COLORADO SPRINGS

โ€˜A revolving doorโ€™: Does cite-and-release system in Colorado Springs trap homeless in an endless court cycle?

The defendant who tops the โ€œfailure to appearโ€ list for mandatory Colorado Springs Municipal Court hearings has 25 open cases and 300 instances of not showing up, a situation that makes the presiding administrator, Judge HayDen W. Kane II, shake his head and heave a deep sigh.

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“One pill away from death”: inside Colorado Springs’ undercover fentanyl crackdown

(COLORADO SPRINGS) โ€” A record number of fentanyl pills are being seized across Colorado, with local law enforcement agencies like the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) crediting the success partly to their departmentโ€™s ability to deploy officers undercover.

The Drug Enforcement Administrationโ€™s (DEA)ย Rocky Mountain Field Division announced it seized nearly 2.7 million fentanyl pills โ€“ or โ€œfakeโ€ pills โ€“ in Colorado in 2024. This breaks the previous record set in 2023 with 2.61 million pills seized in the state.

โ€œIt is an unfortunate record to set,โ€ said DEA RMFD Special Agent in Charge Jonathan Pullen. โ€œWe continue to work day in, day out fighting the cartels putting this poison on Colorado streets. While we have seen seizure numbers trending lower in other parts of the country, Colorado seems to be consistently at or near record highs for the number of fake pills seized.โ€

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Will Colorado Springsโ€™ growth come at cost to Eastern Plains? Farmers say yes.

The Lower Arkansas Valley Water Conservancy District stepped up its fight against a massive Colorado Springs annexation, citing concerns that water from farms in southeastern Colorado would be used to supply 6,500 new homes and businesses to support them.

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Neighbors, acquaintances of Matthew Livelsberger offer range of reactions after Cybertruck explosion

A close friend of Matthew Livelsberger’s ex-wife said she was stunned when she woke up to the news Thursday morning that the career Army man she knew as “bizarre and unhealthy” was apparently the person involved in the Las Vegas explosion at a Trump hotel.

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