Police have identified a suspect in a fatal stabbing of a man early Saturday in the 2800 block of Osceola Street. Police are searching for Landon Paul Chavez, 27, who is about 5 feet 10 inches and weighs about 170 pounds.
Ricky Ortega was rushed to St. Anthony Central Hospital, where he died from his wounds, Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson said.
The stabbing happened about 3 a.m., but police did not reveal many details about what led to the attack.
– Manny Gonzales, The Denver Post
Two suspects id’d in fatal shooting at home friday
Denver police on Sunday identified two suspects in a fatal shooting that happened late Friday at a home at 4519 Josephine St.
Investigators are searching for Eduardo Borboa-Espinoza, 31, also known as “Mike,” and Ponciano Verduzco-Cervantes, 38, who also goes by “Chucky” or Ricardo.
Police spokesman Sonny Jackson said Borboa-Espinoza and Verduzco-Cervantes were arguing with a resident at the home when one of them allegedly pulled a gun and shot the man.
No information on the victim was available.
Borboa-Espinoza is 5 feet 8 inches, weighs 170 pounds, has short black hair and a jaw-line beard and was last seen wearing matching off-white cowboy boots and hat, a large belt buckle and a plaid shirt.
Verduzco-Cervantes is 5 feet 6 inches, weighs 150 pounds and has brown hair and green eyes.
The suspects were last seen in a green or gold Jeep Grand Cherokee with Colorado license plates 246OIG, police said.
Paradise marketed for Christmas
Livingston, Mont. – Department store chain Neiman Marcus is offering 10 acres in Montana’s pristine Paradise Valley for $2.3 million as part of its 2007 Christmas catalog of “fantasy gifts.” The land – located in the 11,000-acre Ameya Preserve – is listed alongside a $1.4 million two-person submarine and a $35,000 giant dragon topiary.
Brewery spreads its sewage load
Bayfield – Steamworks Brewing Co. has found a way to reduce the amount of waste it sends to the overburdened, outdated Bayfield sanitation system.
The brewery is taking yeast and effluent to a private landowner, who dumps the nitrogen-rich waste on pastureland. Leftover malt goes to a nearby rancher with longhorn cattle.
The state imposed a sewer-tap moratorium in Bayfield last year to relieve the town’s overloaded sewage lagoons. Steamworks was among five businesses and institutions identified as “high load” contributors to the septic system and forced to make reductions. The brewery has spent an estimated $100,000 to install additional settling tanks, a secondary grease trap and other improvements.
Potty thieves may feel let down
Colorado Springs – Thieves who took a truck in Seattle may have looked a little flushed when they found out what was in the back: a 7-foot-high, 7-foot-long soapbox racer shaped like a toilet.
Five friends built the racer in Colorado Springs for an event in Seattle in late September. It was stolen when the truck it was sitting in was swiped from their hotel parking lot late last month.
Neither the truck nor the toilet shaped racer has been found.
John Denver foundation struggled
Snowmass – Ten years after singer-songwriter John Denver died in a plane crash, the environmental foundation he co-founded is surviving, albeit on a shoestring budget.
Denver and Tom Crum launched the Windstar Foundation in 1976. It went dormant after Denver died Oct. 12, 1997, near Monterey, Calif., but has slowly been rebounding.
“When John was alive, naturally people were more inclined to donate to Windstar,” Denver’s brother, Ron Deutschendorf, told The Aspen Times on Thursday.
“When I say, ‘Hi, this is Ron Deutschendorf,’ it doesn’t have the same effect.”
