Creede – A Marine from Creede was killed in Iraq this month, the Department of Defense announced Wednesday.
Sgt. Clinton W. Ahlquist, 23, was killed while conducting combat operations in Anbar province Tuesday, officials said.
He was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, 1st Marine Expeditionary Force based at Camp Pendleton, Calif.
Relatives could not be reached for comment.
According to Camp Pendleton officials, Ahlquist joined the Marines on Aug. 16, 2002. His awards include a Combat Action Ribbon, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Global War on Terrorism Expeditionary Medal, Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, Sea Service Deployment Ribbon and an Army Achievement Ribbon, officials said.
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DENVER
3 charged in attack on mother, daughter
Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey has filed charges against three women accused of attacking a mother and daughter Feb. 13 as they walked past an elementary school.
Yvonne Munoz, 25, is charged with two counts of first-degree assault and two counts of menacing. Ashley Munoz, 21, is charged with first-degree assault, second-degree assault and two counts of menacing. Natasha Munoz, 29, is charged with two counts of accessory to a crime.
Bernadette Vigil, 33, and her 16-year-old daughter were walking in the 800 block of South Lowell Boulevard when a car pulled up near them, police said. The charges allege that the defendants got out of the car and started a verbal confrontation with the victims, which escalated into an attack with a knife and hammer.
DENVER
7 protesters arrested at Sen. Salazar’s office
Denver police arrested seven protesters inside U.S. Sen. Ken Salazar’s Denver office Wednesday night after they refused to leave the building when it closed.
About 15 people gathered in the office, 2300 15th St., at 2 p.m., hoping to address Salazar’s Iraq war policies, police said. After the building closed at 5 p.m., police were called by building management.
The seven protesters were booked on trespassing charges, police spokesman Sonny Jackson said.
DENVER
Suspect tied to rape by earlier case’s DNA
Denver police have arrested a man on investigation of a 2006 rape after crime laboratory investigators matched DNA taken from him in an earlier rape case to the more recent assault.
Jermaine Buskey, 24, was being held on investigation of aggravated sexual assault with a dangerous weapon and aggravated robbery with intent to kill, according to Denver County Court records.
Buskey is alleged to have raped a woman in August at East 15th Avenue and Xenia Street, said Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson.
Buskey is a registered sex offender who served three years in prison for second-degree sexual assault in 1999. He had been arrested three other times on sexual assault counts, Jackson said.
DENVER
2 firms win feds’ OK to test voting devices
Two Colorado companies – Aurora’s iBeta Quality Assurance and Denver’s SysTest Labs – are the nation’s first to receive federal approval to test voting machines.
The U.S. Election Assistance Commission decided Wednesday to accredit iBeta and Sys Test to check voting machine accuracy and reliability against new federal standards.
CENTENNIAL
DA will seek death in killing of witness
Prosecutors in Arapahoe County will seek the death penalty against two men accused of killing a witness in a murder case.
If convicted, Sir Mario Owens and Robert Ray could face the death penalty in the slaying of Javad Marshall-Fields, District Attorney Carol Chambers said Wednesday.
Marshall-Fields was killed in June 2005, along with his fiancée, Vivian Wolfe, just before he was scheduled to testify in a trial on the murder of Gregory Vann. Vann, 20, was gunned down in an Aurora park July 4, 2004.
In January, a jury found Owens guilty of first-degree murder in Vann’s death. Ray has been convicted of accessory in Vann’s murder.
FORT CARSON
Soldier among eight killed in Afghan crash
A Fort Carson soldier was killed when a helicopter crashed in southeastern Afghanistan, the Department of Defense said Tuesday.
Sgt. Adam A. Wilkinson, 23, was among eight killed when the helicopter went down Sunday. Fourteen people on board survived the crash.
The crash remained under investigation, though military officials have said the twin-rotor helicopter was not shot down.
DENVER
Inmate’s suit alleges health care withheld
An inmate who described himself as a bipolar and schizophrenic American veteran filed a lawsuit Tuesday alleging that mental health care was illegally withheld while he was at the Denver jail.
The lawsuit filed by Chris Bernard Hughes in U.S. District Court sought class-action status to represent an estimated 100 to 400 people.
