Shortly after 8:00 a.m. on March 30, police were called to a home in the Hills West neighborhood near the corner of East Belleview Avenue and South Havana Street, where they found Tracy Lee Bloch Lechner, 42, a mother of two young children, deceased in her driveway from a gunshot wound. Her estranged husband, David …
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On February 23, Democrats in the state Senate introduced three bills they believe will help address the problem of gun violence in our state. SB23-169 Increasing Minimum Age to Purchase Firearms, changes the minimum age to legally purchase any firearm to 21. Approved amendments to the bill have added exceptions to the minimum age of …
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On January 24, 2023, Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office (ASCO) Patrol Operations Captain Laurie Halaba was sworn in as the department’s Bureau Chief of Public Safety. Captain Halaba is the first female to be named a Bureau Chief in the history of ACSO. ACSO Sheriff Tyler Brown said in a press release, “Captain Halaba started with …
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On December 23, 2022, Arapahoe County District Judge Elizabeth Volz awarded Aurora City Council Member Danielle Jurinsky $3 million in her lawsuit against Robin Niceta, a former Arapahoe County Department of Human Services (DHS) worker, for knowingly making false charges of child abuse against Jurinsky in retaliation for her public criticism of Niceta’s then partner, …
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The City of Cherry Hills Village reports detailed information to its city council and the public monthly. At the end of August, the CHV Police Department (CHVPD) reported that all sworn personnel would be using body-worn cameras beginning October 1, ahead of the January 1, 2023 date required by state law. The equipment was purchased …
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There were 128 auto thefts reported In Greenwood Village in the first nine months of 2022, a decrease of 17% from the same period in 2021. Also, during the nine months ended September 30, 2022, there were 189 stolen autos recovered in the city limits. GV doesn’t report where the vehicles it recovers were stolen. …
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Nothing could assuage the horror of the day in early August 1981 when 34-year-old Sylvia Quayle’s lifeless body was discovered by her father in her home in the 3800 block of South Ogden Street in Cherry Hills Village (CHV). He had come to check on her after she didn’t show up for coffee with her …
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Two months ago, we reported that Greenwood Village was planning to add new misdemeanor crimes to its city code because city officials felt that many people who committed these crimes were not being tried or sentenced by the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office and Arapahoe County Court judges seriously enough and the GV Municipal Court …
The City conducted a nation-wide recruitment search for the Chief of Police position upon Chief Michelle Tovrea’s retirement, with the help of Koff & Associates. Jason Lyons, currently Commander of Special Operations at the Town of Castle Rock, was selected as the next Chief of Police of the City of Cherry Hills Village. Jason will …
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