Man shot to death while working on car
A man working on his car in a parking lot outside an Aurora apartment complex was fatally shot Thursday night in an apparent drive-by shooting, 9News reported.
Witnesses told police that a group of men got out of two cars that pulled up to the parking lot near East Montview Boulevard and Fulton Street about 9 p.m. They started yelling at the victim, then someone shot him.
The victim was taken to the hospital, where he died. His name wasn’t released Thursday night.
Officer treated after helping bust meth lab
A Thornton police officer was treated at a hospital late Wednesday after helping bust a working methamphetamine lab.
Police spokesman Matt Barnes said the officer was overcome by fumes while searching containers in a shed. He complained of chest pain, shortness of breath and a bad taste in his mouth, Barnes said. The officer was treated at the hospital and released.
The bust happened around 9:30 p.m. Wednesday when police got a call from residents in a mobile-home park at 2100 W. 100th Ave. saying some people were breaking into an unoccupied home. The officers arrived, found a meth-making operation inside the mobile home and arrested two people.
Heidi Lynn Anderson, 35, and Ronald Edward Galvin, 38, are being held on suspicion of burglary, unlawful manufacture of methamphetamine and possession of meth-making chemicals.
Brown part of U.S. delegation to Poland
President Bush has asked University of Colorado president Hank Brown to go to Poland as part of a U.S. delegation celebrating the 25th anniversary of the Solidarity Movement that helped bring down communism.
Brown, a former U.S. senator who sponsored North Atlantic Treaty Organization expansion legislation that allowed Poland to join NATO, is one of three Americans designated as honorary citizens of Krakow, according to a CU news release.
Brown is scheduled to travel to Poland for the anniversary Wednesday with a delegation led by former Secretary of State James Baker.
The U.S. ambassador to Poland, the assistant secretary of state for European and Eurasian Affairs and others are scheduled to go on the trip to Gdansk.
Suspect in sex case arrested in Las Vegas
James Bertolo, 39, wanted in Aurora and Arapahoe County on 17 counts relating to having sex with children, was arrested by deputy U.S. marshals Thursday night in Las Vegas, said Steve Wallisch, spokesman for the marshals’ Denver office.
Warrants have been issued in Adams and Arapahoe counties against Bertolo.
Wallisch said a Marshals Service task force traced Bertolo to a Dillard’s store in Las Vegas, where he was working under an alias.
When members of the task force approached Bertolo and asked for him by his alias, he stuck out his hand to shake and they slapped handcuffs on him, Wallisch said.
Bertolo was jailed in Las Vegas, awaiting extradition to Colorado.
Limb Preservation clinic changes name
The name didn’t live up to its clinic.
So the widely respected Institute for Limb Preservation has changed its name. From now on, it will be known as the Denver Clinic for Extremities at Risk.
Dr. Ross Wilkins, who helped found the 19-year-old clinic, said he hopes the new name “helps people find us more easily.”
The clinic, within Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center, specializes in treating patients in jeopardy of losing hands, feet, legs and arms to infection, cancer, trauma and other maladies.
Parents sue, alleging son, 8, was molested
The parents of an 8-year-old boy filed a federal lawsuit Thursday against a teenager and the St. Vrain Valley School District, alleging that their son was molested at the Longmont Recreation Center.
The incident occurred April 1 in the men’s locker room while the boy was changing clothes after swimming in the pool, according to the suit.
The 8-year-old was on spring break at the time.
The teenager, then 15, used force to repeatedly subject the boy to explicit inappropriate sexual contact, the suit says.
The victim’s parents are suing the parents of the teen, the St. Vrain Valley School District and two district employees who were assigned to supervise the teenage boy.
Latino/a Center gets $2.5 million grant
The Latino/a Research & Policy Center has gotten a $2.5 million grant to continue and expand its cancer prevention and control efforts in 11 Colorado communities.
The five-year grant was awarded by the National Cancer Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health.
According to the center, Hispanic women in Colorado have a rate of invasive cervical cancer almost three times that of Anglo women.
The center works to reach Hispanic people to promote cancer awareness and screening.
