La Junta – The City Council has voted 4-3 to ban pit bulls within city limits, although owners meeting certain conditions will be able to keep existing pets.
Owners who are least 21 can keep their pit bulls but must register them with the southeastern Colorado city by Dec. 1, provide proof of liability insurance, have the pet spayed or neutered, post a sign that says a pit bull is on the property, and confine the pit bull to the owner’s property, among other rules. Pit bulls could be put down if owners are found in violation of city ordinances.
The ban was approved last week.
Council member Billie Johnson, who proposed the ordinance last month, noted that vicious attacks by pit bulls have happened in Pueblo, Colorado Springs and metro Denver.
Heather Maes said she was disgusted that the ban was passed. She had presented the City Council with 271 signatures of opponents of rules targeting specific kinds of dogs.
“There are proven statistics out there that show it is not a dog breed that is vicious. It’s all how you raise and train a dog,” she said.
NORTHGLENN
Driver of SUV that hit man along I-25 sought
Police are looking for the driver of a dark-color Ford or Dodge sport utility vehicle who struck a pedestrian who was walking along southbound Interstate 25 on Friday night.
Michael Sintas, 43, was walking on the side of the highway when he was hit.
The SUV probably has damage to the passenger side and a missing side mirror.
A nurse stopped to give Sintas CPR at the scene of the crash. He was hospitalized with injuries.
Witnesses to the accident say a man and a woman stopped on the side of the road after the accident but left as police arrived.
ARVADA
Meeting will advise of predator’s address
The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office will host a meeting today to inform the community that a sexually violent predator was released to live in the area.
Timothy E. Schreiber, 46, was released Friday. Schreiber was convicted of two counts of attempted sexual assault on a child in 2000 and of multiple counts of indecent exposure between 1994 and 2005, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said.
The meeting will be at Drake Middle School, 12550 W. 52nd Ave., from 7 to 8 p.m. The Sheriff’s Office does not advise that people bring children to the meeting, and children younger than 15 will not be allowed to attend without an adult.
Schreiber will live in the 13400 block of West 54th Avenue temporarily. The Sheriff’s Office will also circulate a flier in accordance with its policy of actively notifying citizens of sexually violent predators.
ADAMS COUNTY
Crash delays woman on way to give birth
A pregnant woman on her way to the hospital to have her baby was delayed Sunday afternoon when she was involved in a four-car accident in Adams County.
The accident began when a chair fell out of a truck on eastbound Interstate 76 at Pecos Street.
No one was injured, but the pregnant woman was taken by ambulance to St. Anthony Central Hospital to deliver her baby.
STERLING
Fire at apartments displaces 40 residents
Sterling firefighters responded to a fire at an apartment complex for the elderly and disabled late Sunday afternoon.
The fire started in the second story of the three-story McGregor House, 441 McGregor Road.
Two people were taken to the hospital with minor injuries.
About 40 residents have been displaced because of extensive smoke and heat damage to the second floor.
The cause of the fire is still under investigation, Sterling Fire Chief Bob Olme said.
JACKSON, Wyo.
Sheriff probing death of Colo. hitchhiker
Authorities say they’re in the early stages of an investigation into the death of a Colorado man who apparently died near Rock Springs, Wyo., in June while hitchhiking to Jackson.
A body found last week at the Boars Tusk, outside Rock Springs, has been tentatively identified as that of Benjamin William Bradley, 29, of Tabernash.
Bradley worked seasonally in the Jackson Hole area and was last seen by a witness in Rock Springs on June 2. He called friends that evening to say he was about two hours from Pinedale, authorities say.
“Right now, it is the initial stages of the investigation,” Capt. Michael Dayton of the Sweetwater County Sheriff’s Office said Friday. “We are running down a huge number of leads.”
