Tag: Mexico
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Man sentenced for killing police officer in 2005 applies for early release
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On Oct. 26, 2006, then 21-year-old Raul Gomez-Garcia was convicted and sentenced to 80 years in prison for the murder and attempted murder of two Denver Police Department detectives. Nearly 20 years since the shooting, Gomez-Garcia, a Mexican national, has applied to receive early parole through Colorado’s Department of Corrections Program for Juvenile Offenders, according…
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I-25, I-70 corridors made Denver target for car theft ring
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The intersection of Interstate 25 and Interstate 70 put Denver in the cross hairs of a car theft ring linked to the Sinaloa drug cartel in Mexico. Denver’s highly populated metro area is a natural target for cartels but it’s the freeway corridors that draw criminal activity, according to David Olesky, assistant special agent in charge at the…
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Semi driver arrested in fatal Highway 285 crash had been removed from US multiple times, ICE says
Ignacio Cruz-Mendoza was arrested after his truck went off the road and dumped its load of pipe and angle iron on top of five other vehicles
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DEA links Mexican cartels to drugs in Colorado and Denver’s fentanyl epidemic
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Agents from U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration’s Rocky Mountain Field Division on Thursday seized more than 50,000 pills of fentanyl and more than 50 pounds of methamphetamine in metro Denver, one of the biggest drug busts this year so far. Little else is known about the details of the operation. What authorities told The Denver Gazette,…
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DA files murder charges against Federal Heights stabbing suspect
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The 17th District Attorney’s Office filed first-degree murder charges against a suspect in a Federal Heights stabbing that left one woman dead. The man is still missing and police believe he may be heading for the Mexico border. Officers are still searching for Adrian Carracedo-Vega, 35, in connection to a stabbing that occurred on Dec.…
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Casa Bonita’s executive chef teams up with food bank to provide hundreds of tamales to local kids
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save When the Food Bank of the Rockies hands out over 1,500 meals a day to local children through 60 Colorado after-school meal sites, they try to keep child-like cuisine and cultural staples in mind. “We do our best to listen to what the kids want.…
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Aurora mayor signs sister city agreement with Chihuahua, Mexico
Aurora Mayor Mike Coffman signed a sister-city agreement Thursday with the city of Chihuahua, Mexico’s Mayor Marco Bonilla Mendoza. Aurora chose to sister with Chihuahua due to the significant number of immigrants from Mexico who call Aurora home, Coffman told The Denver Gazette while in Mexico Friday. “There’s a strong cultural tie between the city…
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Catrinas in my city: A head start for Day of the Dead in Denver
Los Angeles artist brings Dia De Los Muertos to Denver
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Racism concerns mark Aurora City Council sister city discussion
Councilmember Juan Marcano praised Aurora Sister Cities International and its Mexico Committee for building relationships with Chihuahua, Mexico
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Aurora City Council sees tensions flare in ‘Sister Cities’ discussion
While members of the Aurora City Council discussed a potential ‘Sister Cities’ partnership between Chihuahua, Mexico and Aurora, tensions began to flare as members voiced opposition to the measure based on crime levels in Chihuahua and Mexico as a whole. Two members appeared to laugh and turn off their cameras while a representative of Sister…