COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Reports of heavy police presence Tuesday evening in the area of Meadowland Blvd & N Academy Blvd. According to a KRDO crew at the scene, the Colorado Springs Police Department has shut down Meadowland Blvd. between Academy Blvd. and Pearl Dr. Along with police, SWAT is at the scene. This
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — El Paso County investigators are seeking the public’s help to find a man they say robbed and assaulted a woman at a Cimarron Hills convenience store. The crime unfolded at 9:30 a.m., February 19th, at the Loaf ‘N’ Jug at 6695 Galley Road. Brendan Mangum (EPSO) Detectives have identified
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — A wanted man with multiple convicted felonies was arrested on Monday in a felony eluding case in east Colorado Springs. According to Colorado Springs police, Colorado Springs Metro Vice, Narcotics, and Intelligence (Metro VNI) section obtained information about 38-year-old Christopher Atkinson, who police say is a multi-time convicted felon and
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FOUNTAIN, Colo. (KRDO) — 13 Investigates confirmed the Federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) executed multiple search warrants across Southern Colorado Tuesday. In Fountain, police activity was reported just before 10 a.m. near Fontaine Blvd. and S. Powers Blvd. The Fountain Police Department told KRDO officers are in the area carrying out a search warrant. DEA
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The incident that left one man dead and another man arrested at a 7-Eleven earlier this February is now being ruled as homicide investigation, according to Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD). At around 6:40 p.m., CSPD Communication Center received a report of an assault that happened at a 7-Eleven at
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Deputy Chief Adrian Vasquez is set to serve as interim chief of police for the Colorado Springs Police Department following the retirement of Chief Vince Niski. Vasquez joined the department in 1995 after serving in the United States Air Force for 9 1/2 years. According to CSPD, Vasquez has served
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The family of a nine-year-old boy with autism hired an attorney to look into suing the behavior analyst facing criminal charges for allegedly harming him. In August of 2021, the boy left a therapy center called Rehab For All with bruises and scratches. The young boy claimed 33-year-old Brian Schaffer
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — A man is in custody after allegedly breaking into a neighbor’s house and attacking them with a machete. Friday at 1:47 a.m., the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office received a 9-1-1 about a stabbing in the 800 block of Meadow Lane in Palmer Lake. According to the sheriff’s office,
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– A Colorado Springs woman is in jail after being charged with dealing drugs to minors, including an alleged fatal dose of fentanyl to a 16-year-old boy. Maria Cecilia Davis-Conchie has been charged with four felonies and one misdemeanor for giving drugs to three underage boys but has not been charged directly
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DENVER, Colo. (KRDO) — A Colorado State Trooper had a close call last week when a car he pulled over was struck by another vehicle on I-25 near the 58th Street exit in Denver. Trooper Hood was making the stop when the car pulled over onto the left side of the freeway. After speaking briefly
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Thursday, the Colorado Springs Police Department released the identity of a man who was found dead in an alleyway. Sunday, police received a report at 12:06 a.m. of a shots fired call for service in the 2500 block of E. Uintah Street. At the scene, officers found a man dead
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO)– Newly reported data from the Colorado State Patrol’s Smuggling, Trafficking, and Interdiction Sections (STIS) unit shows an alarming amount of fentanyl was seized in the state in 2021. The statistics could reflect just a fraction of how much of the drug is actually on our streets. The STIS team actually had
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Micki Mitchell held out hope that her close friend Kara Nichols might still be alive nearly 10 years after she vanished from her Colorado Springs home in October of 2012. Kara was 19 when she disappeared. That hope came crashing down two weeks ago when the El Paso County Sheriff’s
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EL PASO COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office is searching for a man accused of robbing and assaulting a woman at a convenience store in unincorporated El Paso County. On Feb. 19, a woman reported to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office Dispatch she was robbed of her purse and assaulted
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Wednesday, officers with the Colorado Springs Police Department responded to a reported shooting in the 600 block of E. Hills Road. According to police, the call first came in at 11:36 a.m. Police confirmed one person was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries. At the scene, officers did arrest
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Attorneys on both sides asked an El Paso County judge Tuesday for more time to reach a plea deal for 39-year-old Dane Kallungi, who’s facing first-degree murder charges in the death of his wife, Jepsy. Jepsy was just 26 years old when she vanished from her Colorado Springs home in
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EL PASO COUNTY (KRDO) — Investigators are hoping a few blurry photos will trigger the memory of eyewitnesses, who can help solve a hit-and-run crime against a pedestrian. The incident happened Sunday, January 16th, at 6:14 p.m., near East Bijou Street and Union Boulevard, just east of downtown Colorado Springs. Hit and run suspect vehicle
Continue Reading COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — Brian Schaffer, 33, pleaded “not guilty” Tuesday morning to two felony assault charges for harming a nine-year-old boy with autism in his care. Those charges stem from an incident that took place at a Colorado Springs therapy center in August of 2021. The nine-year-old told police that Schaffer choked him
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) is investigating a man’s death after shots were fired Sunday morning. Shortly after midnight on Sunday, police say they received a call about shots fired in East Colorado Springs on Uintah Street. Once officers got there, they found a deceased adult male in the
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) — The family of 41-year-old Daisha Fry is mourning her loss after she was beaten to death with a baseball bat in the early hours of February 8, 2022. After being on the run from police for a week, her boyfriend, 32-year-old Douglas Hawkins, is behind bars for her murder. It’s
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