Crime

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

Rifle resident Ramon Chacon died in 2024 -. the victim of a hit-and-run in Rifle. After two years, police have not identified the vehicle or its driver, and the case remains unsolved. KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh has this report.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

The homicide suspect that caused a nearly ten-hour shutdown of I-70 through Glenwood Canyon on Tuesday has been taken into custody. Just after 4 -am Tuesday authorities were told to be on the lookout for 30-year-old Kenny Espinoza of Westminster, who was believed to be traveling near Gypsum and possibly armed.

Authorities are still looking for a man suspected in a homicide near Denver. I-70 remains closed in both directions.

The local Sexual Abuse Nurse Examiner program - or SANE - was resurrected in 2016 by Sherry Caloia, the 9th Judicial District attorney at the time. River Bridge, a nonprofit child advocacy center in Glenwood Springs, took it on in 2018. But, River Bridge director Blythe Chapman says, even though it was the right thing to do seven years ago, the program no longer fits the agency’s mission. The SANE program for adults closed on January 1. KDNK’s Amy Hadden Marsh spoke with Chapman to find out why.

One in three women and one in four men will experience physical violence from an intimate partner at some point in their life, according to the CDC. In Colorado it's roughly 36% and 30% respectively. Conversations around, and responses to intimate partner crime are often full of inaccuracies and misunderstandings. In the light of a wife and husband's apparent murder-suicide in Grass Mesa KDNK spoke with Advocate Safehouse about the cycle of violence, and how to talk about it.

KDNK’s news team brings you local and regional news from the Roaring Fork Valley ... and beyond.

Garfield County Sheriffs are asking the state agency to investigate the deaths of two people near Rifle. Local law enforcement are concerned with removing any conflict of interest due to the couple's history of domestic violence reports.