Author: Mackenzie Bodell
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DEA raid in Colorado Springs nets five ICE arrests amid Mexican drug cartel allegations
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The Drug Enforcement Administration executed two search warrants Thursday morning at an apartment complex in eastern Colorado Springs that was allegedly being used to distribute drugs by Mexican cartel members, the agency said. According to Kameron Korte with the DEA, the raid on the Village East Apartments on Hathaway Drive resulted in a handgun and “distribution amounts”…
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Return to Nature: Carie Hallford enters plea deal, remains a ‘liar’ to one family
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DENVER • Carie Hallford, who was ready to go to trial on more than a dozen counts of wire fraud connected to a case of deception that resulted in the decomposition of nearly 190 bodies at the Return to Nature Funeral Home, entered a guilty plea in federal court Monday while accepting a deal that…
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4th Judicial district attorneys disqualified in Springs Rescue Mission stabbing case due to ‘extreme’ statements
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A statement made by one of the prosecutors in a Springs Rescue Mission stabbing case resulted in both him and the 4th Judicial District Attorney’s Office being taken off the case, an El Paso County judge ruled Tuesday. Rocky West, 34, is facing a single first-degree murder charge after allegedly killing Isaiah Curtis Plair, 25,…
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Colorado Springs eyed for ICE detention centers, federal documents show
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Colorado may soon be home to six new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement facilities, including two in Colorado Springs, according to federal documents recently obtained by the American Civil Liberties Union. The ACLU made the announcement late Wednesday after the organization filed a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit in April requesting ICE to identify facilities for…
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Return to Nature: Jon Hallford appeals 20-year federal prison sentence
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Return to Nature co-owner Jon Hallford is appealing his 20-year federal prison sentence handed down last month by a Denver judge, court records show. Jon and Carie Hallford face both state and federal charges related to their funeral home business, which came under a multi-agency investigation in October 2023 after nearly 190 decomposing bodies were…
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Colorado Springs fire personnel deployed to Texas to assist with flood disaster
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Several members of Colorado Springs Fire Department were scheduled to leave for Texas Monday night to aid in rescue and recovery efforts after flash flooding killed more than 100 over the Fourth of July weekend. Just after 3 p.m., the Colorado Task Force announced on social media it has been activated and will be sending…
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Former Colorado Springs deputy district attorney, church leader avoids prison time in child sex assault case
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A former deputy district attorney and Colorado Springs Mormon church leader accused of sexual assault on a child avoided prison time but will spend five years on sex offender intensive supervised probation, an El Paso County judge ruled Tuesday. David McConkie, the former president of the Colorado Springs East Stake within The Church of Jesus…
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‘Please listen … help us’: Boulder attack suspect’s wife, detained in Texas, releases first public statement
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The wife of Mohamed Soliman, the man charged with a hate crime after the June 1 firebomb attack on marchers in Boulder, released her first public statement on the situation Wednesday. Hayam El Gamal and her five children have been detained since June 3 in U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Dilley (Texas) Detention Center and are…
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Civil deportation lawsuit for family of Boulder attack suspect moved to Texas
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A federal judge in Denver on Thursday ruled that the deportation case for the wife and five children of Mohamed Soliman, charged with a hate crime after the June 1 firebomb attack on marchers in Boulder, will be heard in the Western District of Texas, not Colorado. U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher of Colorado on…
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Federal judge rules to halt deportation of Boulder attack suspect’s family
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The wife and five children of an Egyptian man charged with a hate crime after an fire-involved attack in Boulder over the weekend were headed for deportation Wednesday until a lawsuit filed on behalf of the family resulted in a pause. U.S. District Judge Gordon P. Gallagher of Colorado granted the Wednesday request filed by lawyers representing…