ARAPAHOE COUNTY
Body found in landfill beneath trash, debris
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a body found in the Waste Management Landfill on South Gun Club Road on Saturday morning.
A landfill supervisor called the sheriff’s department about 10:55 a.m. after an employee observed what appeared to be a deceased human body, partially covered with trash and debris. The body was discovered in an area of the landfill used by commercial trash haulers. The gender, age and race could not be determined.
Authorities believe the body was placed there earlier in the day.
BOULDER
Missing computers at CU list personal data
Two computers that held students’ names, Social Security numbers and grades are missing from the University of Colorado Leeds School of Business, CU said Friday.
The business school was sending letters to 1,372 students and former students to warn them about identity theft.
CU realized the computers were missing last month while unpacking equipment that was stored in May. No reported cases of fraud or identity theft have resulted from the missing computers, CU said.
University officials said they are unsure whether the computers were stolen or misplaced.
In 2005, CU began eliminating the use of Social Security numbers and other personal information in cases where the information was not necessary.
DENVER
Single-car accident kills two on I-70
Two 18-year-olds, a male and a female, were killed early Saturday morning when one of them lost control of a 2000 Oldsmobile while exiting westbound Interstate 70 at Quebec Street, according to Denver Police.
The single-car accident occurred at 4:26 a.m. when the vehicle, traveling on I-70 at a high rate of speed, ran off the left side of the Quebec exit ramp, traveled down an embankment and rolled over, police said.
The passenger was ejected and landed in a tree, 30 feet above the ground, Detective Virginia Quinones said. The driver was trapped in the car.
The victims’ names were withheld pending notification of relatives.
SANTA ROSA, Calif.
County to investigate handling of Karr case
The Sonoma County sheriff has launched an internal investigation into its handling of the John Mark Karr case.
The focus: a computer bearing pornographic images seized five years ago from the home of the one-time JonBenét Ramsey murder suspect.
The computer was taken from Karr’s home in 2001, when the former substitute teacher was charged with five misdemeanor counts of possessing child pornography.
He fled before his trial, but was arrested again last month in Thailand after suggesting he killed the 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen in 1996. DNA proved he was not involved.
Karr on Thursday rejected a plea deal that would have allowed him to walk out of jail free if he agreed to plead guilty to two of the five charges, serve three years of probation and register as a sex offender. His trial is scheduled for Oct. 2.
STATEWIDE
Colorado spinach OK to eat, officials say
State agricultural officials issued an advisory Saturday that it is now safe to eat fresh spinach grown in Colorado.
State-grown spinach is not related to the produce implicated in the E. coli 0157:H7 national outbreak.
