2 in custody may be serial bank robbers
Authorities believe they have captured two serial bank robbers following an undercover operation that ended in a shooting on Friday.
Fabrizio Rosero, 44, and Richard Kim, 27, face federal charges of being felons in possession of firearms, but agents think they are “Checkerboard Chuck” and “Tommy Two Glasses,” suspects in a series of heists in October.
Rosero bragged to an undercover Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms agent that he was responsible for six bank robberies from Fort Collins to Colorado Springs, according to court records. He also said he was willing to shoot a victim who resisted and would kill a witness if needed.
Kim told agents he had committed six robberies with Rosero, the records say.
The undercover investigation was conducted by ATF agents from the Denver office.
The operation ended in a shooting Friday near a Lakewood shopping plaza in the 100 block of Union Boulevard. The men thought they were on their way to commit a robbery with a third man who actually was an undercover ATF agent, the court records say.
As Kim was being arrested, he reached into his waistband for a loaded Ruger 9mm pistol, according to an affidavit.
Matt Horace, acting special agent in charge of the ATF in Colorado, said the move for the weapon prompted the shooting.
Passenger killed in crash identified AURORA — A 23-year-old passenger killed in a suspected drunk-driving crash was identified Monday as Jessica Marie Padilla.
Randell Elce Springer, 29, of Lakewood, has been arrested on suspicion of vehicular homicide in the case.
At about 3:15 a.m. on Wednesday, Springer was driving a 1998 Mazda pickup truck on Interstate 70 near Interstate 225 when he lost control and slammed into a barrier, police said.
Investigators suspect that alcohol and speed were factors in the crash.
Man charged with murder in 1979 beating in church– A man has been charged in the 1979 fatal beating of a woman at a church, prosecutors said Monday.
James Scott, 46, was charged with first-degree murder after deliberation and first-degree felony murder in the death of 19-year-old Martha Guzman, the Denver District Attorney’s office said in a news release.
Guzman was attacked Oct. 17, 1979, in a church at 3401 Bryant St. and died several days later from her injuries, the release said. Scott had been arrested on a 1995 sexual assault, and the cold case unit linked him to Guzman’s attack, prosecutors said.
He is being held in without bail and scheduled to be in court Wednesday.
Hunter gored by shot deer
WASHINGTON — State wildlife officials say a hunter was gored by a wounded deer that he or his companion had just shot in northwest Colorado.
Division of Wildlife spokesman Randy Hampton says the incident occurred Sunday about 15 miles south of Craig.
The hunter’s name hasn’t been released. Hampton says the man’s injuries appeared to be significant.
The hunter has been taken to St. Mary’s Hospital in Grand Junction.
