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  • Feds drive off with 1-year-old girl after arresting her father in Los Angeles

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    LOS ANGELES — Federal immigration agents arrested a U.S. citizen and took his car with a child in the back seat and drove off from the scene of a raid in Los Angeles, advocates and family said Wednesday.

    On a video provided by immigrant advocates, masked and armed agents are seen arresting a man by his car in a parking lot while his 1-year-old daughter is strapped into a car seat in the back. After the man is led away, agents are seen getting into the front of the car and driving off with the girl still inside.

    The man is a U.S. citizen who was at the scene of a federal immigration raid at a Home Depot store in Los Angeles, said Lindsay Toczylowski, co-founder of Immigrant Defenders Law Center. The firm, which handles immigration cases, was contacted by community members for help reuniting the family, but isn’t representing the man because he is American, she said.

    “It was a dangerous act to have armed men get in a car with that child and remove her from the situation,” Toczylowski said, adding relatives picked up the child later that day from federal offices in Los Angeles. “They should have followed protocols that had the best interest of that child in mind.”

    U.S. Department of Homeland Security officials did not immediately respond to questions about why agents drove the man’s car or took the child.

    In an email, an agency spokesperson said a U.S. citizen was arrested for investigation of assault on Tuesday after carrying a hammer and throwing rocks at Border Patrol agents carrying out a raid at a Home Depot store in Los Angeles while a child was in his car. Five immigrants were arrested during the operation on suspicion of immigration violations, the spokesperson said.

    It was not immediately known where the man was on Wednesday, more than 24 hours after his arrest. His mother, Maria, told reporters, the family received a call from an unknown number Tuesday to pick up the girl at Border Patrol offices in Los Angeles, so they did. She said the child is fine but asking for her father, who was born in California and works in the restaurant industry.

    Maria said she and the girl are also U.S. citizens. She declined to provide her last name to protect her granddaughter’s identity.

    “It’s something very frightening,” she said in Spanish after seeing the video. “You don’t know who those people are.”

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  • Man arrested after groping Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum on street

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    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum said Wednesday that the harassment she suffered from a drunk man in the street near Mexico’s seat of government was an assault on all women, and that’s why she decided to press charges against him.

    Mexico City Mayor Clara Brugada had announced overnight that the man was arrested.

    In a video circulating widely on social platforms, the man appeared to lean in for a kiss and touch the president’s body with his hands on Tuesday. She gently pushed his hands away, maintaining a stiff smile as she turned to face him. She could be heard saying, in part, “Don’t worry.”

    On Wednesday, Sheinbaum was firm in emphasizing that this was not the first time she had suffered such harassment and that the problem went far beyond her. 

    “No man has the right to violate that space,” she said, in a video the Mexican government shared on social media when it announced charges had been filed. 

    “I decided to press charges because this is something that I experienced as a woman, but that we as women experience in our country,” Sheinbaum continued, adding that she also experienced it earlier in her life, as a student.

    “My reflection is that if I do not report the crime, what condition does that leave Mexican women in?” she said. 

    The incident also raised questions about the president’s security. Sheinbaum explained that she and her team had decided to walk from the National Palace to the Education Ministry to save time. She said they could walk it in five minutes, rather than taking a 20-minute car ride. She said she would not change how she acts.

    Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum gives a morning press conference at the National Palace in Mexico City, Monday, Nov. 3, 2025.

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    Speaking out in solidarity with the president, Brugada used some of Sheinbaum’s own language about being elected Mexico’s first woman president to emphasize that harassment of any woman — in this case Mexico’s most powerful — is an assault on all women. When Sheinbaum was elected, she said that it wasn’t just her coming to power, it was all women. 

    “If they touch the president, they touch all of us,” Brugada wrote in a statement released Wednesday. Her statement went on to note that Sheinbaum’s references to the collective “arrival” of women to power in Mexico is “not a slogan, it’s a commitment to not look the other way, to not allow misogyny to continue to be veiled in habits, to not accept a single additional humiliation, not another abuse, not a single femicide more.”

    Mexico’s National Governors Conference also voiced their support for the president as news broke that she would bring charges against the man.

    “From CONAGO we condemn any aggression against women, in this case the aggression toward the president of Mexico,” the group said in a statement shared on social media. “Every form of violence against a woman is unacceptable and should have no place in a society that aspires to live with respect and equality.” 

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  • 2 accused of murder in Lakewood shooting take plea deals

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    Two people charged in the January shooting death of a Lakewood woman took deals and pleaded guilty on Monday, according to court records.

    Manelson Leonel Ramirez, 27, pleaded guilty Monday to second-degree murder in a deal that dismissed three felony charges from his case: first-degree murder, tampering with evidence and witness/victim intimidation, court records show. The deal also dropped two violent crime sentence enhancers.

    Flor Maria Contreras-Mujica, 26, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and criminally negligent homicide, both felonies, according to court records.

    That deal dropped charges of first-degree murder, witness/victim intimidation, tampering with physical evidence and third-degree assault from her case. It also dismissed two violent crime sentence enhancers

    Lakewood police officers responded to the  shooting in the 1400 block of Kendall Street at about 8:30 p.m. on Jan. 14. When they arrived, officers found 26-year-old Nairelis “Junior” Castel suffering from a gunshot wound.

    Paramedics took Castel to the hospital, where she later died from her injuries, police said.

    Police said the three all knew each other before the shooting.

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  • Judge rejects reduced prison sentence for participant in Colorado rock-throwing attack

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    Alexa Bartell (Provided by Jefferson County Sheriff’s Department)

    A Jefferson County judge refused to reduce the prison sentence for one of the men convicted in the killing of 20-year-old Alexa Bartell during a spree of rock-throwing attacks more than two years ago.

    Nicholas “Mitch” Karol-Chik, 21, was sentenced in May to 45 years in prison for Bartell’s death. She was killed in April 2023 when Karol-Chik and two other teenagers threw a 9.3-pound rock through her windshield as she drove on Indiana Street near the Rocky Flats National Wildlife Refuge. The rock struck Bartell in the head.

    In September, Karol-Chik sought to knock 10 years off his sentence through a post-sentencing review, citing his good behavior in prison. He noted that he’d applied for a 10-year prison education program through which he expects to receive a bachelor’s degree in Christian studies and then work in chaplains’ offices across the prison system.

    First Judicial District Court Judge Christopher Zenisek, who presided over Karol-Chik’s case and imposed the original 45-year prison sentence, opted against holding a hearing to listen to arguments about sentence reduction and instead denied Karol-Chik’s request in a brief Oct. 8 order.

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  • 2 guards at California State Prison, Sacramento hospitalized after alleged attack by inmate

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    Two correctional officers at California State Prison, Sacramento are hospitalized and an attempted murder investigation has been launched following an alleged attack on the officers Saturday night.

    According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, the correctional officers were escorting an inmate from a cell around 7 p.m. when they were attacked by an improvised weapon. The inmate was being escorted as prison staff were set to conduct a cell search.

    Prison staff used physical force and chemical agents to stop the attack. Following the incident, officials said an improvised weapon was found at the scene.

    The guards were taken to the prison’s triage and treatment area before taken to an outside medical facility. CDCR officials said both officers are in “fair” condition as of Sunday.

    The inmate, identified as 48-year-old Jason Brannigan, was taken into restricted housing pending investigation, officials said.

    According to correctional records, Brannigan is from Sacramento County and has been imprisoned since at least March 2011. Brannigan is serving a 17-year, 8-month sentence after being convicted of multiple offenses, including corporal injury to a spouse and criminal threats.

    While in prison, officials said Brannigan was sentenced in 2022 to four years for possession / manufacture of a deadly weapon.

    Officials said the case will be referred to the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office for prosecution.

    As of Sunday afternoon, the prison located in Folsom is on “modified programming” to complete a 24-hour threat assessment, officials said. Peer support and other support services are being offered to prison employees.

    According to CDCR, the prison houses more than 2,200 medium-, maximum- and high-security inmates.

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  • 2 California prison officers hurt in alleged attack by inmate

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    FOLSOM, Calif. — Two California prison officers were hospitalized after an alleged attack by an incarcerated man, and authorities are investigating it as an attempted homicide, officials said Sunday.

    The incident happened Saturday at California State Prison, Sacramento, as the suspect was being escorted from his cell to allow staff to conduct a search, according to the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

    “Staff used physical force and chemical agents to quickly quell the attack, and an improvised weapon was found at the scene,” the corrections department said in a statement.

    The officers were transported in fair condition, the statement said.

    The 48-year-old male suspect was placed in restricted housing during the investigation, officials said. He arrived at the facility in 2011 to serve a 17-year sentence for charges including corporal injury to a spouse. In 2022, he received an additional four years for possession/manufacture of a deadly weapon.

    The case will be referred to the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office for possible felony prosecution.

    The prison northeast of the state capital houses more than 2,200 medium-, maximum- and high-security incarcerated people.

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  • Mass Stabbing on Train to London Causes Life-Threatening Injuries

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    Police made two arrests after the train was stopped in Huntingdon, near Cambridge, and say there is no sign of a terrorist motive.

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  • Arrest log

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    The following arrests were made recently by local police departments. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Massachusetts’ privacy law prevents police from releasing information involving domestic and sexual violence arrests with the goal to protect the alleged victims.

    LOWELL

    • Michael James, 52, homeless; trespassing after notice, warrant (failure to appear for trespassing), possession of Class A drug.

    • Melanie Listro, 38, homeless; warrants (operation of motor vehicle with suspended registration, failure to appear for larceny under $1,200).

    • Kristen Butler, 25, 205 Farrwood Drive, Haverhill; trespassing after notice, warrants (failure to appear for shoplifting, assault and battery on police officer, and trespassing).

    • Christopher Guthrie, 38, 108 Chapel St., Apt. 2, Lowell; trespassing.

    • Chanda Moon, 42, 61 Avenue A, Lowell; trespassing after notice.

    • Victor Mercado, 43, 17 Auburn St., Lowell; warrant (possession of Class A drug, failure to appear for shoplifting by asportation).

    • Daniel Faria, 42, homeless; disturbing peace, trespassing, resisting arrest, warrants (breaking and entering building at nighttime for felony, failure to appear for shoplifting by asportation).

    • Thomas Rocha, 21, 270 Lawrence St., Apt. 5, Lowell; operating motor vehicle after license suspension, unregistered motor vehicle.

    • Antonio Santiago, 45, 32 Willie St., Lowell; warrant (larceny over $1,200), possession of Class A drug.

    • Devante Degree, 33, 305 Nesmith St., Apt. 1, Lowell; operating motor vehicle after license suspension.

    • Brian Bristol, 30, 160 Middlesex St., Boston; operating motor vehicle after license suspension, operating uninsured motor vehicle.

    • Edwin Lavallee, 41, no fixed address; warrant (failure to appear for operation of motor vehicle with suspended license).

    • Vannak Chea, 39, homeless; warrant (failure to appear for malicious damage to motor vehicle).

    • Jacquelyn Sanchez, 40, 50 Chestnut St., Apt. 1, Lowell; warrant (assault and battery).

    • Keishla Soto, 35, 256 Market St., Apt. 120, Lowell; operating motor vehicle after license suspension, operating uninsured motor vehicle, unregistered motor vehicle.

    • Keimy Ortiz, 36, homeless; trespassing after notice, warrant (failure to appear for larceny under $1,200).

    • Christopher Michaud, 52, homeless; trespassing after notice.

    • Somrathony Soeng, 36, 49 Plante Circle, Chicopee; trespassing after notice.

    • Sterling Peltier, 49, 49 Oak St., Apt. A, Lowell; trespassing after notice.

    NASHUA, N.H.

    • Kenneth Gurski, 70, no fixed address; criminal trespass.

    • Christopher Albert Rosati, 33, no fixed address; criminal trespass.

    • Rafael Diaz III, 42, 19 Nichol Lane, Apt. 14, Nashua; simple arrest, resisting arrest/detention.

    • Jeiner Lopera Rendon, 28, 33 Whitney St., Apt. 2, Nashua; indecent exposure/sex act in presence of a child under 16, three counts of sexual assault.

    • Brianna Largy, 29, 12 Baker St., Apt. C, Hudson, N.H.; three counts of simple assault, criminal mischief.

    • Katrina Theodore, 39, no fixed address; out of town warrant.

    • Shanaya Scott, 39, no fixed address; out of town warrant, criminal mischief, resisting arrest/detention.

    • Chad Silver, 42, no fixed address; second-degree assault (domestic violence), criminal threatening against person.

    • Tiffany Campbell, 41, no fixed address; criminal trespass, theft by unauthorized taking ($0-$1,000).

    • Dawin Jeniel Fontanez Rosado, 19, 167 W. Hollis St., Nashua; operation of motor vehicle without valid license.

    • Deborah Conway, 61, 170 Concord St., Apt. 9-5, Nashua; two counts of resisting arrest/detention, misuse of 911 system.

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  • US Marine accused of kidnapping girl with intent to sexually assault her, FBI says

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    An active-duty U.S. Marine has been arrested on accusations of kidnapping a 12-year-old girl from Indiana with the intent of sexually assaulting her, the FBI said Thursday.

    William Richard Roy, 24, who was stationed at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, flew to Chicago last week, met the girl in a park and then took her to a hotel overnight before boarding a bus to Durham, North Carolina, the FBI said in a statement.

    The girl’s grandmother first reported her missing on Friday, according to the statement.

    The FBI arrested Roy when he arrived in Durham on Sunday and the girl was “safely recovered,” the agency said.

    Roy faces three charges, which entail enticing and transporting a minor across state lines for an illicit sexual act.

    Public records listed one working number that appeared to be associated with Roy, but the person who picked up declined to comment.

    The U.S. Marine Corps did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

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  • Grand Jury Indicts WA Man For Murder In Clackamas County – KXL

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    A Washington man has been arraigned on one count of murder in the first degree and one count of harassment for an attack that allegedly took place at the Clackamas County Jail. Credit: MGN

    CLACKAMAS COUNTY, OR – The Clackamas County Sheriff’s Office reports that on October 28, 2025, Sapastian Year, 23, from Renton, Washington, was arraigned on one count of murder in the first degree and one count of harassment.  The arraignment came just days after Year was indicted by a Clackamas County Grand Jury.

    The murder charge is the result of an assault that occurred on October 18, 2025, inside the disciplinary housing area at the Clackamas County Jail. The victim, Reece Warren Richeson, 26, of Cedar Hills, was taken to a local hospital after the assault, and he died from his injuries the next day.  Year and Richeson had shared a cell since October 10, 2025.

    Year’s harassment charge is from a confrontation with a different inmate at the jail on October 9, 2025, prior to Year being housed with Richeson.  Richeson was moved to the disciplinary housing area on October 7, 2025.  Richeson was housed in the disciplinary housing area after unrelated misconduct classified as high on the jail’s misconduct severity scale.

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  • Netanyahu Orders ‘Forceful’ Strikes on Gaza

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    Israel alleged Hamas launched an attack against troops in Israeli-controlled territory in Gaza.

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  • Parolee pleads guilty to assault after outburst at Santee Great Clips

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    Great Clips on Mission Gorge Road in Santee. (Photo courtesy of Google Street View)

    A man who hurled merchandise and foul language at employees and customers inside a Santee hair salon pleaded guilty to an assault charge and is slated to be sentenced next month to six years in state prison.

    August Marriott, 28, was seen in cell phone video that was posted to various social media platforms becoming irate with workers at the Great Clips salon on Mission Gorge Road in January.

    Sheriff‘s officials said Marriott became angry upon arriving at Great Clips after a staffer pointed out that he was late for his appointment.

    During the ensuing episode, Marriott vandalized the business, threatened employees and threw shampoo bottles at them, leaving one person with minor injuries, sheriff’s Sgt. Stephen Chambers said.

    Marriott left the salon prior to the arrival of deputies, but was arrested later. Investigators subsequently identified him as the perpetrator of the violent outburst “thanks to many tips from the public,” the sergeant said.

    Marriott initially bailed out of jail, but was arrested in Florida after law enforcement officials said he failed to make a court appearance.

    Marriott is scheduled to be sentenced Nov. 18. Along with the assault count, he admitted having a prior strike conviction as part of his plea.


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  • Arrest log

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    The following arrests were made recently by local police departments. All defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty. Massachusetts’ privacy law prevents police from releasing information involving domestic and sexual violence arrests with the goal to protect the alleged victims.

    LOWELL

    • Cyrinus Morris, 56, 17 Equestrian Lane, Lowell; public drinking.

    NASHUA, N.H.

    • Andrew Gordon Cannon, 28, no fixed address; disorderly conduct.

    • Jaden Peter Davies, 21, 254 Greenville Road, Mason, N.H.; two counts of traffic control device violation, disobeying an officer, reckless operation of motor vehicle, lane control violation, two counts of failure to use required turn signal, yellow/solid line violation.

    • Luis Antonio Fernandez Feliciano, 47, 31 Vine St., Nashua; violation of protective order, theft of services ($0-$1,000), two counts of stalking.

    • Jennifer Smith, 41, no fixed address; stalking.

    • Jacob Kenney, 33, no fixed address; theft by unauthorized taking ($0-$1,000).

    • Paul Nolin, 69, 12 Hunters Lane, Nashua; theft by deception ($0-$1,000).

    • Hannah Michelle Britton, 33, no fixed address; disorderly conduct, criminal trespass, resisting arrest/detention.

    • John Scott Thomas Jr., 32, 133 Ash St., Nashua; disorderly conduct.

    • Inmer Carrillo-Flores, 27, 31 Salvail Court, Apt. 203, Nashua; driving motor vehicle after license revocation/suspension.

    • Kathleen Elizabeth Carroll, 30, 14 Auburn St., Apt. E, Nashua; nonappearance in court.

    • Michael Lavoie, 56, no fixed address; disorderly conduct, criminal trespass.

    • Anthony Watson, 43, 202 Webster St., Apt. B, Hudson, N.H.; disorderly conduct, traffic control device violation, simple assault.

    • Johnny Rivera-Montalvo, 51, 273 Main St., Spencer; two counts of simple assault, three counts of criminal mischief, warrant.

    • Denis Velez, 44, no fixed address; theft by unauthorized taking ($0-$1,000).

    • Faith Stanley, 23, 6 Autumn Leaf Drive, Apt. 13, Nashua; two counts of simple assault.

    • Nathaniel Weddle, 36, no fixed address; warrant.

    • Warren Arthur Curtis III, 24, Manchester, N.H.; driving under influence.

    • Dagoberto Vasquez Bamaca, 20, 11 Lock St., Nashua; transporting alcohol or marijuana by minor, operation of motor vehicle without valid license.

    • Alexandria Iannotti, 28, no fixed address; nonappearance in court.

    • Tyler Downs, 31, 29 Cheyenne Drive, Nashua; simple assault.

    • Matthew Dozibrin, 52, 2 Quincy St., Nashua; warrant.

    • Michael William Bedard, 39, 5 Shedds Ave., Nashua; six counts of simple assault.

    • Rasmei Ung-Cora Flores, 45, 13 South St., Nashua; driving under influence.

    • Matthew Brian Young, 33, 10 Winchester St., Nashua; out of town warrant, disobeying an officer, three counts of lane control device, three counts of failure to use required turn signal, two counts of reckless operation of motor vehicle, four counts of traffic control device violation.

    • Luis Carlos Pacheco, 37, no fixed address; driving motor vehicle after license revocation/suspension, suspension of vehicle registration.

    WILMINGTON

    • Giancarlo Danao Ybanez, 38, 165 Pleasant St., Apt. 101, Cambridge; uninsured motor vehicle, unregistered motor vehicle.

    • Carlos Mendez, 33, 463 Eastern Ave., Apt. 3C, Lynn; unlicensed operation of motor vehicle, failure to stop/yield, no or expired inspection/sticker.

    • Thomas Doyle IV, 40, 59 North St., Wilmington; malicious destruction of property (less than $1,200), threatening to commit crime.

    • Liam Patrick O’Brien, 41, 1037 Main St., Apt. 1, Woburn; operation under influence of alcohol, possession of open container of alcohol in motor vehicle.

    • Eneias Silva, 50, 20 Locust St., Apt. 102, Medford; speeding in violation of special regulation, operation of motor vehicle with suspended license.

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  • CU Boulder student says hockey stick attack was politically motivated

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    Nathaniel Ellis says he was the victim of a politically motivated attack when he was hit over the head with a hockey stick by a man on in-line skates on Thursday evening. (Photo provided by Nathaniel Ellis)

    A University of Colorado Boulder student says he was the victim of a politically motivated attack when he was hit over the head with a hockey stick by a man on in-line skates Thursday evening.

    Nathaniel Ellis, a CU Boulder sophomore who is the secretary of CU Boulder’s Turning Point USA chapter, said he was leaving a meeting on his bike when he was followed by someone on in-line skates with a hockey stick. Turning Point USA is a group that advocates for conservative politics on high school, college and university campuses. It was founded by Charlie Kirk, who was shot and killed at Utah Valley University in September.

    Ellis said the person on in-line skates followed him at about 6:50 p.m. Thursday as he left the Ekeley Science building, which is next to Norlin Library and where the Turning Point meeting was held, until he got to the area near Baseline Road and 27th Way.

    “He came up behind me and broke a hockey stick over my head and yelled something to the effect of ‘f— you, fascist,’” Ellis told the Daily Camera.

    The attack comes after social media posts about Ellis circulated online in the past few days. Boulder Students for a Democratic Society posted on Thursday, accusing Ellis of being a “Nazi activist” who is responsible for “white supremacist, antisemitic, and anti-LGBTQ vandalism” on campus and across Boulder. Torch Antifa Network posted on X that Ellis is “a member of the white supremacist organization Patriot Front.” Ellis also told the Daily Camera he’s gotten direct messages on social media, including one that said, “Get out of Boulder.”

    Ellis believes the attack is related to the online harassment.

    “Last night, antifa physically attacked me for my America first values and actions,” Ellis said. “… Like Mr. Kirk, I will not let threats dissuade me from my TPUSA involvement or beliefs.”

    The Boulder Police Department is not releasing any information about what was said to the victim, any possible motive or any identifying information about the victim.

    Boulder police are looking for a man they say attacked a cyclist near the intersection of 27th Way and Baseline Road with a hockey stick the night of Thursday night. The man was using inline skates and was dressed in all black at the time of the alleged attack. (Courtesy of Boulder Police Department via X.com)
    Boulder police are looking for a man they say attacked a cyclist near the intersection of 27th Way and Baseline Road with a hockey stick Thursday night. The man was using inline skates and was dressed in all black at the time of the alleged attack. (Courtesy of Boulder Police Department via X.com)

    “In the interest of transparency, we can confirm that detectives are aware that the victim was the subject of some social media posts and a digital flyer circulated by others prior to last night’s incident,” a Boulder Police Department spokesperson wrote in an email. “Whether these played a role in the reported assault is part of the investigation.”

    University of Colorado Boulder spokesperson Nicole Mueksch didn’t confirm or deny that Ellis was the victim of the attack, but she said the university has received reports that a CU Boulder student was involved in the alleged assault.

    “The CU Boulder Police Department is supporting the Boulder Police Department (BPD) in the investigation, and the university is conducting outreach to the student,” Mueksch wrote in a statement. “As BPD is the lead agency on this case, CU Boulder cannot offer further comment at this time. Any questions about the investigation should be directed to BPD.”

    Boulder police are seeking the public’s help in identifying the assailant. Police responded to an assault call from a man, who Ellis says was himself, who said he was riding his bike when another man on inline skates approached him from behind, verbally assaulted him and physically assaulted him with a hockey stick, according to a post on the police department’s X.com page.

    The victim was not seriously injured and refused medical treatment, police said.

    The assailant is a white male, of medium-tall height and slender build, police said. He was wearing all black clothing, a black ski mask, and had a green Gatorade bottle with an orange top in his back right pants pocket.

    The assailant fled the scene after the victim called 911, and Boulder Police and CU Police officers searched the area but did not locate him.

    Anyone who has any information about the incident or the assailant is asked to call Boulder Police Detectives at 303-4471-1974. This incident is being investigated under Boulder Police case number # 25-10213.

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  • Thornton teacher injured in stabbing outside school

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    A Thornton teacher was injured after someone stabbed him outside Meadow Community School on Thursday afternoon, police officials said.

    Thornton police responded to the attack in the 9100 block of Monroe Street just after 3 p.m. The teacher was taken to the hospital with injuries that were not life threatening and police arrested 31-year-old Damien Brooks at the scene.

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  • Fairfield man, 37, arrested on hate crime charges after teen girl assaulted while walking to school

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    AN IMMIGRATION DETAINER ON HIM. WE HAVE OTHER NEWS RIGHT NOW. FAIRFIELD MAN IS FACING HATE CRIME CHARGES TONIGHT AFTER POLICE SAY THAT A STUDENT WAS ATTACKED ON HER WAY TO SCHOOL. THIS HAPPENED YESTERDAY MORNING ON DAHLIA STREET. THAT’S NEAR FAIRFIELD HIGH SCHOOL. POLICE SAY THAT THE STUDENT WAS ATTACKED BY 37 YEAR OLD VICTOR CHAVEZ. INVESTIGATORS SAY THAT CHAVEZ USED VULGAR, RACIST LANGUAGE BEFORE ASSAULTING THAT GIRL. A NEIGHBOR SAYS SHE SAW WHAT HAPPENED AND GOT THE GIRL TO SCHOOL, AND THEN SHE IMMEDIATELY REPORTED THE CRIME. CHAVEZ WAS EVENTUALLY FOUND AND ARRESTED THIS MORNING. HE’S BEEN CH

    Fairfield man, 37, arrested on hate crime charges after teen girl assaulted while walking to school

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    A 37-year-old Fairfield man has been arrested and faces hate crime charges in connection with the assault of a teen girl who was walking to school, police said.Fairfield High School staff were alerted after the attack on Wednesday and school resource officers responded to assist the victim, police said. Investigators determined the student was walking near the 300 block of Dahlia Street when the man, identified as Victor Viera Chavez, confronted her with “vulgar, race-based language before physically assaulting her, reportedly due to her perceived immigration status.”A witness helped the girl to school and Fairfield police launched a hate crime investigation. Police’s Youth Services Unit detained Chavez the next morning as he was leaving his home. He was booked for assault, child endangerment and hate crime charges.See more coverage of top California stories here | Download our app | Subscribe to our morning newsletter | Find us on YouTube here and subscribe to our channel

    FAIRFIELD, Calif. —

    A 37-year-old Fairfield man has been arrested and faces hate crime charges in connection with the assault of a teen girl who was walking to school, police said.

    Fairfield High School staff were alerted after the attack on Wednesday and school resource officers responded to assist the victim, police said.

    Investigators determined the student was walking near the 300 block of Dahlia Street when the man, identified as Victor Viera Chavez, confronted her with “vulgar, race-based language before physically assaulting her, reportedly due to her perceived immigration status.”

    A witness helped the girl to school and Fairfield police launched a hate crime investigation.

    Police’s Youth Services Unit detained Chavez the next morning as he was leaving his home. He was booked for assault, child endangerment and hate crime charges.

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  • University of Minnesota hockey player returns to practice after assault

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    A student at the University of Minnesota who was assaulted near campus last month is back practicing with the hockey team.

    Sources previously told WCCO they feared the injuries would end his ability to play.

    A police report says two people assaulted him near Fourth Street and 16th Avenue just before 11 p.m. on Saturday, Sept. 20.

    The U sent a crime alert out warning other students after it happened.

    The University of Minnesota Police Department hasn’t said if it’s connected to any other crimes in the area.

    Gophers men’s hockey coach Bob Motzko says he can’t talk about what happened, but that the player is now back on the ice.

    “My goodness can he skate. Like he is electric level of skating. And we hope very soon that he’s going to be back,” said Motzko. “It’s really noticeable and we’re excited to get him back.”

    Police are not releasing the victim’s name to protect his privacy. They haven’t indicated any arrests.  

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  • Record-high 8 children killed in Colorado domestic violence incidents last year is ‘a wake-up call’

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    Eight children were killed in domestic violence incidents across Colorado in 2024 — the highest number since the state began tracking annual domestic violence deaths eight years ago, according to a report released Tuesday by the Domestic Violence Fatality Review Board.

    The youngest child to die was 3-month-old Lesley Younghee Kim, who was found dead with her mortally injured mother in a Denver home in July 2024.

    The oldest were each 7. They include Jessi Hill, whose father killed her and her 3-year-old sister, Summer, before dying by suicide in January 2024, as well as 7-year-olds Dane Timms and Tristan Rael. The remaining children who died were toddlers: Xander Martinez-King, 1, Xena Martinez-King, 2, and Aaliyah Vargas-Reyes, 1.

    “It’s a wakeup call, I hope, for people in Colorado,” said Whitney Woods, executive director of the Rose Andom Center, which helped compile the board’s report. “This is a real problem.”

    Seventy-two people died in domestic violence incidents statewide in 2024. That’s up 24% from the 58 domestic violence deaths in 2023 but remains below pandemic-era peaks, when 94 people died in 2022 and 92 people died in 2021.

    The pandemic years also saw elevated numbers of children killed, with four children killed in 2021 and six in 2022. Across the other years, no more than three children died in any given year, the board’s reports show.

    Five of the eight children killed in 2024 died amid custody disputes between their parents, the report found.

    “These findings highlight custody litigation as a high-risk period for families experiencing domestic violence and point to the urgent need for stronger safeguards within family court proceedings,” the report concluded. The legislatively-mandated board, chaired by Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, began tracking domestic violence statewide in 2017 and makes annual recommendations for policy changes aimed at preventing deaths.

    The fatality review board last year recommended that the state’s child and family investigators and parental responsibilities evaluators go through training on domestic violence, particularly around understanding the dynamics of domestic violence and how to evaluate the risk of lethality during the custody process. The Colorado Judicial Department is still developing such training, with work continuing in 2026, the report noted.

    “That is to my mind a call to action,” Weiser said. “And we are working with the court system on this right now — how do we make sure our family courts and the general system for addressing domestic violence provides protection, support, services, so that we don’t see these deaths happen?”

    The increase in domestic violence deaths came even as statewide homicides declined 17% to a five-year low. Roughly one in six homicide victims in Colorado in 2024 died during domestic violence incidents. Domestic violence victims account for 18% of all homicide victims statewide, the highest proportion in five years, the annual review found.

    “That is really alarming in this line of work, for us,” Woods said.

    The increase in domestic violence homicides amid the drop in overall homicides “suggests that while broader public safety interventions may be reducing general violence, they are not having the same impact on (domestic violence fatalities),” the report found.

    The increase also comes at a time when many organizations aimed at preventing domestic violence and supporting survivors are facing funding shortfalls and uncertainty, Woods noted.

    Among the 72 people killed in 2024, 38 were victims of domestic violence, 26 were perpetrators of domestic violence and eight — all of the children — were considered ‘collateral victims.’ The victims were overwhelmingly female and the perpetrators overwhelmingly male.

    Across all 72 deaths, guns were used 75% of the time. The second most common type of attack was asphyxiation, which was involved in 8% of all deaths, followed by a knife or sharp object, used in 7% of deaths.

    “Occasionally, people will make comments like, ‘If someone wants to kill someone they can kill them with a knife,’” Weiser said. “I think it’s fair to say access to firearms makes it far more likely that a domestic violence perpetrator will kill somebody.”

    Removing guns from a suspect when domestic violence begins can be an effective prevention strategy, Woods said.

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  • Man gets 40 years in prison for murder in Denver gas station shooting

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    An 18-year-old man took a deal and pleaded guilty to murder in a 2024 shooting at a west Denver gas station, according to court records.

    Ronnie Hernandez, who was 16 when he shot and killed 29-year-old Manuel Quintana in June 2024, was sentenced Monday to 40 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree murder, according to Denver court records.

    Hernandez was charged as an adult, but his plea deal dropped five felonies from his case: first-degree murder after deliberation, first-degree murder with extreme indifference, attempted first-degree murder, first-degree assault and illegal discharge of a firearm, court records show. Two violent crime sentence enhancers also were dismissed.

    Denver officers responded to the fatal shooting in the 500 block of North Sheridan Boulevard just before 6:30 p.m. June 8, 2024.

    When they arrived, they found Quintana with gunshot wounds, police said. Paramedics took Quintana to a hospital, where he died. A woman who was with Quintana also was shot but survived, according to the district attorney’s office.

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  • Sexual assault, drugging trial begins for former owner of Grateful Dead-themed bars

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    Denver prosecutors on Tuesday opened their long-awaited criminal case against former business owner Jay Bianchi, who is accused of drugging and sexually assaulting three women at his Grateful Dead-themed bars between 2020 and 2024, as well as drugging another man and a woman during that time period.

    “This is not about character or lifestyles or choices the victims may have made,” said chief deputy DA Chris Curtis in his opening statements. “It’s not a memory test … (and) it’s absolutely not some kind of gigantic conspiracy against Jay Bianchi. So don’t get distracted. Focus on the evidence.”

    Bianchi, 56, was arrested in April 2024 and charged with three counts of sexual assault dating to Oct. 31, 2020, in the 700 block of East Colfax Avenue; one count of unlawful sexual contact, a misdemeanor, on Nov. 1, 2020, in the 900 block of West First Avenue; and three counts of felony sexual assault on April 7, 2024, in the same block of West First Avenue.

    He has pleaded not guilty on all counts.

    The first sexual assault, alleged by Bonnie Utter, took place following a Halloween party at Sancho’s Broken Arrow, formerly at 741 E. Colfax Ave., in 2020. Utter’s friend Kylie Heringer, who worked as a sound engineer for Bianchi, also alleged that Bianchi groped her the next day in his office at So Many Roads Brewery, formerly at 918 W. First Ave., and that Bianchi attempted to discredit the women with character assassination and coercion. Both of his businesses have since closed.

    The Denver Post is identifying Utter and Heringer because they previously agreed to speak to the newspaper about their experiences.

    Another woman identified during the proceedings alleged she was sexually assaulted by Bianchi in March 2024, and a man and a woman separately said that Bianchi drugged them — in the man’s case, for attempting to intervene in a conflict at Sancho’s. All will testify as part of the case, Curtis said.

    Bianchi, dressed in a black jacket with a maroon tie, sat expressionless most of Tuesday as he watched each witness and speaker, occasionally taking notes. His case has been delayed multiple times as more people have come forward to make claims against him. Bianchi, who has several past arrests and convictions for drug charges and assault, has denied those allegations in multiple interviews with The Denver Post. His past convictions and arrests were not mentioned on Tuesday.

    The trial, which could potentially last through mid-November, began Friday with a jury and evidence review that ran through Monday. On Tuesday, the first witnesses were called: a pair of police detectives and a former nurse from Denver Health who conducted a sexual-assault examination of Utter after she reported it on Nov. 1, 2020.

    Bianchi’s defense team on Tuesday vigorously maintained his innocence. In her opening statements, deputy state public defender Megan Jungsun Lee previewed a strategy that will cast the prosecutor’s witnesses and experts as tainted by misinformation and rumors on social media, as well as news reports in The Denver Post and Westword.

    “You will hear that during this time … that gossip, speculation assumptions were repeated again and again,” Lee said during opening statements. She also cast doubt on the years-long, on-and-off Denver Police Department investigation into the assaults, which she said had been compromised by the gossip-driven narrative and by news reports.

    “Ms. Utter was alert,” Lee said of the events before the alleged assault on Nov. 1, 2020, noting that defense witnesses saw Bianchi and Utter “cuddled up.” The pair was laughing and holding hands as they went downstairs to the basement at Sancho’s that night, Lee said.

    That’s where Utter said the assault took place. However, there was no evidence she was unable to make her own choices despite consuming alcohol, cocaine and cannabis that night, Lee said.

    “(Bianchi) did not hand her a drink, touch her drink, offer her food or offer her drugs,” Lee added. “There is no evidence he caused her any kind of fear or made any threat. She was fully capable of exercising her own free will.”

    The District Attorney’s Office spent much of Tuesday afternoon establishing the physical layout of So Many Roads with dozens of on-site photos, which included an unidentified substance in a baggie in Bianchi’s office, where Heringer’s assault allegedly took place.

    In March 2024, a woman alleged she was raped by Bianchi, also at So Many Roads Brewery, which was co-owned by Tyler Bishop. That bar closed the next month, having been the subject of Denver Police Department stings for underage drinking and drug sales. Bianchi had also been the subject of protests outside the brewery in June 2021, after Utter and Heringer came forward to discuss their experiences, first on social media and later with The Denver Post. Local musicians who felt they had been mistreated by Bianchi rallied during the protest.

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