Rockies plan to use him primarily as a second baseman.
Seventeen people indicted in an alleged car theft ring connected to the Sinaloa Cartel are accused of stealing at least 190 vehicles at or near Denver International Airport and taking them to Mexico to exchange for drugs to distribute in the metro, according to the Denver District Attorney’s Office.
The thefts – usually high-end pickup trucks – occurred between September 2022 and February and cost victims $9.5 million, the DA’s office announced Monday.
A grand injury indicted the suspects on 222 charges related to organized crime, auto theft, drug possession and distribution and identity theft after a yearslong investigation by local, state and federal law enforcement, Denver DA Beth McCann said.
“These indictments should send a message that people who steal cars in Denver will be caught and will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law,” McCann said at a news conference Monday.
Eleven of the 17 suspects are in police custody, and the remaining six are believed to be in Colorado, Texas and Mexico.
The sophistication and coordination of the scheme is “something akin to what we might see in a Hollywood movie,” said David Olesky, assistant special agent in charge for the Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain division.
“These weren’t simply individuals looking to steal a car for a joyride.
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Regrettably, 2024 was a good year for scammers.
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The proposed merger between supermarket giants Kroger and Albertsons foundered on Tuesday after judges overseeing two separate cases both halted the merger.
U. S. District Court Judge Adrienne Nelson issued a preliminary injunction blocking the merger Tuesday after holding a three-week hearing in Portland, Ore.
Later Tuesday, Judge Marshall Ferguson in Seattle issued a permanent injunction barring the merger in Washington after concluding that it would lessen competition in the state.
A decision is pending in Colorado on a lawsuit against the merger.
Kroger and Albertsons in 2022 proposed what would be the largest grocery store merger in U.