Tag: Pueblo Police Department
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Governor calls on Pueblo coroner to resign after discovery of 20 decomposing bodies in his funeral home
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
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
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
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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Pueblo man arrested for attempted tampering in primary election
Police arrested a Pueblo man on Thursday for allegedly trying to tamper with a voting machine during Colorado’s primary election in June. Richard Patton, 31, was booked into the Pueblo County Judicial Center on charges of tampering with a voting machine and cybercrimes, according to the Pueblo Police Department. Patton was arrested without incident at…
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Pueblo man sentenced to 10 years in prison for firearms charge
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Pueblo man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for possessing a firearm as a previous offender in a plea deal after allegedly he shot and wounded a man, the U.S. Attorney’s Office…
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Police say a man died at a Pueblo Hospital following an altercation with hospital security
The Pueblo Police Department announced Friday that an investigation into a suspicious death at a Pueblo hospital has been upgraded to a homicide. Pueblo officers were dispatched to St. Mary Corwin Medical Center at 6:30 a.m. on Feb. 10. and located medical staff providing care to 36-year-old Matthew H. Jones, according to a Pueblo Police…
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Pueblo’s Riverwalk vandalized by anti-Columbus signs; suspects at-large
A popular Pueblo attraction was the target of vandalism over the weekend and now police are searching for the suspects. The attached photos are of the suspects and persons of interest in the felonious crime. If you have any information, please contact Detective Colbert at 719-553-2478. pic.twitter.com/YncHerXjar — Pueblo Police Dept (@PuebloPolice1) April 27, 2021…
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U.S. attorney: White supremacist sentenced for plotting to blow up Pueblo synagogue
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A self-described neo-Nazi and white supremacist was sentenced to nearly 20 years in federal prison Friday for plotting to blow up a Pueblo synagogue, according to a release from the Justice Department. Richard Holzer, 28,…