An investigation is expanding in that Fremont County evidence-in-a-landfill story

“The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has been asked to lead a second investigation into former Fremont County Sheriff Lt. Robert Dodd, this time in connection with apparent evidence recovered May 17 from the Phantom Landfill in Penrose,” reports The Pueblo Chieftain. ‘We requested CBI’s assistance with the landfill investigation and they agreed to help, so that remains pending,’ said Molly Chilson, district attorney. Landfill worker Robert Orton reported the evidence came to the landfill in a dumpster that had been at Dodd’s former residence. That apparent evidence consisted of numerous video tapes marked as interviews with victims, many of them sex assault victims, a laptop computer and a tackle box marked ‘FCSO Crime Scene Unit Forensic Lights.'”

“A former Garfield County Clerk and Recorder’s Office employee will serve no jail time under a sentence handed down Thursday, in what is the third case of embezzlement from the office in recent years,” reports The Grand Junction Daily Sentinel. “Alicia Macias will have to pay restitution of more than $16,000, plus interest, in order for the county to recoup the money she stole over several years while working in the office’s vital records department. Ninth Judicial District Court Judge John Neiley agreed to accept the sentencing terms of a deal under which Macias pleaded guilty to a felony count of embezzlement of public property in exchange for a stipulated sentence of 10 years of probation, 80 hours of public service, and restitution. If she fails to keep her payment schedule of $125 a month, she could be subject to resentencing and potential jail time.”

“About two dozen environmental advocates gathered Thursday evening at a playground in east Greeley,” reports The Greeley Tribune. “The message: Oil and gas activity has no place near a school. The school is Bella Romero Academy of Applied Technology, 1400 20th St., and there is a 24-well fracking operation planned about 1,300 feet from the school. “We’re just there to protect the earth, protect the water, protect the children and the people of Greeley,” said Paddy McClelland, of Denver-based Wall of Women. People came from Denver, Fort Collins, Windsor and Loveland. Another, Joann Spotted Bear, made the trek from South Dakota.”

“Garfield County Public Health officials are working to pinpoint the cause of an disease outbreak after receiving dozens of calls from people with gastrointestinal complaints who attended the Rifle Rodeo on Monday,” reports The Glenwood Springs Post-Independent. “The department asks anybody who attended the event at the Garfield County Fairgrounds to call 970-625-5200, extension 8128, even if they are not ill. ‘It appears that people became ill approximately six hours following the end of the rodeo event Monday night,’ Billy Harkins, environmental health specialist with the Garfield County Consumer Protection Program, said in a news release Thursday.”

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