Police chase in Jeffco ends with three-vehicle accident
A police chase through south Jefferson County ended with a three- vehicle wreck when the fleeing vehicle attempted to run a red light at South Kipling Street and West Remington Avenue late Sunday afternoon, Jefferson County sheriff’s spokesman Jim Shires said.
The three youths in the fleeing GMC crew-cab pickup were taken to local hospitals, Shires said. Their conditions were unknown. No one else was injured.
The Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call on a cellphone about 5 p.m. that several cars had been broken into at an apartment complex in the 7400 block of South Quail Way, Shires said. The witness provided a description of a pickup possibly being used by the suspects, he said.
“As deputies got into the area, they saw a truck matching the description and followed it,” Shires said.
The truck “took off” and the deputies pursued the truck at speeds reaching 65 mph from South Quail to West Ken Caryl Avenue, then to Kipling, where the chase turned south, he said.
“The deputies and supervisors, taking into consideration the traffic and the weather conditions, for safety reasons terminated the chase at South Kipling and West Chatfield Avenue,” Shires said.
About 10 seconds later, the truck collided with the other vehicles, he said.
The entire incident, from the 911 call to the accident, lasted about 11 minutes, he said.
Evidence, possibly from the car break-ins, was scattered along the pursuit route after either falling or being thrown from the truck, he said.
BOULDER COUNTY
Woman attacked by her own guard dog
A rural Boulder County woman has been hospitalized after a dog she was using to guard her herd of alpacas mauled her.
Officials say the woman, who raises the animals on her ranch near Nederland, suffered injuries to her face and throat. Her name hasn’t been released.
Officials say the woman brought home two Anatolian shepherds just four days before the attack. The dogs are bred for guarding livestock from wildlife.
Neighbor William Otto said the 80-pound male dog attacked the woman after she entered a pen containing the alpacas and dogs. Sheriff’s Sgt. Greg Schumann said the woman’s injuries aren’t life-threatening.
PAONIA
Officials notified of possible suit in blast
An attorney for members of a family who were injured when an explosion ripped through a mountain lodge in March, killing three children, has notified government officials of a possible lawsuit.
Grand Junction lawyer Keith Killian said the case could allege that a lack of building codes in Delta County contributed to the March 20 blast. He declined to elaborate.
“I am not going to be in a position where I’m accused by the defendant or the judge of attempting to try the case through the media,” Killian said.
Likely defendants could be Delta County and the state. Killian said the lodge is outside Paonia town limits, and the town will not be listed as a defendant.
Killed in the blast were Leslie Ann Bilbrey, 12; Isaac Michael Watkins, 2; and Jamie Marie Reade, 16. All were part of the same extended family that included lodge owners Michael and Nancy Hughes.
GREELEY
Mom gets community corrections program
Renee Polreis, who was convicted in 1997 of beating her adopted 2-year-old son to death with wooden spoons, has been placed in a community corrections program, authorities said.
Polreis, who was serving 18 years in prison for child abuse resulting in death, has been on intensive supervised parole since January, when the Weld County Community Corrections Board approved her application to the program in a 6-2 vote.
Polreis has maintained that her son David, adopted from a Russian orphanage six months before his death, suffered from reactive attachment disorder.
Some experts say the disorder occurs in adopted foreign children who have difficulties accepting affection.
Her husband, Dave Polreis, died in January of cancer. The couple’s other adopted son is believed to be living with another relative, the Greeley Tribune reported Sunday. In a June 2000 hearing in which Polreis asked a judge to reduce the 22-year sentence she initially had received, she testified that David had difficulties from the time she and her husband met him at the orphanage and that a matron there showed them how she controlled him by throwing her arm and leg over him to restrain him.
