Students plan Capitol walk today for illegal immigrants
Students from across the metro area are expected to walk out of school this morning and march to the state Capitol to show their support for rights for illegal immigrants.
In a letter sent to the media on Tuesday, students organized as “United Youth for Immigrant Rights” announced that a diverse group of students will participate in the walkout.
They asked that Denver Public Schools educators support them by sharing the contributions made by immigrants.
The group is expected to convene on the west steps of the Capitol at 11 a.m.
Denver police said the walkouts are expected to cause delays on Speer Boulevard, from Federal Boulevard into downtown, and north on Speer Boulevard from Eighth Avenue into downtown.
The intersection of Colfax Avenue and Speer Boulevard also is likely to experience traffic delays. The march will then proceed from Speer and Colfax to the grounds of the Capitol. Students plan to meet at the Capitol to show unity and will march there from several staging areas.
JEFFERSON COUNTY
Receipt theft prompts alert for consumers
Anyone who patronized several restaurants and a fitness center on March 6 is being asked to examine their credit card and bank statements for unauthorized use after Jefferson County deputies encountered two people with receipts from a courier truck.
Officials said investigators have identified Mimi’s Cafe in Loveland, the Yardhouse restaurant in Lakewood at Denver West and 24-hour Fitness centers in Thornton, Green Mountain and Broomfield as being among the missing receipts.
However, investigators believe there may be more than two dozen other businesses whose daily receipts were taken.
People who find unauthorized charges on their statements for March 6 or receive mail or credit cards with someone else’s name should call investigator Chris Nelson, 303-271-5695.
DENVER
Fight halts light rail, sends one to hospital
A fight on the corner of 26th and Welton streets about 8 p.m. Tuesday sent one man to the hospital in “bad” condition, another to jail and interrupted light-rail service, said police spokesman John White.
It wasn’t immediately known how many might have been involved in the disturbance, but the injured man was apparently hit on the head with a “pipe or metal tube,” White said. One man was arrested and police were still looking for other possible suspects.
“It’s too early to say” if the incident is gang-related, White said.
The Regional Transportation District sent buses to the area because they could get by the crime scene while the light-rail cars could not, said RTD spokesman Scott Reed.
An RTD bus also took several potential witnesses to the police station for questioning.
AURORA
Police identify victim of apartment shooting
A man found shot to death in his Aurora apartment Sunday night was identified as 20-year-old Renauldo Dionisio Cadogan.
Neighbors at the Bristol Village apartment complex in the 17100 block of East Ohio Place called police about 10 p.m. when they heard several shots fired.
Investigators have not identified the shooter.
Anyone with information is asked to call Detective Tom Sobieski at 303-739-6710.
DENVER
Former CU-Denver official gets probation
Margaret “Midge” Cozzens, a former administrator at the University of Colorado at Denver, who pleaded guilty in March to first-degree official misconduct for crafting a series of illegal payments to two former colleagues, was sentenced Tuesday to six months of unsupervised probation.
She has paid $12,000 in restitution to the school and resigned her tenured position.
Cozzens and former assistant vice chancellor Mary Lou Fenili were indicted in November. The indictment said that in December 2002, the school offered severance agreements to employees in an effort to cut costs. Shortly after that, however, the university rescinded the severance agreements but Cozzens directed payments be made to two employees despite the reversal of policy.
AURORA
Cambodian New Year shooting victims ID’d
Two men shot and killed Saturday night after a Cambodian New Year celebration were identified as Quoc Phan, 28, of Thornton and Christopher Le, 22, of Westminster.
The men were killed in the parking lot of the Holiday Inn near Interstate 70 and Chambers Road about 11:35 p.m.
Police are looking for people who were riding in a late model, dark-colored Ford F-150 truck that was seen leaving the shooting.
COLORADO
3 museums share in conservation grants
The federal agency that funds the nation’s museums and libraries on Tuesday awarded more than $2.7 million in grants for “critical conservation” at U.S. museums, including three in Colorado.
The Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services said that the Denver Art Museum, Colorado Museum of Natural History and the Center of Southwest Studies at Fort Lewis College in Durango received more than $325,000 to preserve and survey artifacts and artwork.
DENVER
Task force may urge drug court for county
A city task force charged with unclogging Denver’s jails today will consider urging Mayor John Hickenlooper to spend $600,000 this year on a county- level drug court.
Denver Councilman Doug Linkhart said the drug-court proposal is one of a number of recommendations that the Crime Prevention and Control Commission will consider forwarding to Hickenlooper when it meets today. Linkhart is a member of the commission.
The commission – a group of city officials, citizens and justice officials – has been appropriated $1.2 million to spend annually. Hickenlooper has the final say on how that money gets spent.
