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A Colorado man will serve jail time and two years of probation for attempting to vote multiple times in the 2022 general election in Routt County. Robert Anzulewicz, 41, of Steamboat Springs pleaded guilty June 4 to mail-in ballot election fraud, a misdemeanor. Routt County Judge Erin Wilson sentenced him to 20 days in jail and two years of probation. Anzulewicz attempted to vote thrice in the 2022 election: with his own mail-in ballot, by forging another person’s mail-in ballot and then by voting in person, 14th Judicial District Attorney Matt Karzen said in an email. It’s unclear why Anzulewicz tried to vote three times, Karzen said. “Because it never became necessary to learn how he was voting, we purposefully did not expose ourselves in the DA’s office to that information in order to avoid any concerns anyone may have about politics contaminating the prosecution process,” said Karzen, who is an elected official. The Routt County Clerk and Recorder’s Office flagged the fraudulent voting attempt and rejected Anzulewicz’s additional ballots, according to a statement from county officials. “This type of offense is rare, but because of the processes and procedures that the Clerk & Recorders Office has in place, the offense was immediately identified,” a county news release says. There were no presidential candidates on the ballot in 2022, but races for both a U.

A man has pleaded guilty in the 2023 fatal shooting of a 16-year-old girl during an attempted robbery in Montbello, according to court documents. Brandon Sandoval, 18, pleaded guilty to a second-degree murder charge Friday, court documents show. Other charges Sandoval faced were dismissed as part of a plea deal: two counts of murder after deliberation, two counts of murder with extreme indifference, one count of assault with extreme indifference, three counts of assault with a deadly weapon, two counts of robbery with a real or simulated weapon, two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon, two counts of felony menacing, and one misdemeanor count for handgun possession as a juvenile. He was arrested in January 2023 without bond in connection to the fatal shooting of 16-year-old Aaliyah Granados-Cortez on Jan.

Eight people survived after their raft flipped on the Crystal River near the Penny Hot Springs on Sunday afternoon, according to the Pitkin County Sheriff’s Office. Chief Deputy of Operations Parker Lathrop said the sheriff’s office received the distress call around 2 p.m., alerting them that a raft had overturned, and several individuals were unaccounted for. At least 50 personnel from Carbondale Fire, Aspen Fire, Roaring Fork Fire Rescue, the sheriff’s office, and Pitkin County Open Space and Trails assisted on scene.

On day 234 of Israel’s war with Hamas, the Rafah massacre lit up the night sky, incinerating block 2372, the refugee tent camp designated as a safe zone, where Israel told people they would be safe. NPR called it “the single deadliest attack on the city.” A Sky News video showed the aftermath the day after the airstrike.

The Denver City Council on Monday is poised to approve a combined $500,000 in payments to settle two lawsuits that accused police officers and sheriff’s deputies of violent misconduct. The larger of the two settlements — $400,000 — stems from a case filed last spring on behalf of Scott Peters. Denver police officers and paramedics encountered Peters on the afternoon of April 25, 2021, in a parking lot near Empower Field at Mile High.

Memorial Day weekend was busy at Denver International Airport and beyond and airlines are gearing up for more big crowds this summer. United Airlines had its biggest-ever Memorial Day weekend and expects the rest of the summer travel season to be super-charged. Southwest Airlines logged roughly 152,000 passengers taking off from Denver during the holiday weekend and just under 150,000 arriving.