Bomb squads from the Jefferson County and Eagle County sheriff’s offices cleared The Block Hotel & Commons on Friday evening, several hours after town officials posted an alert about an “active threat” and evacuation at the hotel at 491 Rainbow Drive at 2:18 p.m.

Silverthorne officials evacuated the hotel, the River’s Edge Condominiums and the Summit Blue subdivision and issued a shelter-in-place order, which was lifted at 4:25 p.m.

“No credible threat was found in the building and there is no threat to the public,” Silverthorne officials said.

Bradley Lindsey, 37, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault on Aug. 19, court records show.ĚýThe plea deal dropped attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault and second-degree assault — strangulation charges.

A 61-year-old man told Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies in November 2024 that Lindsey came into the home where he was living, hit him in the head with a hatchet four to five times and choked him until he passed out, according to an arrest affidavit. The man said he didn’t know Lindsey, but knew he lived nearby.

The owner of the home in the unincorporated town of Kittredge told deputies he let Lindsey, whom he didn’t know, into the home after Lindsey knocked on the door. Lindsey told the owner he planned to go downstairs and “take care of” the victim, who was a tenant in the home in the process of being evicted for not paying rent, the affidavit said.

The homeowner told deputies he didn’t hear any disturbance after Lindsey went downstairs, and the next thing he remembered was deputies coming to the home and arresting Lindsey.

Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies were sent to the home after a 911 caller reported Lindsey walked up to him and said, “if you hear gunshots, call the cops,” before walking into a nearby home, the affidavit states.

Lindsey is set to be sentenced on Oct. 23.

Cynthia “Cindy” Monroe, 60, faces charges of felony third-degree assault and misdemeanor child abuse, Jefferson County court records show. The charges stem from an incident on April 16 where Monroe allegedly grabbed a and dragged her by the arm.

School staffers told investigators that Monroe had become increasingly frustrated with the student in recent months, and surveillance video from the school showed that Monroe dragged the girl for about 10 feet before another paraprofessional intervened and helped the girl to her feet.

Another staff member who witnessed the incident said it looked like Monroe could have popped the girl’s arm out of her socket and added she had seen Monroe give the girl “little arm yanks here and there.”

Monroe appeared “agitated and annoyed” on the surveillance video and was shaking her head after the incident, investigators wrote in the affidavit.

The girl had a red mark and abrasion on her arm that appeared to be from a fingernail, and she told investigators getting dragged hurt and made her body sad.

Monroe later told sheriff’s officials that her lack of training around children with developmental disabilities was to blame for the incident, but she agreed that “any reasonable person would know you don’t drag a kid down the hall,” according to the complaint.

Monroe was hired as a paraprofessional at Ute Meadows, which is in Ken Caryl, in 2009 and shifted to a special education paraprofessional position in 2014, a spokesperson for the school district said in an email to The Denver Post.

School district officials placed Monroe on administrative leave after learning of the investigation, and her employment later was terminated, the district spokesperson said.

As required by state law, all employees Ěýby the Colorado Bureau of Investigation and the FBI before hire, according to the school district. Monroe’s background checks were clear when she was hired, the spokesperson said.

A warrant was issued for Monroe’s arrest in the incident on June 22, court records show. She appeared in court last month and posted a $5,000 personal recognizance bail.

Monroe is next scheduled to appear in court for an arraignment on Aug. 31, according to court records.

Anyone with information about Monroe or the incident can contact the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office at 303-980-7300.

As of 8:50 a.m., southbound U.S. 285 had reopened between Colorado 8 and Parmalee Gulch Road, near Morrison, .

One vehicle was involved in the fatal crash, . Additional information about the crash was not immediately available on Thursday.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

Steven Cole Simpson, 25, faces charges of first-degree murder and attempted first-degree murder in the road rage shooting that killed Andrew Luke Bott, 23, court records show.

Bott was a passenger in a blue Ford F-150 suspected of fleeing from a collision involving several cars in Littleton on July 25, Jefferson County sheriff’s officials said.

The driver of the pickup truck, a 20-year-old man, allegedly collided with Simpson’s white BMW X5 SUV on southbound Santa Fe Drive near Arapahoe Community College, and Simpson started following him, according to a news release from the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

The Ford driver told investigators that a white SUV hit his truck and that he fled after Bott saw the SUV driver holding a gun, according to Simpson’s arrest affidavit. He told investigators that he later heard shots and saw Bott slump over. He could not describe the driver of the SUV, according to the affidavit.

Simpson told police that a third vehicle was involved in the crash, according to the affidavit. He said the truck hit a sedan while trying to merge, causing the sedan to hit his SUV.

Simpson’s passenger called 911 to report the collision shortly before 10:30 p.m., as Simpson pursued the truck west on Bowles Avenue and into the Grant Ranch neighborhood, the affidavit stated. They relayed the Ford’s license plate to dispatchers, who told the pair to stop following the pickup truck.

Simpson claimed he stopped following and went straight home, according to the affidavit.

But investigators reviewing the 911 call heard Simpson say what sounded like “He’s going to die” before two noises believed to be gunshots, according to the affidavit. After the suspected gunshots, Simpson can be heard on the recording agreeing to go home, the affidavit stated.

The driver of the Ford called 911 at about 10:32 p.m., but initially hung up, according to the district attorney’s office. When dispatchers called the number back, the driver said another vehicle was chasing him and that his passenger, Bott, had been shot, the release stated.

Investigators believe Simpson fired several times at the Ford near Grant Ranch Boulevard and West Bowles Avenue, striking Bott in the head, officials with the district attorney’s office said.

Paramedics took Bott to the hospital, where he died shortly after midnight, investigators said.

Simpson’s passenger, his 26-year-old wife Corryn Simpson, was also charged with being an accessory to first-degree murder, according to Jefferson County court records.

In a search of the couple’s home, investigators found ammunition matching the casings found at the scene of the shooting, according to the affidavit. Several firearms were seized from the home and tested, but the results of that test were not immediately available on Thursday.

Both of the Simpsons are next scheduled to appear in court for a preliminary hearing on Sept. 2, court records show.

The driver of a blue Ford F-150 pulled into the parking lot at Columbine High School shortly after 10:30 p.m. Saturday, according to a news release from the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office. Paramedics took his injured passenger, 23-year-old Andrew Bott, to the hospital, where he later died.

Bott was hit when someone fired multiple times at the Ford, the driver told deputies. As of Monday, the driver had not yet been publicly identified.

Investigators believe the fatal shooting is related to an earlier hit-and-run in Littleton, where a blue Ford F-150 reportedly struck several vehicles near South Santa Fe Drive and West Belleview Avenue and fled the scene, according to the .

The hit-and-run happened just minutes before the shooting was reported, sheriff’s officials said.

One of the hit-and-run victims called police to report he was following the Ford, sheriff’s officials said. Police told him to stop following the vehicle and issued a “be on the lookout” alert to nearby law enforcement for the Ford.

Sheriff’s officials did not answer questions about whether that driver was being investigated as a suspect in the shooting.

The shooting happened near Grant Ranch Boulevard and West Bowles Avenue, roughly 3 miles away from the initial hit-and-run, according to the sheriff’s office.

Investigators are asking anyone who traveled along West Bowles Avenue between South Santa Fe Drive and Grant Ranch Boulevard between 10:25 p.m. and 10:35 p.m. on Saturday to contact investigators at 303-271-5612 or by email at jcsocrimetips@jeffco.us.

Drivers with dash cameras and residents and businesses along the corridor are also asked to review their surveillance video to see whether it captured any part of the incident.

As of Monday afternoon, no arrest had been made, according to the sheriff’s office.

Two people were interviewed Sunday night while investigators executed a search warrant at a Highlands Ranch home, officials said, but additional information about that search was not available.

This is a developing story and may be updated.

The boating accident happened at 5:45 p.m. when a group of adults and juveniles were boating and towing a tube on the reservoir when strong winds caused the tube to overturn, sending three juveniles into the water, agency officials said.

The three children were wearing life jackets but some began to struggle, and a man jumped in to help and went under. The children were rescued by boaters.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office initially reported the man was on the tube with the children when it overturned.

Sheriff’s officials identified him as 48-year-old William “Sonny” Macaluso and said he was an experienced swimmer and not wearing a life jacket when he went in the water.

Rescue crews from Colorado Parks and Wildlife and South Metro and West Metro fire rescues searched the reservoir until 9 p.m., when it got too dark, and resumed searching Friday morning. Macaluso’s body was recovered at around 1 p.m., after 19 hours of searching, state officials said.

CPW is investigating the incident as a boating accident.

Weather spotters reported multiple tornadoes in eastern Colorado on Wednesday evening as two supercell storms moved across the region, NWS meteorologist Maggie Ideker said.

The first storm in Logan County sparked multiple reports east of Sterling starting at 6:13 p.m. Wednesday, though it’s not clear if it was two or three separate tornadoes or the same tornado that touched down and came back up multiple times, Ideker said.

A second supercell in northeast Weld County produced a tornado near the Pawnee National Grassland, which a weather spotter reported at 7:42 p.m.

“Unfortunately we don’t know how strong they were because we have not received any reports of damage, and how we rate the strength of tornadoes is based on damage they produce,” Ideker said.

Roughly 6.5 miles southeast of Fleming in Logan County, residents of Dailey reported 3-inch hail at 7 p.m. Wednesday, according to the weather service’s severe storm reports .

That’s about the size of a teacup, sitting between 2.75-inch hail the size of baseballs and 4-inch hail the size of softballs, , which is part of the same federal agency as the weather service.

Any larger than 1 inch across, the size of a quarter, is considered “severe,” according to the storm lab.

Other severe hail reports from Wednesday night’s storm, according to the weather service, include:

• 1.5-inch hail near Berthoud at about 7:45 p.m. That’s the size of a walnut or a ping pong ball.
• 1.75-inch hail near Brush at about 8:45 p.m. That’s the size of a golf ball.
• 2-inch hail near Fort Morgan at about 4:20 p.m. That’s the size of a hen egg.
• 2.5-inch hail near Proctor, roughly 20 miles northeast of Sterling, at about 6:15 p.m. That’s the size of a tennis ball.

On the other side of Denver, the overnight storms brought “significant rainfall” and flooding to Jefferson and Clear Creek counties, .

The storm hovered over Evergreen for roughly two hours and dropped an estimated 6 inches of rain, sheriff’s officials said. Water levels above Evergreen Lake exploded from 12 cubic feet per second to 1,200 cubic feet per second. Below the lake, in Morrison, water levels on Bear Creek went from 6 cubic feet per second to 1,890 cubic feet per second, according to the sheriff’s office.

Sheriff’s officials shared a video of the flooding along Colorado 74 in Kittredge, where deputies waded through high water and around downed trees, patio furniture and logs to check on residents.

No one reported any injuries in the flooding, the sheriff’s office said.

Cactus Jack’s Saloon and Grill of water rushing down Bear Creek in Evergreen at 11:51 p.m. Wednesday. The next morning, the restaurant showing flooding inside and on its patio.

“Muddy debris remains visible across multiple roadways, and some entrances to Jefferson County Parks and Open Space areas may be affected,” sheriff’s officials stated. “Several residents have also reported flood damage to their homes.”

An unspecified number of bridges in Evergreen were damaged or washed out, .

The storms were severe enough that Red Rocks Park and Amphitheatre in Morrison .

Heavy rain also caused several rockslides along a stretch of U.S. 6 through Clear Creek Canyon, shutting down the highway in both directions between Floyd Hill and Golden until road crews cleared away the debris on Thursday afternoon.

The highway through Clear Creek Canyon reopened at around 1:30 p.m. after falling debris closed the road in both directions between Colorado 119 near Floyd Hill and Colorado 93 near Golden, according to the and Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.

UPDATE: Crews were cleaning up US Highway 6 after multiple rockslides blocked the road overnight. The highway is now back open.

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captured some of the rockslides, showing waves of dirt and debris spreading from the rocky walls surrounding the highway to both lanes of travel.

The storm dropped between 1.5 and 3.5 inches of rain in the Evergreen area, which also caused Bear Creek to surge and damage several bridges, .

Cortez “Tez” D’Angelo Dennis took a deal and pleaded guilty on Feb. 17 to pimping, a felony, according to Jefferson County court records. That deal dropped a second felony charge of human trafficking for sexual servitude from his case.

Dennis, 32, was sentenced to six years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for the pimping charge, court records show.

The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office after an undercover officer set up a meeting with two women through an ad on Secret Hostess, a commercial sex website. When the women showed up to the meeting at a house in the 1600 block of South Golden Road on Jan. 22, 2025, they were met by sheriff’s officials and victim advocates.

Both women identified Dennis as their pimp, sparking a months-long investigation, according to his arrest affidavit. One of the women told investigators she had been “recruited” into prostitution when she was 14 years old.

Investigators traced Dennis’ operations to a house in the 4500 block of South Jebel Court in Centennial, the address of which was linked to his Venmo account, according to the affidavit.