Tag: Colorado Department Of Regulatory Agencies
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Governor calls on Pueblo coroner to resign after discovery of 20 decomposing bodies in his funeral home
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save PUEBLO • Black birds flew over Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter’s funeral home as the tall building loomed over those who passed by Friday. The scene followed a 36-hour period of law enforcement learning that the Davis Mortuary, co-owned by Cotter and his brother, Chris,…
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Davis Mortuary investigation: Polis asks for coroner’s resignation, declares disaster emergency
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save PUEBLO • Gov. Jared Polis on Friday called on Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter to resign immediately amid a multi-agency criminal investigation that’s underway after state inspectors found “around 20” decomposing bodies hidden inside a private funeral home owned by Cotter during an annual inspection. Polis…
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Latest: Pueblo County coroner, brother under investigation after decomposing bodies found at their funeral home
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save PUEBLO — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation, Pueblo Police Department and the FBI converged at a funeral home co-owned by Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter and his brother, Chris, on Thursday after State inspectors found several bodies hidden during an annual inspection on Wednesday. Stay…
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Criminal investigation begins after ‘around 20’ decomposing bodies found in funeral home owned by Pueblo County coroner
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save PUEBLO – A multi-agency criminal investigation is underway after state inspectors found “around 20” decomposing bodies hidden inside a private funeral home owned by Pueblo County Coroner Brian Cotter during an annual inspection. Brian Cotter, 64, and his privately-owned funeral home are under investigation after state…
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Man sentenced in 39-year-old Lone Tree murder case
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A packed Douglas County courtroom was silent as a nearly four decade-long cold murder case came to a close on Thursday afternoon. Michael Jefferson, 67, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit first-degree murder and was sentenced to 32 years in prison — the maximum number…
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Families accuse ex-Colorado Springs evaluator of tainting bitter custody case with biased testimony
Some of the cases involve allegations of sex assault and drug abuse.
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Parental evaluator’s 40-year career brought to end after complaints about sex videos, price gouging
Thomas Meehan had a 40-year career in the parenting evaluation industry that finally came to an end after a string of complaints that ranged from accusations of price gouging to obsessive focus on a woman’s sexual history with her husband. In September 2019, he agreed to permanently relinquish any license to work as a social…
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Thousands of Colorado patients put in peril due to risky prescribing of psych medicine
Gene Estes implored his son, Shayn, to go to the emergency room that day, fearful he was having another reaction to his psychiatric medication. Shayn was forgetful, dropping things throughout the day, combative and disoriented during simple conversations. “I wanted him to see any doctor available,” Estes said. Gene was worried the dosage was off…
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CDOT supervisor: ‘We don’t do things here that comply with the rules’
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save On Dec. 14, 2018 at 3:51 p.m. John Olson, an appraisal supervisor for the Colorado Department of Transportation, sent an email to an employee he managed. At issue was the employee’s urgent complaint that proper appraisal procedures weren’t being used by “good ole boys” at…