Tag: Arvada Police
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Vehicle collides into patrol car, fire engine in Arvada
A vehicle crashed into a fire engine and patrol car in Arvada on Wednesday morning, sending a police officer to the hospital, according to the Arvada Police Department. Icy roads caused the vehicle to lose control just after 11 a.m. on the Interstate 70 flyover near Wadsworth Boulevard. The patrol car and fire engine were…
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Colorado Healing Fund activated for third time in 2021
For the third time in less than a year, the Colorado Healing Fund activated Tuesday to collect donations to help the victims, and their families, of the Denver and Lakewood mass shooting that left five dead Monday. The Fund was formed in 2018, with the help of a $1 million grant from the Attorney General’s…
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Warning triggered hunt for Arvada gunman minutes before shooting
Minutes before he was gunned down by Ronald Troyke, Arvada policeman Gordon Beesley had been at the shooter’s apartment after a family report that the 59-year-old was “going to do something crazy,” investigators revealed. Arvada police say they received the warning from Troyke’s brother at 12:49 p.m. Monday, about 45 minutes before the incident that…
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Arvada shooting | New developments: ‘Samaritan’ who died is identified by police
Details slowly emerged Tuesday in Arvada, where a police officer, a Good Samaritan and an alleged gunman died in a shooting in the Olde Town neighborhood a day earlier. The story so far: Arvada Police identified the officer as Gordon Beesley, a 19-year veteran who was a school resource officer at Oberon Middle School. The…
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NEWS | Coworkers, friends remember Fallen Arvada Officer Gordon Beesley
Coworkers and friends gathered in Olde Town Arvada Tuesday to remember Fallen Officer Gordon Beesley. Officer Beesley was a school resource officer at Oberon Middle School. (Video by Katie Klann)
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NEWS | Neighbor of Arvada shooting suspect describes the scene at apartment complex
Neighbor of the Arvada shooting suspect describes what she experienced in her apartment complex Monday.
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Slain Arvada policeman Gordon Beesley was calm presence on chaotic Denver music scene
Gordon Beesley never should have been in a band, The Railbenders frontman Jim Dalton once said. “He’s just too good for this crazy world.” But Beesley was in a band – several of them, in fact, before finding his true calling as an Arvada police officer in 2002. Beesley was killed in the line of…
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Series of threats to northern Colorado high school lead to arrest
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One juvenile is in custody after several “threats of violence” to Ralston Valley High School were reported to law enforcement officials using the state’s Safe2Tell reporting model, the Arvada Police Department said. One juvenile detained for investigation of threats against students staff and faculty at Ralston Valley High School. RV will be open and off…
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Man arrested in Arvada for threatening to kill 94-year-old woman, fighting her grandson
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A man with an extensive criminal history is in custody after threatening to kill a 94-year-old woman and assaulting her grandson in Arvada on Monday. Anthony P. Niccoli, 30, is currently being held charges of menacing and third-degree assault, according to online court records. Since 2015, Niccoli has been accused on seven assault charges. He…
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Podcasts stir new sex abuse allegations against former Irish Olympic swim coach in U.S.
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The American immigration and criminal status of a former Irish Olympic swimming head coach, who moved to the U.S. after being charged with dozens of instances of sexual assault of athletes he coached — and whose…