Routt County Sheriff’s officers responded to a suspicious item yesterday in the Buffalo Pass area near the Dry Lakes Campground. A hiker in the area called police after finding a square package containing wires, that looked like it could be a bomb. Upon arriving at the scene, Routt County Deputies confirmed the hiker’s Continue reading
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Suspicious Bomb Like Item Discovered
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Scammers Impersonating FBI
The FBI and Rio Blanco County Sheriff’s Department have issued a warning of a new phone scam, where scammers are spoofing the FBI’s phone number on caller ID and are threatening to arrest people if they don’t pay a fine. The FBI will never call or email and ask for payment or Continue reading
Threat That Closed High Schools Not Credible
The threat, which closed down high schools in Garfield County yesterday, and put the middle and elementary schools on lock down for a period of time, was later deemed not credible. The lock down was lifted around one yesterday afternoon. The FBI alerted Carbondale police to an anonymous threat, thought to have been made by an 18 year old Continue reading
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Craig Runaway Added To FBI List
14 year old Katrina Treacy, the Craig teenager that is believed to have run away from her home over a month ago has been added to the FBI’s endangered runaway list. No suspicious evidence was discovered when Treacy went missing so she did not meet the criteria to be added to this or any other national missing persons list. However, according to Commander Bill Leonard from the Craig Police Department, the FBI has made an Continue reading
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Senator Gardner Calls for Answers on Homegrown Terror
Colorado’s Junior U.S. Senator Cory Gardner was one of eleven Republican Senators that sent a letter to Federal Bureau of Investigation Director James Comey, Secretary of Homeland Security Jeh Johnson, and Secretary of State John Kerry asking for answers on questions related to domestic terror. Following a failure of the background check system which in 2013 allowed two terrorists Continue reading
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FBI Issues Alert to Coloradans
The FBI has issued an alert to all Coloradans to be wary of suspicious activity. The agency says there have been numerous incidents reported since June of 2015, that included family members of military personnel being confronted by Middle Eastern males in front of their homes. While these incidents have been primarily on the Front Continue reading
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Steamboat Announces Changes in Police Staffing
Steamboat City Manager Deb Hinsvark announced the hiring of Karl Gills, retired CEO of Yampa Valley Medical Center, as a Special Public Information Officer during the investigation of accusations against Police Chief Joel Rae and Deputy Police Chief Bob DelValle. Gills has been hired as a temporary employee during the course Continue reading
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