Tag: Drugs
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Trump unveils deal to expand coverage and lower costs on obesity drugs
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump unveiled a deal Thursday with drugmakers Eli Lilly and Novo Nordisk to expand coverage and reduce prices for the popular obesity treatments Zepbound and Wegovy. Known as GLP-1 receptor agonists, the drugs have soared in popularity in recent years but patient access has been a consistent problem because of their…
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10th Circuit orders resentencing after government concedes man’s serious probation violation cannot stand
The Denver-based federal appeals court granted an unusual joint request between the prosecution and the defense on Wednesday, directing a judge to resentence a man who was incorrectly found guilty of a severe probation violation. There are multiple classifications of federal probation violations, with Grade C being the least serious and Grade A being the…
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Boulder man sentenced after selling drugs to teenager who fell off of a crane
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Boulder judge sentenced a 25-year-old man to 35 years in prison after he was convicted of selling psilocybin mushrooms to minors, with one falling from a crane while being under the influence of the drugs. Boulder District Judge Dea Lindsey sentenced Benjamin Harmon to…
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State patrol arrests Commerce City man for pointing laser at aircraft
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Colorado State Patrol troopers arrested a man for allegedly pointing a laser at overhead aircraft in Commerce City Thursday night. Jose Alonzo Duarte-Campos, 41, faces multiple charges including a felony of unlawfully aiming a laser device at an aircraft, driving under the influence of drugs and possession of methamphetamine, according to a news release from…
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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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Appeals court orders Jeffco judge to reinstate dismissed drug charges
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Even though nearly seven months passed between the defendant’s arrest and the filing of criminal charges, Colorado’s second-highest court determined a Jefferson County judge was wrong to dismiss the case and ordered him to resume the drug-related proceedings. Under Colorado law, prosecutors are required to…
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EDITORIAL: Idiotic fentanyl law kills another baby
The highest-ranking members of The Gazette’s Fentanyl Hall of Shame own much of the blame for the latest-known fentanyl death of a baby. Topping the Fentanyl Hall of Shame is Republican Rep. Shane Sandridge, R-Colorado Springs. He takes sole “credit” for writing a 2019 bill that made him a darling of the left. The resulting…
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12 accused of smuggling drugs into Colorado jail
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Prosecutors have charged 12 people in connection with a drug trafficking operation in the Larimer County jail. Authorities said fentanyl, methamphetamine and Suboxone strips were smuggled through the mail and distributed to inmates. The Northern Colorado Drug Task Force began investigating in March after a deputy intercepted a letter to an inmate and the paper…
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Man with military background accused of multiple sexual assaults in Colorado Springs
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A 39-year-old man with a military background was arrested last week on suspicion of three counts of sexual assault in Colorado Springs. Leo Sterling has also been named as a suspect in a separate alleged…
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Woman suspected of giving Colorado Springs girls fentanyl after student dies
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Colorado Springs woman suspected of distributing fentanyl pills to two juveniles could face life in prison, a release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Colorado announced Wednesday. Alexis Nicole Wilkins, 26, was accused of giving two girls fentanyl pills in the…