Author: Zachary Dupont
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New commission creates statewide standards for Colorado jails
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save What set of standards are jails held to in the state of Colorado? Until recently, the answer was none. In 2022, Rep. Judy Amabile, D-Boulder, sought to rectify that by creating the Colorado Jail Standards Commission. The goal of the commission, in Amabile’s words, is…
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Return to Nature Funeral Home owners plead not guilty to federal charges
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DENVER • Return to Nature Funeral Home owners Jon and Carie Hallford pleaded not guilty Thursday to more than a dozen federal fraud charges stemming from the discovery of nearly 200 bodies decomposing inside a funeral home the couple operated in rural Penrose in October. The 15 federal counts pile atop 260 criminal charges at the…
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Colorado teen accused of causing ‘serious life-threatening’ injuries while doing donuts pleads not guilty
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The woman accused of causing serious injuries to several people during a joyride incident last year pleaded not guilty to all charges on Tuesday. Marisol Wentling, 19, faces several counts of vehicular assault after she allegedly tipped a car while doing donuts at a parking lot in southern Colorado Springs, according to previous reporting from…
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Colorado Springs man headed to trial over 8th explosive device-related charge
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The Colorado Springs man accused of creating and detonating homemade explosive devices near downtown last year had an arson charge bound over for trial on Monday afternoon. Edward Kiley, 69, faces eight charges, including arson, criminal mischief, controlled substance possession and several counts of possession or use of explosives or incendiary devices for allegedly creating…
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Accused UCCS shooter claims to be mentally incompetent
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The man accused of killing two people at a University of Colorado Colorado Springs dorm room last month will undergo a competency evaluation, an El Paso County judge ordered on Monday. Nicholas Jordan, 25, is facing two charges of first-degree murder for allegedly shooting and killing Celie Rain Montgomery, 26, of Pueblo, and Samuel Knopp, 24,…
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Man accused of triple homicide in Custer County has new preliminary hearing date
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The man accused of causing the death of three Custer County residents last year has a new preliminary hearing date set after his initial hearing slated for last month was delayed. Hanme Clark, 45, appeared in Custer County court Tuesday morning for a setting hearing to set a new preliminary hearing date. Clark was initially…
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Alleged Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shooter Robert Dear’s case to be heard
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The state-level case of Robert Lewis Dear Jr. — the man who allegedly shot and killed three people at a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood in 2015 — is slated to be heard on Thursday morning. Dear is accused of entering the Planned Parenthood with an assault rifle, shooting and killing three on Nov. 27, 2015. Ke’Arre Stewart,…
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Lily Whitworth sentenced to prison over school shooting threat in Colorado Springs
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KIOWA • Lily Whitworth, the 19-year-old who admitted to planning a mass shooting at a school in Colorado Springs, was sentenced to six years in prison on Tuesday after an Elbert County judge ruled that probation or community corrections would not have been acceptable sentences. Whitworth originally faced several charges of attempted first-degree murder after deliberation,…
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Judge binds over all charges of Return to Nature owner, lowers bond
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An El Paso County judge on Wednesday opted to bind over all 260 charges faced by Return to Nature Funeral Home owner, Carie Hallford. Hallford appeared in court last week for the beginning of her preliminary hearing, when prosecutors presented the bevy of evidence against her and her husband, fellow Return to Nature owner Jon Hallford. …
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Records reveal Return to Nature Funeral Home owner’s long legal history — including Oklahoma
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The owner of Return to Nature Funeral Home, the southern Colorado funeral home raided by law enforcement due to improperly storing more than 115 bodies at their Penrose location, had significant financial and legal problems predating his move to Colorado Springs. The Gazette reported last week…