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Lewis woman sentenced to 25 years for husband’s murder

Joyce Marie Garcia had claimed the 2023 death was a mercy killing

DATE: Mar 6, 2024 | CATEGORY: Courts and Crime

Cortez woman faces jury trial after refusing to move parked RV

Price had 96 hours to move her vehicle after her court case at the beginning of February

DATE: Feb 27, 2024 | CATEGORY: Courts and Crime

Colorado’s public defenders say they need 230 more attorneys to provide effective counsel

Biggest factor driving need is a 4,500% increase in volume of evidence in the digital age

DATE: Feb 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Regional News

Update: Woman given 96 hours to move her illegally parked RV arrested

The RV has been parked illegally in Cortez for months behind the social services building

DATE: Feb 16, 2024 | CATEGORY: Courts and Crime

Suspect in Cortez Street shooting will get plea hearing in March

Suspect surrendered to police in October

DATE: Feb 15, 2024 | CATEGORY: Courts and Crime

Duo accused of drug trafficking scheduled to appear in court later this month

Robert Lawrence Cross, Corinthia Morningstar Begay allegedly found with 62 grams of meth, heroin and other narcotics in December

DATE: Feb 14, 2024 | CATEGORY: Courts and Crime

Delsin Freeman gets confirmed counsel and a date for preliminary hearing

The court was searching for counsel for Freeman at his January hearing

DATE: Feb 7, 2024 | CATEGORY: Courts and Crime

Mancos man found guilty of vehicular homicide in 2021 crash

Scott Edouard Chilleen denied he was driving in crash that killed woman

DATE: Jan 26, 2024 | CATEGORY: Courts and Crime

Minor arrested in Cortez street shooting gets hearing date

Judge orders that teenager be enrolled in school

DATE: Jan 25, 2024 | CATEGORY: Courts and Crime

Update: Lyndreth Wall put in halfway house in Denver; no word on resignation

Tribal Council responds to federal indictment in sex case

DATE: Jan 22, 2024 | CATEGORY: Courts and Crime

Preliminary hearings set for pair suspected of drug trafficking in Cortez

The two were arrested at the end of December

DATE: Jan 13, 2024 | CATEGORY: Courts and Crime

Jury trial begins for La Plata County man suspected of murder

Nicolo ‘Nico’ Tonelli is accused of fatally shooting his close friend Jamison ‘Jmoe’ McMaster after contentious night

DATE: Jan 11, 2024 | CATEGORY: Local News