BOULDER – Missing Marine Lance Cpl. Lance Hering did not report to Camp Pendleton, Calif., on Monday as he was scheduled to, a camp spokesman said Tuesday.
However, Hering is still not classified as being unauthorized absent, the Marines’ version of being AWOL. Marine spokeswoman Lt. Amanda Freeman said in an e-mail that Hering’s status has not been decided, though she declined to say why.
Hering has been missing since Aug. 29, when he left his parent’s home in Boulder to purportedly go climbing with a buddy. That friend, Steve Powers, later said Hering had fallen while climbing, and when rescuers got to where Hering had supposedly been hurt, the Marine was gone.
However, Powers later told authorities that Hering was OK and that he and Hering had hatched the story to get Hering out of having to return to the Marines. Hering had recently returned from a seven-month tour in Iraq.
Boulder County sheriff’s Cmdr. Phil West said Tuesday that investigators have uncovered no new leads about Hering. He said investigators haven’t been able to confirm much of Powers’ story and haven’t ruled out that Hering was the victim of foul play.
FORT COLLINS
Man arrested in probe of apartment invasion
Authorities arrested a suspect Sunday in connection with a home invasion that occurred last week at a Fort Collins apartment.
Police said that Tyrone Gilbert, 24, and three male juvenile suspects entered an apartment in the 200 block of West Prospect Road on Friday and robbed a group of seven people there at gunpoint.
Gilbert allegedly grabbed a man around the throat and placed a gun to the back of his head as he forced his way into the apartment, police said. He and the other suspects then forced occupants to empty their pockets and place their belongings into a paper bag, police sad.
The suspects were believed to be looking for drugs and cash, police said in a news release.
Gilbert faces felony charges of aggravated robbery and kidnapping, police said. Three 16-year-old juvenile male suspects have been interviewed, released to their parents and are facing the same charges.
DILLON
Rites for legislator
scheduled Saturday
A memorial service for Colorado Republican legislator Bryan Sullivant, who drowned Sept. 9 in Lake Dillon, will be held at 10 a.m. Sept. 23 at the Lake Dillon Amphitheater in Dillon.
A former intern for Republican Sen. Bob Dole, Sullivant, 51, served three terms as a Colorado state representative and was appointed to one term as a state senator.
Sullivant, an ardent “smart growth” advocate, was named 1996 Legislator of the Year by Ski Country Colorado USA, and received the Conservation Voters’ Green Sense Award in 1998. His political career ended in 2000 when he withdrew from his state Senate campaign, saying he needed a job with more income than a legislator’s $30,000 pay.
Donations should be made to Summit County Dive Rescue or the Summit County Search and Rescue Team.
GARFIELD COUNTY
Man arrested in case of child porn, drugs
Garfield County Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested a New Castle man last week on suspicion of sexual exploitation of children and drug possession.
Frank P. Alameno, 57, was arrested after investigators executed a search warrant at his home and seized pornographic materials, suspected methamphetamine and cocaine, police said. The pornography included explicit sex acts involving young and pre-pubescent children, according to a release from Garfield County Sheriff Lou Vallario.
Alameno has been charged with sexual exploitation of children, possession of a schedule II substance, tampering with physical evidence, obscenity and possession of drug paraphernalia, police said.
Alameno was released from jail after posting a $100,000 bond.
DENVER
Oil and gas panel OKs decibel limits on noise
The Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission adopted noise regulations Tuesday requiring operators to obey decibel limits.
Commission officials said Michigan is the only other state in the nation that regulates noise through its state oil and gas regulatory agency.
“Our new noise regulations for oil and gas operations are among the most stringent and comprehensive in the country,” said Peter Mueller, commission chairman.
Under the new rules, operators must not exceed 55 decibels during the day and 50 decibels at night.
FORT CARSON
Ohio soldier killed in
noncombat incident
An Ohio soldier based at Fort Carson died in a noncombat incident in Baghdad, the Defense Department said Tuesday.
Sgt. James R. Worster, 24, of Broadview Heights, Ohio, died Monday. No details of the incident were released, but the military said it was under investigation.
Worster was assigned to the 43rd Area Support Group’s 10th Combat Support Hospital.
Fort Carson spokesman Roger Edwards said Worster’s death brings to 170 the number of soldiers from the post who have died in Iraq, including nine from the 43rd Area Support Group.
DEBEQUE
Slide cleanup on I-70 to keep lanes closed
Traffic on Interstate 70 through Debeque Canyon at the site of a fatal weekend rockslide will most likely remain in a two-way, single-lane configuration until at least Sept. 29, highway officials said Tuesday.
A CDOT contractor will work through the weekend and into next week blasting sections of rock on the sandstone and shale hillside.
Twelve-foot width restrictions are in place through the detour. Highway officials advise motorists to drive slowly.
A pickup truck towing a trailer rear-ended a school bus, injuring two students, the Wyoming Highway Patrol said.
The crash happened when the bus was dropping off a student on Four Mile Road around 3 p.m. Monday.
Two students were taken to United Medical Center-West, said Tom Rooney, director of support operations for the Cheyenne school district.
Rooney said Tuesday that the students were released from the hospital later Monday.The bus was carrying Carey Junior High School students.
— Information from: Wyoming Tribune-Eagle, AP-WS-09-19-06 1210EDT
