CU student found after fall in ditch
BOULDER — A 22-year-old University of Colorado student spent seven to eight hours in calf-deep water in a partially frozen ditch near Sixth and Pleasant streets before being found by a municipal worker Monday morning and rescued by Boulder firefighters.
The student, identified by police as Grant Munski, said he had been drinking the night before and fallen into the ditch around 2:30 a.m., Boulder police and fire spokeswoman Kim Kobel said.
Munski was found in the mouth of a culvert in Anderson’s Ditch a little after 10 a.m. by a worker with Lafayette Water, who was checking the ditch maintained by the city of Lafayette.
The worker “saved his life,” Kobel said. “He was not in a place where he could be easily seen. If this person had not found him, he could have been there for days.”
Former CU athletes found not guilty in heist
Two former University of Colorado track athletes who were accused of burglarizing a University Hill home were found not guilty by a Boulder County jury.
Quinton Elgin Dodson and Aaron Jaron “A.J.” Whitaker were charged with first-degree burglary and theft, both felonies, and third-degree assault, a misdemeanor, in connection with an April 8 break-in.
A CU student told Boulder police he heard his bedroom door squeak at around 1:30 a.m. and saw someone pulling a $5,000 bike out the door. He yelled, grabbed the bike by the seat and engaged in a “tug-and-pull game” with the robber. The man holding the bike let go and ran, but when the resident tried to grab the man, someone else started hitting him.
The student told detectives he was missing his $300 PlayStation, two iPods, $62 in cash from his wallet, his $600 iPhone and a $120 North Face backpack.
Habitual offender gets 320-year term
A Lincoln County man convicted of multiple counts of sexual assault was sentenced Monday to 320 years in prison.
Edward Dockery had also been convicted of three habitual-offender counts, according to a news release from the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s office. Judge P. Douglas Tallman on Monday sentenced Dockery to 64 years on each of five counts of sexual assault and ordered that the sentences run consecutively — one after another, according to the district attorney’s office.
Lincoln County sheriff’s deputies arrested Dockery in 2009. He was accused of repeatedly using force to sexually assault his then-girlfriend between April 2007 and January 2008. Dockery, 46, was convicted at trial last July.
Denver Post staff and wire reports
