ADAMS COUNTY, Colo. — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has issued a missing senior alert for a 70-year-old man last seen around 10:30 a.m. Monday.
Luis Gabriel Coria, 70, was last seen near 12200 Magnola Way in Thornton.
Coria lives with cognitive impairment, which may make him confused, the CBI said. He is also in need of medications he does not have with him.
He was last seen wearing a red shirt, black shorts and black shoes. Coria has grey hair and brown eyes, he’s 5 feet, 2 inches tall and weighs approximately 160 pounds.
Anyone with information about Coria’s whereabouts is asked to call 911 or the Adams County Sheriff’s Office at 303-288-1535. The Adams County Sheriff’s Office said Rampart Search and Rescue was out Monday night search for Coria but were unable to locate him. They will resume their search Tuesday.
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DENVER — It’s been more than 40 years since Sid Wells, a 22-year-old student at the University of Colorado at Boulder (CU), was murdered, but it feels like yesterday for his family.
“The older I get, the harder it is to stay composed,” said his older brother Robert Wells, his eyes growing misty.
Robert Wells described his brother as a gregarious person who treated everyone with dignity and respect.
“His sense of humor was amazing,” Robert Wells said with a smile. “He could be tenacious when he needed to be. He wanted to be an investigative journalist or fly jets for the Navy. What a great combination.”
“When he first called me, he said, ‘I met this beautiful girl, beautiful strawberry blonde hair, and we’ve been out on a couple of dates.’ And he was very excited about this new person in his life, and they’d gone out about three times,” Robert Wells recalled. “He said one of the cadets in the ROTC came up to him and said, ‘What’s it like dating Robert Redford’s daughter?’ He had no idea.”
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One of the Wells brothers, Sam, found Sid Wells dead from a gunshot wound to the back of the head on August 1, 1983. Investigators identified a suspect, Thayne Smika, who was a roommate of the Wells brothers at the time of the murder.
Smika was arrested in October 1983. However, during a grand jury process to determine if and what charges Smika might face, it was discovered in District Attorney Alexander Hunter’s case file that the office had reached an agreement with Smika that the grand jury would not be able to come back with a “true bill” charging Smika with any criminal conduct, meaning he wouldn’t face any charges no matter what the grand jury determined.
Smika was eventually let out of custody and stayed in the area for a couple of years. A warrant for his arrest on forgery charges was issued out of Denver in early 1986, but he was never arrested, and the warrant was eventually dropped.
Smika’s family said the last time they heard from him was in 1986, when he said he was leaving town. According to court documents, he told his family members to get passports in order to visit him, implying that he would be leaving the country, but his family claims they haven’t heard from him since.
An abandoned car registered to his father, who said he gave the car to Smika before he left town, was found in Beverly Hills, California, in 1986, but there was no sign of Smika.
A different Boulder County district attorney, Stan Garnett, put together a new arrest warrant for Smika, which was approved on Dec. 2, 2010. It carries first-degree murder charges, a $5 million bond, and the conditions that Smika have no contact with the Wells family should he ever be caught.
“In this case, we have answers. We know who did it,” Robert Wells said. “The day he’s found and brought to justice is the day we’ll find out the rest of the story. Until then, that story is cold.”
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Shauna Redford and Sid Wells before his death.
Sid Wells’ mother became one of the founding members of the nonprofit Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons (FOHVAMP), which has advocated for those impacted by such cases since 2001. Eventually, Robert Wells became the executive director of the organization, a position he held for more than two decades.
“We’re here to make sure that these families’ cases are never forgotten,” said Robert Wells. “That murderer living amongst us doesn’t make for a safe society, and they need to be held accountable, and they need to be brought to justice. And as long as we’re around, we’re going to do what we can to ensure that happens.”
On Wednesday, Robert Wells introduced the new executive director of the organization: Kirby Lewis, who previously worked as an assistant director of investigations at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
“I couldn’t have found a better person for this. His heart is in it,” Robert Wells told Denver7. “I’ll be falling back to a senior advisor position and probably handle a little bit of media. And Kirby Lewis will be up to his elbows in cold cases and working directly with the families.”
Lewis said he is both excited and intimidated to take on this new role.
“Recently, with COVID-19 especially, some grant money dried up or went away, so the organization is limited financially,” Lewis explained. “We’re going to make a big push for fundraising so that we can, maybe, FOHVAMP can finance some forensic investigative genealogy. We can maybe do some age progression on photographs, work with the media partners and get some case information out there and try and generate leads or tips for law enforcement to follow up on.”
FOHVAMP connects the families of cold case victims with law enforcement, providing an outlet for dialogue between the two.
“I cannot speak for their law enforcement agency, but kind of tell the family what’s going on behind the scenes that they may not understand or may not see,” Lewis said.
For Robert Wells, this change within FOHVAMP is a new chapter, and one that warms his heart.
“Sid, much like my father, would probably say, ‘God, you’ve done a great job, Rob. What are you going to do tomorrow? What’s next?’” Robert Wells said. “I’m not going away. I will be quietly in the background, doing the best I can, given health concerns and challenges, until they throw dirt on me.”
The Boulder Police Department sent Denver7 a statement that said Sid Wells’ case is still open and active, adding that “the search for the suspect has never ceased.”
The statement continued to say that “no matter how much time goes by, Boulder Police are deeply committed to finding justice for this family and that will never stop.”
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BOULDER, Colo. — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI) issued an Amber Alert for a 16-year-old girl who was last seen Monday forced into a two-door grey, Chevy Silverado.
The CBI said Juan Bretado, 19, is a suspect in the disappearance of Jasmin Zapata, 16. Bretado and another unidentified man are accused of taking Zapata around 8:57 p.m. Monday, the CBI said. They were in a truck with the Colorado license plate AXW-L52 and a lime green “Timpano” sticker in the bottom left of the rear windshield The vehicle was last seen around Thornton Parkway and Gale Boulevard.
Bretado is believed to be the driver of the truck, the CBI said. He’s 5 feet, 8 inches tall with brown eyes and black hair.
Zapata also has brown eyes and black hair. She’s 5 feet, 5 inches tall and weighs 110 pounds, according to the CBI. She was last seen wearing a black shirt and black pants.
CBI issues Amber Alert for teen last seen forced into 2-door Chevy Silverado
Anyone with information on her whereabouts is asked to call 911 or the Boulder Police Department at 303-441-3333.
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DURANGO, Colo. — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation issued a Missing Indigenous Person Alert for a woman last seen Monday around 8 a.m.
Activation: 64-year-old, Indigenous female, Virgie Mason, brown eyes and white hair, 5’03″/190lbs, was last seen on July 15, 2024, at approximately 8:00AM. Virgie left on foot from the Super 8 Motel located at 20 Stewart Street in Durango. If seen, please call 9-1-1 pic.twitter.com/ucYGQOqPRV
DENVER — The Colorado Bureau of Investigation issued a Medina Alert Tuesday for a 2016 Dodge Caravan with a Montana license plate and the woman driving it.
MEDINA ACTIVATION – Near Ogden St and E Colfax Avenue, a female driving a 2016 Dodge Caravan with MONTANA Plate 2-99798B ran over a male who later died as a result of his injuries. After stopping briefly, the driver fled the scene. The crash occurred on 06/25/24 at 1113 hours. pic.twitter.com/qQFymOva0Q
She’s accused of running over a man near E Colfax Avenue and Ogden Street on Tuesday. She stopped briefly before driving away, the CBI said. He later died.
She was last seen wearing a pink tank top and sunglasses.
The 2016 Dodge Caravan she was seen driving had the license plate number 2-99798B.
Anyone who sees her or the car in the Medina Alert is asked to call 911 or the Denver Police Department at 720-913-2000.
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The CBI has conducted searches at 67 locations in seven cities of Rajasthan and Maharashtra in connection with the ₹820-crore IMPS scam in UCO bank, officials said Thursday.
The case pertains to over 8,53,049 IMPS (Immediate Payment System) transactions that took place between November 10 and November 13 last year in the bank.
“IMPS inward transactions initiated from around 14,600 account holders of seven private banks were wrongfully posted in the accounts of over 41,000 UCO Bank account holders. This resulted in ₹820 crore being credited to UCO Bank accounts without actual debiting from the originating banks,” the CBI Spokesperson said.
The searches in Rajasthan and Maharashtra on Wednesday focused on people who received the money and withdrew it rather than returning it to the bank, officials said. This is the second round of searches.
“Earlier in December 2023, searches were conducted at 13 locations involving private individuals and UCO Bank officials in Kolkata and Mangalore,” the Spokesperson said.
Over 330 police personnel, including 120 from Rajasthan Police, in 40 teams and 80 independent witnesses were involved in the action spread across multiple cities including Jodhpur, Jaipur, Jalore, Nagaur, Barmer, Phalodi) and Pune (Maharashtra).
“During these operations, approximately 130 incriminating documents related to UCO Bank and IDFC, as well as 43 digital devices (including 40 mobile phones, 2 hard disks, and 1 internet dongle) were seized for forensic analysis.
“Additionally, 30 suspects were also found and examined on the spot,” the Spokesperson said.
Today, Sameer Wankhede was at the Mumbai High Court. He has been told to make himself available for the CBI enquiry on May 22, 2023. The agency has alleged that the former NCB honcho demanded a bribe of Rs 25 crores to not frame Aryan Khan in the drugs bust. In fact, quite a few officers of the NCB are under the radar of the CBI. They have alleged that the lifestyle of Sameer Wankhede is not proportional to his income. He submitted a document in the Mumbai High Court that had details of Whatsapp chats allegedly between Shah Rukh Khan and Sameer Wankhede. Also Read – Shah Rukh Khan, Sameer Wankhede chat leaked: How the superstar stayed composed even when vulnerable will make you respect him even more
Now, people who are discussing it on social media, especially Reddit feel that it is highly unlikely that Shah Rukh Khan would have contacted him directly. They feel he would not do it since it is not something his legal team would advise him to do. As we know, Shah Rukh Khan had hired the best legal team for his son, which included former additional solicitor general of India, Mukul Rastogi and Satish Maneshinde. The additional team also included Raiaan N Karanjawala from Delhi. People on Reddit feel why would Shah Rukh Khan directly text him. Some felt that he must have been desperate as a father. Also Read – Stardom: Shah Rukh Khan and Ranveer Singh to play cameos in Aryan Khan’s debut web series?
Many feel the messages look too dramatic to come out of the superstar. Shah Rukh Khan’s son Aryan spent close to 25 days at the Arthur Road Prison. Later, he was given a clean chit. It seems no possession of drugs was found on him. Politician Nawab Malik had also slammed the NCB as a corrupt organization. Shah Rukh Khan has been keeping a distance from the media since then.
Britain’s economy is on course to shrink 0.4% next year as inflation remains high and companies put investment on hold, with gloomy implications for longer-term growth, the Confederation of Business Industry forecast on Monday.
“Britain is in stagflation – with rocketing inflation, negative growth, falling productivity and business investment. Firms see potential growth opportunities but … headwinds are causing them to pause investing in 2023,” CBI Director-General Tony Danker said.
The CBI’s forecast marks a sharp downgrade from its last forecast in June, when it predicted growth of 1.0% for 2023, and it does not expect gross domestic product (GDP) to return to its pre-COVID level until mid-2024.
Britain has been hit hard by a surge in natural gas prices following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, as well as an incomplete labour market recovery after the COVID-19 pandemic and persistently weak investment and productivity.
Unemployment would rise to peak at 5.0% in late 2023 and early 2024, up from 3.6% currently, the CBI said.
British inflation hit a 41-year high of 11.1% in October, sharply squeezing consumer demand, and the CBI predicts it will be slow to fall, averaging 6.7% next year and 2.9% in 2024.
The CBI’s GDP forecast is less gloomy than that of the British government’s Office for Budget Responsibility – which last month forecast a 1.4% decline for 2023.
But the CBI forecast is in line with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), which expects Britain to be Europe’s weakest performing economy bar Russia next year.
The CBI forecast business investment at the end of 2024 will be 9% below its pre-pandemic level, and output per worker 2% lower.
To avoid this, the CBI called on the government to make Britain’s post-Brexit work visa system more flexible, end what it sees as an effective ban on constructing onshore wind turbines, and give greater tax incentives for investment.
“We will see a lost decade of growth if action isn’t taken. GDP is a simple multiplier of two factors: people and their productivity. But we don’t have people we need, nor the productivity,” Danker said.
The CBI has booked Kanpur-based Rotomac Global and its directors for Rs 750.54 crore for alleged fraud in Indian Overseas Bank, officials said.
The company, which was in the business of writing instruments, has a total outstanding of Rs 2,919 crore against a consortium of seven banks led by Bank of India in which Indian Overseas Bank has an exposure of 23 per cent.
The agency has booked the company and its Directors – Sadhna Kothari and Rahul Kothari – under IPC sections related to criminal conspiracy (120-B) and cheating (420), besides various provisions of the Prevention of Corruption Act.
The company is already facing multiple investigations by the CBI and the Enforcement Directorate on the basis of complaints from consortium members.
In its complaint to the CBI, now a part of the FIR, the Indian Overseas Bank alleged that the company was sanctioned a non-fund-based limit of Rs 500 crore on June 28, 2012.
The account was declared a non-performing asset on June 30, 2016, with an outstanding of Rs 750.54 crore after default on payments.
The bank alleged it had issued 11 Letters of Credit (LC) to meet the company’s foreign trade requirements, which all got devolved involving an aggregate amount of Rs 743.63 crore, leaving no security for the bank.
The company did not produce the complete set of documents for the trade carried out by it, and all the LCs were issued favouring two parties -Fareast Distributors and Logistic P Ltd and RBA Venture Ltd.
The bank alleged that in the absence of documents, doubts are raised on the authenticity of the trade vessel and voyages claimed in the bills of lading.
The forensic audit conducted by the bank pointed to alleged manipulation in account books and non-disclosure of liabilities arising from LCs.
The audit also found irregularities in sale contracts, bills of lading and corresponding voyages.
It pointed out that 92 per cent of total sales, to the tune of Rs 26,143 crore, were made to four parties of the same owner and group.
“The major supplier to these parties is Rotomac Group, whereas the major buyer for these parties is Bunge group. The major seller of products to Rotomac group is Bunge group. All the four overseas customers have linkage with the group,” the bank alleged.
The forensic audit “substantially flagged” various indicators which point out that the company carried out no genuine business transaction.
The company allegedly cheated the bank and fraudulently siphoned off funds, causing financial loss and wrongful gain to itself to the tune of Rs 750.54 crore, which is still to be recovered from the suspects.
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Monday said it has arrested a managing director and promoter of a private company in connection with a Rs 512 crore bank fraud case. News agency ANI later reported that the arrested person had been identified as Avinash Jain, MD and Promoter of Arise India Limited.
Probing the bank fraud, the CBI examined several persons including witnesses, officials of the private company, and bank officials. However, the agency said that the person who was arrested today was found to be evasive in his replies.
The central agency said that a case was filed on 19 November 2019 against the company based at Mangala Puri in Palam, and others including its Director, Promoter, and government officials on the allegations of causing loss to banks to the tune of Rs 512.67 crore.
The case was filed on a complaint by the State Bank of India (SBI). The bank in its complaint had alleged that the accused cheated the consortium of 6 banks, led by the SBI, causing fraud of Rs 512.67 crore. It was further alleged that the accused had diverted bank loans to its related parties and deliberately cheated the banks by inflating the debtors of the company.
The company was in the business of manufacturing and trading of monoblock pumps, submersible pumps, batteries, inverters, and electrical goods and its units were at Sonipat (Haryana) and Kala Amb (Himachal Pradesh). The account of the company was declared NPA (Non-Performing Asset) on 27 February 2017.
The CBI conducted searches on 2 December 2020 at the premises of the accused which led to the recovery of several incriminating documents.
