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Kansas man convicted in Colorado rape, carjacking May 14, 2021 FacebookTwitterEmail AURORA, Colo. (AP) — A man previously convicted in Kansas of rape and other offenses has been convicted of sexually assault in the rape of a woman in suburban Denver and of assaulting and carjacking another woman. The Aurora Sentinel reports that 26-year-old Tre Carrasco was convicted of nearly a dozen charges by an Arapahoe County jury. The charges include felony sexual assault in the rape of an au pair in Ch...

An Aurora man who shot his wife then hid her body in a garbage can after an argument has been found guilty of first-degree murder, according to the 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office. Keith Allen Zotto, 46, was found guilty Tuesday by an Arapahoe County jury of first-degree murder after deliberation in the death of Amber Zotto, 35, in July 2019. Keith Zotto was arrested July 2, 2019, after Aurora police officers searched his home in the...

An Aurora man was found guilty this month in a fatal hit-and-run crash two years ago, officials announced Wednesday.

While there are still four outstanding investigations — on both the state and federal level — into the death of Elijah McClain, a 23-year-old Black man who died in late August 2019 after a violent encounter with members of the Aurora Police Department, the only charges made in the case so far are slowly disappearing. And they were made not against law enforcement authorities, but protesters who demonstrated last summer, demanding justice for McClain. On May 6, 17th Judicial District DA Bria...

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On May 6, the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office of Brian Mason moved to dismiss all remaining charges in his district against Lillian House, Joel Northam, Eliza Lucero, and Terrance Roberts. The office cited as the reason “an ethical obligation to only proceed on charges [the] office can prove and to dismiss charges that [they] cannot prove.” None of these four defendants, in an effort to have the charges dropped, agreed to give testimony against other people in the movement. We ce...

For the second time in less than two weeks, metro area prosecutors have signed off on an officer-involved shooting in which the officer thought the suspect had a gun — but didnt. In the first case, 18th Judicial District DA John Kellners office declined to prosecute a Castle Rock police officer for the December 2020 wounding of James Woodall; the officer reportedly thought Woodall had taken a shot at him. Actually, Woodall was holding a knife and wasnt close enough to anyone to be an immediat...

Vehicular assault On Nov. 17, 2018, Williams was pulling a trailer behind his Toyota 4Runner on I-70 near Limon and lost control. He ended up facing east in the westbound lanes and drove the wrong way on the interstate for three miles before the crash, the DAs Office said. Williams T-boned a Toyota Tundra pickup being driven by Jared Purdy just before 6 p.m. Reagan Purdy was in the rear seat and was killed in the crash. Her father suffered serious injuries, the DAs Office said. "This defendant ...

Independent teams will now investigate incidents involving Aurora Police officers The move comes after an independent panel called APDs handling of the investigation into Elijah McClains 2019 death flawed. Author: Janet Oravetz (9News) Updated: 2:42 PM MDT April 23, 2021 AURORA, Colo. — Following a critical report about the Aurora Police Departments (APD) handling of the Elijah McClain case, Independent Critical Incident Response teams will now be responsible f...

On April 16, 18th Judicial District DA John Kellners office released a decision letter declaring the December 2020 Castle Rock police shooting of James Woodall during a domestic violence incident to be justified — a development that several Denver-area news outlets reported in perfunctory fashion. But the document reveals that the incident was far more complex and concerning than such coverage implies. According to the decision letter, authored by chief deputy district attorney Elizabeth Oldh...