Tag: Fort Lupton
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Arrest made after man fatally shot in Adams County strip club parking lot
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A man was fatally shot in the parking lot of the Player’s Club on Federal Boulevard after getting into an altercation with another man before the shooting, the Adams County Sheriff’s officer said Wednesday. The victim, Jonathan Gulesserian, was found with a gunshot wound in the driver’s seat of a vehicle in the parking lot…
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Gun scare disrupts Court of Appeals visit to Fort Lupton High School
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A planned visit by Colorado’s second-highest court to Fort Lupton High School went awry on Tuesday after the sighting of two students with a firearm triggered a lockout that, in the judicial branch’s telling, could have been avoided if school administrators had temporarily suspended a…
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Former Fort Lupton officer involved in train incident receives 30 month probation
The former Fort Lupton officer who handcuffed a woman in an alleged road rage incident and placed her in a parked police car in the way of an oncoming train was sentenced to 30 months supervised probation Friday. Jordan Steinke was also ordered to perform 100 hours of community service, to be decided by her…
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2 police officers criminally charged in horrific Weld County train collision
Two police officers face charges in a train collision debacle which went viral last month after shocking police body-worn camera video showed the locomotive crashing into a police car with a suspect inside. Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke announced three charges Monday against Fort Lupton police officer Jordan Steinke including criminal attempt to commit…
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‘I had a mishap’: Platteville officer tells supervisor in newly released body cam footage of train collision
A Platteville police officer whose cruiser with a handcuffed suspect in the back seat was struck by an oncoming train said that he didn’t know the woman was inside. That’s according to newly released body worn camera video. “I didn’t know she was in my car,” the officer told investigators on scene immediately after the…
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WATCH: Train hitting Platteville Police cruiser video released
The Fort Lupton Police Department on Friday released some video showing the moments surrounding the crash where a patrol car that was parked on train tracks with a detained woman inside and was struck by a train, according to the Denver Gazette’s news partner 9News. The video is eight minutes long and contains edited portions…
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Weld County man sentenced to nearly 100 years in prison
A judge on Thursday sentenced a 21-year-old Weld County man to 96 years in prison for shooting at two Fort Lupton police officers during an ambush in 2019. Matthew Cotter of Lochbuie shot one of the officers in the face, but the officer survived. Earlier this year, a Weld County jury convicted Cotter of attempted murder…
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Police shoot pit bull attacking smaller dog
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Fort Lupton police shot a pit bull that attacked a smaller dog Tuesday, law enforcement said. Officers responded to the 100 block of Fifth St. where a pit bull ran from a yard and attacked…
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Two law enforcement officials deemed justified in April officer-involved shooting in Weld County
Two law enforcement officials will not face charges after an investigation into an April officer-involved shooting was deemed justified, according to the Weld County District Attorney’s Office. District Attorney Michael Rourke wrote that he came to this conclusion after his office reviewed the investigation into the shooting by by the 19th Judicial District Critical Response…