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GANG SENTENCING
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A Weld District Court judge sentenced gang member Christian Hanson to 176 years to life in prison. The woman he had been convicted of sexually assaulting — then trying to kill six months later while he was in jail — sat across from him in defiance. Hanson said nothing, never once showing emotion until the end. As he was led out of the court in handcuffs, he yelled gang slurs to the crowded courtroom while four members of the Greeley Police Department Gang Unit shielded the woman from his sight.
Construction workers use a hoist while working high up on the west wall of the Leprino Foods plant in east Greeley. Martin Shields, a CSU ag economist who talked about regional economic characteristics, said the Leprino cheese plant under construction in Greeley is an important cog to the success of agriculture in Colorado.
MLK AND REESE
Brett Reese, a member of the Greeley-Evans School District 6 board of education, created a stir by repeatedly airing attacks on the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. ahead of Martin Luther King Jr. Day. The commentary Reese read on his radio station called King a sexual degenerate, an America-hating communist and a plagiarist. Reese later said he received death threats in response to the attacks, and Reese clashed with fellow members when he said he planned to bring a gun to board meetings. The school board decided to move meetings to schools where weapons are banned.
GREELEY MALL The lender for the Greeley Mall bid $33.8 million on the foreclosed property, according to the Weld County public trustee. “It’s going back to the lender,” said Susie Velasquez, public trustee, who oversaw the weekly foreclosure sale. “We were hoping someone (besides the lender) would bid on it.” The mall, bought for $41.4 million by Chicago-based GK Development in 2006, entered the foreclosure process in 2010. The property was originally scheduled to go to public auction Dec. 8, but the sale was repeatedly delayed — because of a lack of a submitted bid or attorney request.
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Hundreds of job-seekers lined up to apply for the first phase of hiring at Leprino Foods Co. Lisa Prater, Leprino human resources manager for the Greeley plant being built at 13th Street and 1st Avenue, said about 400 people applied within two hours for the first round of job openings. The final wave of workers will be hired in 2013-2014, when the cheese plant will be up to about 500 workers.
The Windsor wrestling team holds up the 4A state wrestling trophy at the Pepsi Center in Denver.
MIDDLE SCHOOL Before hundreds of students, parents, teachers and government officials, Fort Lupton Middle School principal Melanie Patterson accepted a trophy for her school being named National Middle School of the Year. Fort Lupton was selected from among 400 middle schools representing 20 states by the National Association of Middle School Principals. It was the only finalist from Colorado. It was selected for offering positive school programs that help kids, including 29 academic programs and 10 sports with 442 participants; and overall and sustained efforts in achieving adequate yearly progress. State test scores were also used as tiebreakers.
KING SOOPERS All 491 spaces were filled in the King Soopers Marketplace parking lot, 71st Avenue and 10th Street, for its grand opening. The opening included a ribbon-cutting ceremony, free giveaways and Broncos great Terrell Davis, who was there to promote his new barbecue sauce. Greeley Mayor Tom Norton also joined the festivities, as did hundreds of Greeley and even some Windsor residents. One store employee said they expected to see 33,000 people come through the store by the end of the day. The store was the first King Soopers Marketplace in Colorado.
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DELANEY WADSWORTH Delaney Wadsworth, the 3-year-old Windsor girl whose public fight with brain cancer inspired thousands, died. She passed away peacefully surrounded by more than 20 family and friends. Jason, her father, heard her last breath move through her lips in the arms of her mother, Brenna. The Wadsworths made her fight public, especially over Facebook (where her page had 31,000 followers), because the disease is so devastating that support, more than any medical treatments, was the best way to fight it, Brenna said. “It’s the only way we knew how to fight it,” she said. Plus Delaney was a “hambone,” Brenna said, who loved attention and loved people.
TRAFFIC DEATHS After almost eight hours of deliberation, a jury convicted a Windsor woman on all charges for the traffic deaths of a Wyoming couple in 2010. The jury of six men and six women, some visibly upset and dabbing tears, convicted Landra Fabrizius, 26, of two counts each of vehicular homicide while driving reckless and criminally negligent homicide, as well as a traffic offense of reckless driving. Fabrizius was speeding from 79-87 miles per hour east from Windsor on Colo. 392, apparently on her way to a family barbecue. The posted speed limit was 55 mph. As she tried to pass an SUV between Weld County roads 21 and 23, she collided head-on with an oncoming car, driven by Stephen Smith, 58, of Cheyenne. His wife, Patricia Smith, 55, was a passenger. Witnesses said Fabrizius didn’t bother to look for oncoming traffic. The Smiths were killed instantly.
BEARS GO TO THE BIG DANCE University of Northern Colorado men’s head basketball coach B.J. Hill raises the Big Sky Championship trophy surrounded by his team and UNC President Kay Norton after beating Montana 65-60 at Butler Hancock Sports Pavilion. The Bears advanced to the NCAA Tournament, where they lost to San Diego State in the first round.
KAYLEAH WILSON Jurors convicted Robert Montoya of sexually assaulting 12-year-old Kayleah Wilson. Police learned of the relationship between Kayleah and Montoya while investigating her disappearance on March 28, 2010. Her body was found May 19 in an irrigation ditch in west Greeley; Montoya was arrested that day for two counts of sexual assault. While police always focused on him as a potential suspect in her death, they’ve never publicly named him as such. They’ve only stated he’s a person of interest, but the investigation is ongoing.
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WESTRIDGE The Greeley-Evans School District 6 board of education agreed to a three-year charter contract with Westridge Charter Academy, 6200 20th St. The board voted 6-0 to allow the charter to open in a kindergarten-through-ninth-grade format. Under the contract, Westridge agreed to set aside 40 percent of its enrollment the first year to students currently attending Dos Rios, Centennial and Ann Heiman elementary schools — schools the district identified as overcrowded.
BANK WARNINGS Two area banks were told to raise significant capital within 30 days or face consequences ranging from a stock sale to a possible merger with another bank. The prompt corrective actions — called “serious enforcement actions” by an industry analyst — were announced by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. When the directives were issued — March 14 for Bank of Choice, Greeley’s largest community bank, and March 31 for Signature Bank in Windsor — it listed Signature as undercapitalized and Bank of Choice as significantly undercapitalized.
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A banner hangs from the front of the Delta Tau Delta fraternity house at 11th Avenue and 16th Street along with flowers and special messages for University of Northern Colorado freshman Ross Higuchi, 19. Higuchi died at North Colorado Medical Center from injuries received after he jumped from the second-story balcony of the fraternity during a party. Greeley police and UNC officials investigated the case to determine how liquor was supplied to the fraternity party, where underage people were drinking.
Dozens of great blue herons that had nested in trees along the Poudre Trail in north Greeley — delighting bird watchers, joggers and walkers — abandoned their nests and fled after construction crews moved in with heavy equipment beneath the trees. The city of Greeley is the majority owner of the irrigation company that sent the crews. Birdwatchers were angry about the loss of the nesting area — there were more than 30 nests in the trees — but experts noted that herons move often.
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ACLU LAWSUIT
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Weld County agreed to pay almost $300,000 to the American Civil Liberties Union in a settlement involving a 2-year-old lawsuit. The ACLU sued in 2009 over the Operation Numbers Games campaign in 2008, claiming it violated the suspects’ Fourth Amendment rights against unreasonable search and seizure. The deal called for the county to pay the ACLU attorneys fees of $295,000. In that October 2008 raid, Weld sheriff’s deputies found 1,338 suspects after seizing roughly 5,000 tax returns from Amalia’s Translation and Tax Service in Greeley in a search for illegal immigrants committing identity theft. About 142 cases charging suspects with criminal impersonation and identity theft moved forward through the courts before a public defender in one case persuaded a judge to suppress the tax evidence seized.
Osama Bin Laden hunter Gary Faulkner poses outside his apartment in Greeley with his knives and a bin Laden image he uses for target practice. Faulkner attempted to capture bin Laden by himself in June of 2010 but was unsuccessful. Faulkner was thrilled by the news of Bin Laden’s death.
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HORSE VIRUS State Agriculture Department officials quarantined two Weld County locations while they investigated how two horses contracted equine herpes. One horse was euthanized after showing severe neurological signs associated with equine herpesvirus. Various horse events, including rodeos and competitions in Oklahoma, Nevada, Colorado, Washington and Kansas, were canceled or delayed because of EHV-1.
Kenny Platte administers medicine to one of the horses on his ranch near Fort Lupton.
The Greeley-Evans School District 6 Board of Education censured member Brett Reese over accusations including sexual harassment and attending meetings with alcohol on his breath. Reese likened the reprimand to “toilet paper” and called his fellow board members “pigs.” Every member of the seven-person board except Reese signed the resolution that outlined accusations that he sexually harassed a teacher in her classroom, attended several board meetings with alcohol on his breath and violated his oath of office. The accusations stemmed from a May 9 board meeting at Winograd K-8 school, where a teacher accused Reese of inappropriately touching her and making sexually suggestive comments. A censure, essentially a public condemnation, was the harshest measure the board could take against Reese.
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KODAK MOMENT More than 500 people, several of them retired Kodak employees, watched the first wall of building C16 go down at the Kodak plant in Windsor. C16 was the first of four vacant buildings to be demolished as part of Kodak’s footprint reduction project, with the land returning to its original state of native grasses when the project is completed by the end of September. Officials said the buildings — C11 (administration and logistics), C13 (X-ray film finishing), C16 (motion picture finishing) and C60 (litho plate manufacturing) — have been vacated in recent years as part of the company’s manufacturing consolidations. They said C13 had been vacated since 2004, and the other three buildings have sat empty the past two years. About 1 million square feet of demolition space was part of the project.
ROBERT MONTOYA
The Greeley man convicted in March of having sex with 12-year-old Kayleah Wilson was ordered to spend the rest of his life under some kind of watch. Robert Montoya, 19, was handed an indeterminate prison sentence of eight years to life, followed by 20 years to life on parole for his conviction of sexually assaulting Kayleah before she disappeared in March 2010. Her body was found weeks later, and police continue to investigate her death. Greeley police have not named a suspect in her death, though it was clear early on Montoya was the only suspect on whom police focused. During questioning in her disappearance, Montoya revealed he’d had sex with her 10 to 15 times.
WET SPRING = MOSQUITOES NOBLE ENERGY
A section of wall of the new Noble Energy Inc. regional office is lifted in the air while construction continues on the 66,500-square-foot building at the HighPointe Business park at U.S. 34 and Colo. 257. It will house about 250 to 300 administrative and field operations workers involved in exploration and development of the booming Wattenberg oil-and-gas field of the Denver-Julesburg Basin.
With heavy rain in May and flooding in June, experts warned residents to prepare for large numbers of mosquitoes and other insects. While flowing water doesn’t affect mosquito populations, Michael “Doc” Weissmann of Colorado Mosquito Control said the risk comes when those waters recede and standing water is left behind for the diseasecarrying types, such as Culex tarsalis, to breed in. Floodwater mosquitoes were showing up in traps in the area. This type isn’t known for carrying the West Nile virus, but it is an aggressive biter and can hatch in large numbers.
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BANK OF CHOICE Bank of Choice, Greeley’s largest locally owned bank, was seized by regulators, just two weeks after authorities took over a failed Windsor bank. The Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. worked out a purchase agreement with a Kansas City, Mo., holding company for Bank of Choice and its 17 branches. National Bank Holding Corp. made the move to expand its Western presence. Bank of Choice was one of the last Greeley-based banks that had survived the recession and benefitted from the 2009 closure of New Frontier Bank. But, as with New Frontier, bad loans grew too heavy on its books, resulting in an FDIC order to raise capital, which bank directors couldn’t do.
THE STAMPEDE The Greeley Stampede wrapped up its 89th year in Greeley in a crucial money-making year for the nonprofit event. The Stampede had lost money in Dust flies as Alex Robertson brings down a steer in 5.8 seconds during the steer wrestling event at the Stampede Arena. previous years and had all but depleted its reserves by the time the event began in late June. To boot, two bank loans of almost a half million were called in. Organizers shifted away from bigname, big-dollar entertainers, lessening the risk of financial loss by bringing in an outside agency to manage the nightly entertainment with much lower concert ticket prices. They After receiving the case from Weld District Attorney Ken Buck, the Larimer County Grand also introduced new acts and shows — such as the monster truck rally and roller derby Jury indicted Fort Collins Police Lt. Jim Broderick on perjury and other charges in the Timothy — brought back some old favorites, such as the dinner theater, and worked to appeal Masters murder case. Broderick is accused of inserting falsehoods in his affidavit for Masters’ to a much wider local audience. In the end, Stampede officials reported they concluded arrest in 1998; lying in a preliminary hearing; and lying three times at Masters’ 1999 trial. If conthe season in the black with an 8.3 percent increase in patrons overall, and 5,000 more victed, Broderick could face a maximum of two to six years in prison for each count. Masters was tickets sold for the rodeo events than the previous year. freed from the murder conviction in 2008. He subsequently won $10 million in settlements.
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HOMELESS SHELTER More than 200 people gathered as the doors opened at the new Guadalupe Community Center and Shelter in Greeley. The $4 million center, which received contributions from 850 people, institutions and organizations, received a blessing from Archbishop Charles Chaput of the Archdiocese of Denver. The building is owned by Catholic Charities, which operated the previous Guadalupe Center, a 3,000-squarefoot, 38-bed shelter. The new 12,500-square-foot center has three levels, 58 beds, allows men and women to live in separate quarters, and has emergency shelter capacity for up to six families. It also has computers and books — donated by High Plains Library District — and is located along the city bus route and across the street from the Weld County complex, which offers workforce and health and human services. The center, at 1442 N. 11th Ave., will operate around the clock.
MAJOR RETAILER T.J. Maxx, an off-price retailer of clothing and home decor, began building a 25,000-square-foot store in CenterPlace shopping center in west Greeley. The major national retailer pulled its building permit in mid-August. The $2.6 million store will be built just east of Sports Authority in the CenterPlace complex, which includes Kohl’s and Target. Both the north and south sides of Centerplace Drive just east of 47th Avenue are ripe for more commercial development. T.J. Maxx has about 930 stores nationwide. Besides the new King Soopers at 71st Avenue and 10th Street, it’s been at least a couple of years since a major retailer built in Greeley.
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University of Northern Colorado head coach Earnest Collins talks with his team after a scrimmage during his first practice with the team. The former Alcorn State head coach brought excitement to the struggling UNC football program, but the excitement never translated into wins for the team, which finished the season 0-11.
HARVARD BOUND Greeley West seniors and best friends Heidi Hurst and Miguel Perez both took off to Harvard for college. They were both among the 2,100 selected from 35,000 applicants seeking to join the freshman class at Harvard University, the oldest and most prestigious Ivy League school. The class of 2015, in fact, begins Harvard’s 375th year. Between Hurst and Perez, the two volunteered for just about every club or activity offered at West. They both competed in various sports, too. Hurst, who graduated with a 4.68 grade-point average, is thought to be the first female in West’s nearly 50 years to be accepted to Harvard, and Perez, who graduated with a 4.39 GPA, is the first Latino to be accepted from Greeley West.
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MISSING TEEN Denver and Weld authorities found the body of missing Denver teen Kenia Monge near railroad tracks in southern Weld County. Her murderer, Travis Forbes, 31, led investigators to her body, which had been mi ssing since April 1. The Denver district attorney charged him with one count of first-degree murder, to which he pleaded guilty and was sentenced to life in prison. Forbes persuaded the 19-year-old Monge to get into his car and later killed her in the early morning hours of April 1. Her body was found in an unmarked grave in a wooded area near Weld County Road 53 and Interstate 76. Forbes also was charged and sentenced in Larimer County for attempted murder, arson and assault in an attack on a Fort Collins woman in July.
NCMC North Colorado Medical Center in Greeley anDenver police detectives search a wooded area near Interstate 76 and Weld County Road 53 for the body of Kenia Monge, 19, who was nounced it would close two units for transitional pa- abducted April 1 from downtown Denver. tient care because of fewer patients and anticipated reductions in Medicare and Medicaid payments. The Transitional Care Unit and the Cen- posted 3.6 percent job growth in the first quarter of 2011, ranking 12th-highest of the ter for Acute In-patient Rehabilitation were shuttered on Nov. 1. Combined, the units nation’s 326 largest counties. In comparison, job growth increased 2 percent in Denver had capacity for 25 patients — 13 in CAIR and 12 in TCU. Patients previously served in (65th nationally), 1.7 percent in Boulder these units are now directed to other facilities in the region that provide transitional care, (86th overall) and 1.2 percent in Larimer such as Grace Pointe Assisted Living Facility in Greeley and Northern Colorado Rehabili(139th). Weld’s first-quarter job growth tation Hospital in Johnstown. NCMC had just spent $100,000 for new flooring, paintis the best of Colorado’s large counties, ing, additional hand-railing and wall protections in the Transitional Care Unit. TCU and according to the statistics. Weld is also CAIR are in the older parts of the hospital, which was built in 1952, and separate from a state leader in wage growth, posting a the newer portions that opened in 2005 as part of the Second Century Project. 7.6 percent increase in first-quarter 2011 compared with first-quarter 2010. That ranks the county 22nd nationwide for large counties in wage growth percentage in the quarter. Other Colorado counties’ wage growth: Larimer, 5.3 percent (83rd nationWeld County’s job growth continues to chug along at one of the highest rates in the ally); Denver, 5 percent (94th); and Boulder, 3.9 percent (170th). country, according to quarterly statistics from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Weld
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Without fanfare, Leprino Foods in Greeley opened quietly in October, with no ribbons cut, no speeches given. In fact — taking away the drone of incoming milk trucks and 18-wheelers hauling away processed products, along with the clatter of ongoing construction at other parts of the cheese plant — all was quiet along 1st Avenue between 10th and 16th streets. The Greeley plant will take in about 175,000 gallons of milk per day — about 30 standard-sized milk truck loads — to process about 130,000 pounds of nonfat dry milk daily. The nonfat dry milk is shipped to Leprino’s other facilities to be used as ingredients in a variety of the company’s dairy products.
Viking teammates hold up their trophy after beating Berthoud in the class 3A state softball finals in Aurora. The Vikings took home the trophy with a 6-4 victory against the Spartans.
FATAL SHOOTING Police shot and killed a suspect in an undercover child porn sting after officers said he reached for what police believed to be a gun. Jason Collins, 30, met with agents to exchange child pornography images at the Greeley Fairfield Inn Hotel. Greeley police spokesman Sgt. Joe Tymkowych said an investigation revealed Collins did not have a firearm but instead reached for a BB or pellet gun fashioned to look like a real gun, known as a replica gun. “He had also previously told undercover agents specifically that this weapon was real,” Tymkowych said. “He also had told them that he was not going to return to prison.”
OCTOBER SNOW The season’s first snowstorm dumped about a foot of snow on Greeley, snapping trees, closing schools and knocking out power to thousands of Greeley, Windsor and Weld County residents. Many stoplights were out and roads were littered with broken tree limbs. It took days to restore power in some areas, and the storm left a mountain of tree limbs that took weeks to remove. Piles of mulch still remain.
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Voters in Greeley and Evans elected four members to the Greeley-Evans School District 6 Board of Education — including three new faces. Newcomers Doug Lidiak and Logan Richardson defeated incumbent Mark Hinze for two of the fouryears seats up for grabs, while Julia Richard, also an incumbent, was re-elected for a third four-year seat, bringing in the most votes of all candidates. The new board then named Lidiak to replace president Linda Trimberger. Fourteen candidates had competed for the board positions. Many of the candidates had said they were running because of concerns about the district and its poor academic performance.
Eaton hoists the championship trophy after defeating Colorado Academy in the final of the 3A Girls State Volleyball Championships at the Denver Coliseum.
WALMART RULING OCCUPY GREELEY The Occupy Greeley movement, which had been a fixture in Lincoln Park since late October, pulled up stakes and decided to change tactics. About 15 members of the group, which was inspired by the Occupy Wall Street movement in New York, held protests in front of the Greeley offices of Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., and Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., on Dec. 1, urging the lawmakers to support a number of reforms, including more stringent financial regulation and a constitutional amendment aimed at curbing the influence of corporate money in political campaigns. Members of the group said they decided to change tactics after seeing camps in New York and around the country broken up by police.
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A Weld District Court judge sentenced a Greeley gang leader to 42 years in prison for his convictions involving organized crime. Christopher Cox, 30, showed no reaction to the sentence for five crimes he committed in October 2010 and one in 2003, which made him the first gang member in Weld County to be convicted of a violation of the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act. A jury convicted him of the COCCA violation — he chuckled at the announcement — plus two counts each of intimidation of a witness and conspiracy to commit intimidation, as well as one count of burglary.
Windsor’s Jordan Porterfield falls to the ground as the final seconds tick off the clock, giving Windsor the 3A State Championship title. The Wizards defeated Silver Creek 14-7 at Legacy Stadium in Aurora.
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December marked the 50th anniversary of a deadly school bus crash that killed 20 children and injured several others. The bus, its windows coated with frost, pulled in front of a speeding passenger train at Weld County roads 52 and 43. Today, a stone marker stands at The Crossing. The parents, brothers and sisters who lost loved ones often visit the site and quietly remember those lost on Dec. 14, 1961. The memorial is dedicated to the survivors.
The state’s largest nonprofit health insurer will come to northern Colorado beginning next year as part of an exclusive partnership with Banner Health, which manages Greeley’s North Colorado Medical Center, in a move that could reshape the region’s health care market. Kaiser Permanente Colorado said it will expand into northern Colorado for the first time by late 2012. It will build offices in Greeley, Loveland and Fort Collins and will have an exclusive hospital agreement with Banner Health hospitals and physicians. Fort Collins-based Poudre Valley Health System announced plans to build an emergency room and same-day surgery center in Greeley’s North Gate Village on the southeast corner of 71st Avenue and 10th Street.
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250 USED VEHICLES VALUED PRICED STARTING AT $1,947 2010 JEEP LIBERTY 4X4, 3.7L ,V6 ST# T4158
2010 JEEP PATRIOT SPORT, 4X4
2010 HONDA CIVIC
2008 CHEVY SILVERADO
ST# 115096A
ST# T4121
ST# T4199
$17,863
$16,990
$14,990
$21,995
2007 FORD F150
2008 ACURA TL 3.2
2008 CHEVY AVALANCHE
2008 CHEVY CAMARO 1LT
SUPER CAB, 4X4 ST# 119315A
ST# T4230
ST# T4207
ST#T4144
$15,990 2009 KIA SPORTAGE ST#116140A
$15,990 2006 CHEVY EQUINOX ST# 129048A
$24,990 2000 LINCOLN LS ST# T4169A
$5,995 2010 SUBARU FORESTER 2.5 X ST# 128514A
$11,947
$19,990
2005 TOYOTA PRIUS
2002 TOYOTA COROLLA ST# 116155A
ST# 115551A
$12,990
$31,995
$21,990
2005 TOYOTA MATRIX BASE
2007 FORD MUSTANG
ST#S12003A
$10,938 2002 TOYOTA TACOMA ST# T4239A BASE
$8,947
$13,883 2002 PONTIAC GRAND AM
ST# T4147A
$7,947
2011 SCION XB BASE
2008 NISSAN MAXIMA
$14,990
$18,990
ST# S12006A
$8,990
ST# 115563B
ST# T4156
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ALL PRICES AND PAYMENTS PLUS TAX AND DEALER HANDLING $489. VEHICLES STARTING AT $1,947 ST# 11193A BUICK REGAL. USED VEHICLES LOCATED, EVI, EMI, EAI, ETE VEHICLE PICTURES ARE USED FOR ILLUSTRATION PURPOSES ONLY END 12/31/11