Tag: Cocaine
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Denver police arrest two brothers in connection with Monday LoDo shooting
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Denver police arrested a pair of brothers in connection with a shooting in LoDo Monday evening. Joseph Valdez, 18, and Randall Valdez, 22, were taken into custody hours after the incident on suspicion of several charges, including attempted first degree murder and felony menacing, according…
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Fort Carson soldier suspected of cocaine distribution linked to DEA raid of illegal nightclub
A Fort Carson staff sergeant who was present at an illegal nightclub during a large-scale federal raid Sunday morning was arrested on suspicion of cocaine distribution Wednesday by the FBI. Juan Gabriel Orona-Rodriguez, 27, is facing one federal count each for distribution and for possession with intent to distribute, connected to his alleged involvement in…
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Appeals court clarifies defendants’ ability to claim they unknowingly ingested drugs
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Colorado’s second-highest court clarified on Thursday that not every criminal defendant’s claim that they mistakenly ingested a different drug than the drug they thought they were taking will enable them to argue they were “involuntarily intoxicated.” An El Paso County jury convicted Karl Jeran Friday Williams in 2022 after he walked through a Colorado Springs neighborhood…
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16 members of JeffCo drug ring indicted after $5 million worth of narcotics seized
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Sixteen suspects were indicted on 116 felony charges after a nine-month-long investigation by the West Metro Drug Task Force. The investigation began as a drug distribution case involving methamphetamine and counterfeit oxycodone pills with fentanyl, according to a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office (JCSO) news release Thursday. Further investigation led the task force to information about…
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Aurora drug dealer sentenced to 23 years in federal prison
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An Aurora woman will serve 23 years in federal prison for running a large-scale drug operation, the U.S. attorney’s office announced Sunday. Judge Raymond Moore sentenced Candelaria Vallejo-Gallo, 43, on Friday for conspiracy to distribute and possess with intent to distribute methamphetamine, cocaine, fentanyl and…