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Despite changes, criminals with badges still serve on police forces across the state

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he Sentinel roster of Aurora cops caught lying, beating, cheating or behaving like a racist truly is a hall of shame, but the biggest shame is the state and local systems that let these broken cops keep working.

Reporters from the Sentinel, the Colorado News Collaborative, Rocky Mountain PBS, 9News and Colorado Public Radio released a months-long investigative report detailing how cops in Aurora, and statewide, are not held accountable for myriad shocking offenses. In some cases, they continue working, move to another department or even remain eligible to do so.

All this despite a heroic and hallmark effort in 2020 to push through statewide police reforms in the shadows of George Floyd, Elijah McClain and a parade of other unnerving bad-cop cases in Aurora.

The investigation, “Undisciplined” revealed that a bevy of loopholes in the nascent state law — including no mechanism for going back even a few years — allows cops, some in Aurora, to keep their jobs or remain eligible for work on another Colorado police force.

Local police discipline systems are dubious at best in ensuring the public is made aware of police misbehavior and protected from uniformed felons.

The bulk of the problem, however, lies at the state’s Police Officer Standards and Training system. This is the statewide network that sanctions an officer’s good standing and ability to serve, essentially as a clerical service.

It fails to protect the public in that role.

Consider just a few of the Aurora rogue police officers still working or eligible for police jobs elsewhere: Edward Acuti was demoted in 2022 after a series of incidents when he threatened members of the public. One time, when the Black occupants of a car were removed from their vehicle during a traffic stop and said they were afraid of the police, Acuti told them to “just keep breathing.” The Aurora’s Civil Service Commission described this as “an undeniable and indefensible reference to the George Floyd shooting and the death of Elijah McClain. Acuti also threatened the officer who reported his behavior to a lieutenant. Acuti was no longer employed by the Aurora Police Department as of October. According to the POST database, he remains POST certified.

Roland Albert pleaded guilty to felony theft in 2019 after stealing tens of thousands of dollars from police charities that had been set up to pay for flights to the funerals of slain cops and also support the families of officers who were killed or injured in the line of duty. He resigned after police officials became aware of the theft. While Albert’s POST profile includes a decertification action and indicates that he is no longer employed by any police department, his certification status is listed as “CERTIFIED.” Charles DeShazer was fired in 2017 after referring to a group of Black crime witnesses as “Alabama porch monkeys.” His firing was vetoed, and he was reinstated by the Aurora Civil Service commission in 2018. DeShazer had previously been accused of using a racial slur while arresting a Black woman and her daughter in 2006, and the woman subsequently received $175,000 in a settlement with the city. DeShazer’s POST profile indicates that he is currently certified but is no longer employed by APD or any Colorado law enforcement agency.

Matthew Green threatened Elijah McClain with a police dog while the 23-year-old was pinned on the ground in 2019, saying, “If you keep messing around, I’m gonna bring my dog out, and he’s gonna dog-bite you.” An independent city panel found that McClain did not appear to be resisting at the time. According to the same report, Green was disciplined and removed from the department’s canine unit following the incident. Green eventually resigned, but he applied for reinstatement and was rehired earlier this year.

The police rolls in Aurora and across the state are rife with stories of similar cops kept on the job by clubby police looking out for their own.

Aurora police is currently under the grip of a state attorney general consent decree, mandating police reforms in light of apparent “patterns and practices” indicating abusive force use by police and widespread racist behavior, especially against Black people.

Keeping cops on the force like those on the Sentinel “Roster of Shame” is anathema to the police reform city officials consistently say they want to pursue.

Aurora’s newest police administration and the current city manager have been consistent in making clear they support scrubbing bad and dangerous cops from the police force.

We can imagine no better way to make good on those critical promises than to create an independent office of police oversight to create the critical transparency needed to hold rogue officers accountable, and the public informed.

The accountability needed by Aurora, and the state, isn’t an unfair, punitive system that punishes good officers for making mistakes. Calling Black people “porch monkeys,” pistol whipping harmless suspects and stealing from fellow officers aren’t mistakes. They’re crimes. And criminals in police uniforms carrying guns is dangerous and unacceptable.

Fix the system and adhere to it.

JESSICA BARRAND, GUEST COLUMNIST

Success at women-owned businesses grow success for the entire economy

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ctober marks National Women’s Small Business Month, a celebration of the women-owned small business community and their lasting impact on the economy. However, widespread support for female entrepreneurship hasn’t always existed. In fact, it wasn’t long ago that women-owned businesses were a rarity, and a woman needed a male relative to co-sign if they wanted to apply for a business loan.

Now, just a few decades later, women-owned businesses represent: • 42% of all U.S. businesses and • $1.9 trillion worth of revenue.

•Here in Colorado, women-owned businesses account for 45% of all businesses in the state.

While women-owned small businesses are on the rise, it is no secret that these businesses face unique challenges and are struggling to thrive in a difficult post-pandemic economy.

Not only did the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately drive women out of entrepreneurship and the labor force, but many women-owned businesses saw negative sales growth and temporary closures of businesses at higher rates than other enterprises.

This National Women’s Small Business Month – and every month – it is time for consumers and businesses alike to uplift women-owned small businesses and invest in their futures. Ultimately, when these businesses succeed, the entire economy succeeds.

Women-owned small businesses face barriers that are unique to female entrepreneurship. Women in the business community are often forced to balance their work life with the added responsibilities of family caregiving, a role that society expects women to fulfill more predominantly than males.

This struggle for a work-life balance is only compounded by the recent childcare crisis in the United States, making it even more difficult for working mothers to focus on running their business. There is also the unfortunate fact that many women in business face gender-based discrimination and stereotyping that their male counterparts don’t experience.

While consumers can support their local women-owned small business monetarily, small business owners can also do their part by promoting other women-owned businesses and brands. At my small business, Boulevard Bottle Shop, we pride ourselves in being able to source and recommend products from women-owned wineries, distilleries, and breweries to our customers.

By working with independent, women-owned brands outside of the ones commonly found in grocery stores, we can provide our customers with curated, better-quality products while also educating them about the people who make their wines, craft beers, and spirits.

Small business owners can also support female entrepreneurship by sharing with them their expertise and recommendations for long-term business success. This can include advice on reducing margins, working with vendors, and improving customer service. Small business owners can also raise awareness around the technology they use to streamline operations and manage their finances.

For example, I often recommend that small businesses embrace free online payments platforms like Melio to automate payments and other back-office responsibilities. Free online tools can make a big difference by saving small business owners’ time and money, but many entrepreneurs do not know about all the free tools available to them.

The women-owned small business community is a vital part of the U.S. economy, creating millions of jobs and contributing trillions of dollars in revenue to our country every year.

That is why it is crucial for women-owned small businesses to receive support from both consumers and other small businesses throughout their communities. During National Women’s Small Business Month and beyond, we all need to do our part to ensure women-owned businesses have the awareness, expertise, and tools necessary to find lasting success.

Jessica Barrand is the co-founder of Boulevard Bottle Shop, a small business on the border of Lakewood and Denver that sells natural wines, local craft beers, and small batch spirits.

Investigation

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UNDISCIPLINED

Rogue cops still licensed to work despite state reforms Colorado promised transparency around police misconduct, but is still not holding most rogue cops publicly accountable

BY SUSAN GREENE, Colorado News Collaborative AND ANDREW FRAIELI, The Sentinel in Aurora

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Denver Police officer bragged to coworkers that he shot a carjacking suspect once in the head to kill him, then at least 16 times more to see his “face fall apart.” They told investigators that he spent months trumpeting his second on-duty killing and saying he was eager for a third.

Shane Madrigal resigned in 2022 while under investigation for what his supervisors deemed racist, homophobic and “grossly inappropriate” comments about killing people while he was on duty. Yet the man colleagues say has “zero regard for human life” still has a clean disciplinary record with the Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training (POST) board, the state agency

Protesters against police brutality moved to Lincoln Street in front of the state Capitol on June 3, 2020. They held phones aloft as lights and stayed silent for nine minutes in honor of George Floyd. By month’s end, state lawmakers had passed and the governor had signed a landmark police accountability bill, including new public disclosure of officers stripped of the right to work as cops in Colorado as well as tracking of certain disciplinary actions. (Hart Van Denburg/CPR News)

responsible for regulating police.

In the eyes of the law, Madrigal — who denied any wrongdoing — remains qualified to keep serving in law enforcement.

He isn’t the only officer who is still certified despite a documented pattern of alarming misconduct.

“We had some terrible police in

our community who’ve lost their jobs, but …are still able to find jobs elsewhere,” says Rio Blanco County Sheriff Anthony Mazzola, a member of the POST board. “If we’re going to make law enforcement more professional, and if we’re going to make the state of Colorado more safe, we need to hold these people accountable.

“We have to be able to police our police.”

Reporters from the Colorado News Collaborative (COLab), Rocky Mountain Public Media, 9News, Colorado Public Radio and The Sentinel newspaper in Aurora used data made public by a 2020 reform law to take an unprecedented look at police

discipline throughout the state.

An investigation by COLab, The Sentinel and Rocky Mountain Public Media revealed a host of loopholes, mistakes and regulatory blind spots that have kept officers with documented records of abusive conduct in good standing with POST. We found that cops involved in some of Colorado’s most-high profile misconduct cases – including Elijah McClain’s 2019 killing in Aurora – show up, falsely, in the state’s new police database with clean disciplinary records.

We identified several who continued breaking policies and laws as they’ve been able to bounce from police job to police job. And only after we started asking questions about certain officers whose departments had months earlier reported their misconduct did the state take away their right to carry a badge in Colorado.

We also found: • POST’s practice of publicly disclosing disciplinary actions taken against police only since 2022 has shielded the identities of most cops with proven records of misconduct.

• POST relies on local departments to report on their officers’ misbehavior, yet has not used its power to sanction those that don’t.

• The Attorney General’s office says POST has no authority to investigate or discipline officers whose departments have ignored ›› See UNDISCIPLINED, 6

Aurora’s long problem with keeping cop secrets

BY MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer

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any of the highest-profile examples of Aurora police involved in misconduct and controversy — which have turned Aurora into the nexus of Colorado’s police reform debate — are absent from the Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training database.

For some Aurora Police Department cops whose misconduct doesn’t appear in the database, it’s simply a matter of their behavior predating the board’s reporting period of 2022 and forward. For others, investigative failures and unprosecuted criminal conduct mean their publicly-visible disciplinary records don’t reflect their misbehavior, which has damaged the public’s trust in APD. In March 2019, Aurora police officer Nate Meier made national headlines when first responders dragged him — drunk and unconscious — out of his unmarked police

vehicle, which was stalled on a busy road.

The department decided not to investigate the incident as a crime, even though one responding officer commented on Meier being “a little intoxicated,” and Meier admitted to blacking out while drinking vodka earlier in the day.

District Attorney George Brauchler said the failure by police to investigate Meier meant his office did not have enough evidence to prosecute him for drunken driving. Meier was suspended and demoted but kept his job and earned a promotion to the rank of agent earlier this year.

Even the most passionate defenders of the department have expressed discomfort when asked about Meier’s employment status. Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky — who was endorsed by both of Aurora’s police unions during her run for office in 2021 — said earlier this year that she was “never going to stand up for an officer like Nate Meier.”

But since Meier was never decertified,

and since his on-duty drunkenness in 2019 happened prior to POST launching its database in 2022, his POST profile only says that he is a certified peace officer employed by the Aurora Police Department with no reportable disciplinary actions to his name.

Another pair of Aurora cops with deceptively clean POST profiles, John Haubert and Francine Martinez, were criminally charged in 2021 after Haubert pistol-whipped and strangled a man suspected of trespassing while Martinez stood by and watched without intervening.

Haubert had been on the force for about three years and was hired despite pleading guilty to a misdemeanor weapons charge in a 2009 case in which felony charges of menacing and DUI were dropped.

In 2021, Haubert and Martinez confronted three men who were later found to have warrants for their arrest. Two of the men fled on foot. The third, Kyle Vinson, remained sitting on the ground. Body-worn camera footage shows Haubert then pushed

Vinson onto his back and ordered him to roll onto his stomach. Vinson hesitated, and Haubert aimed his gun at him.

Vinson was unarmed and did not attempt to flee or attack Haubert or Martinez during the encounter. When Vinson rolled over, Haubert pushed Vinson’s face into the ground and pressed his gun into the back of Vinson’s head.

While being handcuffed, Vinson tried to lift himself off the ground. Haubert grabbed Vinson by the back of the neck and pushed the barrel of his pistol into Vinson’s throat while yelling at him to roll back onto his stomach. Haubert then struck Vinson in the face multiple times with his pistol and strangled Vinson on the ground for more than half a minute while threatening to shoot him as Vincent cried and begged not to be shot.

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their misconduct, leaving no other state agency to do so.

• And POST’s legal criteria for decertification are so narrow that it cannot decertify officers even when their records strongly suggest they are unfit for police work More than three years after state lawmakers vowed a new era of police accountability, our findings cast doubt on how much progress Colorado has made keeping the public safe from rogue cops.

“What kind of system allows the certification of an officer who takes pleasure in riddling people with extra bullets?” asks Trish Vigil, mother of the carjacking suspect whose fatal shooting Madrigal’s fellow officers say he gloated over. “That’s not police discipline. It’s a free pass. And it’s disgusting.”

The reforms

Law enforcement officers need to be certified by POST, an arm of the state Attorney General’s office, to make arrests in Colorado.

It wasn’t until the 1990s that the state started specifying the kinds of misconduct that would cause an officer to lose that status.

In 1992, the legislature directed POST to deny certification to any officer convicted of a felony.

Eventually, convictions or plea deals for certain serious misdemeanors were added to the list.

Those misdemeanors include assaults with weapons, sex assaults and offenses, harassment, sexually exploiting children, obstruction of justice, bias-motivated crimes and certain drug offenses.

But by far the biggest efforts to reform police discipline have come in the last four years, starting with a 2019 law that makes “untruthfulness” the first non-criminal reason for decertification.

“Peace officers make too many critical decisions to rely on the

credibility of known liars,” says Michael Phibbs, at the time the chief of the Auraria Campus Police Department and chairman of the Colorado Association of Chiefs of Police, which proposed the bill.

Since it passed, 53 officers statewide have lost their POST certification for falsifying criminal justice records, misrepresenting facts during internal affairs-, administrative- and disciplinary investigations, and/or lying under oath.

In 2020, Colorado made national headlines as a leader in police reform when lawmakers, responding to the outrage following McClain’s, George Floyd’s and other police killings, passed a landmark bill targeting law enforcement integrity. One provision of the sweeping reform package ordered POST to create a public database to, for the first time, flag officers who’ve lost their certification. It’s also supposed to record “disciplinary actions” against those found to have been untruthful or who become the subject of a criminal probe, those who resigned while under investigation, in lieu of termination, or get fired “for cause” – meaning for intentional wrongdoing or misconduct.

Colorado is one of 14 states with such a database.

State Rep. Leslie Herod (D-Denver) co-sponsored the reform package and says winning approval for the database was long considered “an insurmountable task” given years of opposition by powerful police unions that argued it would embarrass officers, breach their privacy and unfairly keep those who’ve lost their jobs from finding new ones.

“The key was to make sure these officers who were decertified wouldn’t get a job in another jurisdiction, and for people considering hiring them to understand the liability,” Herod says.

“Against the odds, we achieved that.”

A year later, the legislature began requiring departments to use the database to check job applicants’ disciplinary records. The assumption was that the information in the database would be complete and accurate.

It is neither.

In an interview, Attorney General Phil Weiser acknowledged the system isn’t performing as envisioned and said his office is working to ensure local departments know their responsibilities when it comes to disciplining rogue cops.

“I will not say the system is perfect,” Weiser said. “I always believe there is room for improvement.”

Glitches, question marks, delays

The database is beset with glitches.

One crucial defect causes it to show a checkmark in a box reading “certification” for some officers who have been decertified.

Another causes the word “CERTIFIED” to appear in capital letters next to the names of other officers who, further clicks into the database show, have lost POST certification.

POST says it has known about the malfunctions for about a year, but the office does not have a timeline — nor the budget — to fix them.

In several ways, the information on POST’s database raises more questions than answers.

It lists dozens of officers as having been “terminated for cause,” for example, yet doesn’t say what the cause was. And although the database may indicate that an officer is “subject of criminal investigation,” it removes that language once the case is closed without, in most instances, indicating whether the officer has been convicted, and if so of which offenses.

“If it’s misconduct, it’s misconduct. It ought to be in there, no matter what the (severity) of

Devyn Vick, left, and Trish Vigil talk about the death of Trish’s son at the hands of a police officer who was later fired in part because gloating about using extra ammunition in shooting the suspect in the head. (PHOTO SUPPLIED BY COLORADO NEWS COLLABORATIVE)

crime,” says Samuel Walker, a professor at the University of Nebraska at Omaha who studies police accountability.

POST’s records are also frequently outdated. Some delays are legally necessary because of due process rights officers have in the decertification process, as well as a work backlog among POST’s staff. Other delays, we found, stem from confusion about POST’s reporting process, miscommunica-

tion between local law enforcement agencies and POST, and paperwork errors.

The effort to decertify Colorado State Patrol Sgt. Aaron Laing, for example, sat in 10 months of bureaucratic limbo after he was fired in November 2022 for materially changing dozens of case reports written by members of a Smuggling, Trafficking, and Interdiction Section (STIS) team ›› See UNDISCIPLINED, 7

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The problem and the solution: Aurora’s Civil Service Commission tied to officer discipline

BY MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer

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ifting out troubled officers and unsuitable police recruits has become a major focus in the struggle to reform Aurora’s Police Department, guided by a comprehensive consent decree agreement between the City of Aurora and the Attorney General’s office.

Stepping up efforts to recruit diverse candidates into the mostly white, mostly male department has been one result of the agreement.

The reform process has also involved a transfer of power away from Aurora’s Civil Service Commission — a panel of five Aurora City Council appointees established in 1967 to ensure the city’s police officers and firefighters are hired, fired and disciplined fairly.

Aurora is one of just a few Colorado cities to have a civil service commission armed with the power to reduce or veto discipline against police officers and firefighters. Until recently, it also had the final say in hiring first responders.

While the group has repeatedly expressed its commitment to the consent decree, commissioners have pushed back against what they see as infringements on the role carved out for them in the City Charter, questioning the attorney general’s understanding of their job at the time the consent decree was introduced as well as the city’s authority to dismiss the commission’s attorney earlier this year.

Members of the commission have ar-

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he led, and then lying about those changes. Among them, documents show, he altered a report about a 2021 traffic stop by removing references to the involvement of an undercover Homeland Security Investigations vehicle driven by a special agent.

Laing refused to comment when we called. POST decertified him in September, after we asked about the delay.

It took POST nine months to decertify Officer Joseph Kanson who worked for the Evans Police Department but never finished field training and was convicted and sentenced in January on charges of impersonating an officer and a public servant. POST revoked his certification in September – again, only after we asked about the hold-up.

Kanson, too, declined our invitation to discuss his case.

Alamosa Police Chief Ken Anderson says he has reported two of his now-former officers to POST for untruthfulness — misconduct that he assumed would have led to both being decertified. But in both cases, he says, his reports were snarled in bureaucracy and ignored by POST. Both officers remain certified, so any other law enforcement agency in the state is free to hire them.

“I feel like we’re following the rules and it’s frustrating if we’re not being listened to seriously,” Anderson says.

gued that an independent and autonomous commission serves as an important check on the power of the police department.

When asked whether he believes the other parties to the consent decree respect the independent role of the Civil Service Commission, Chairman Desmond McNeal said, “Probably not.”

“I don’t think they’re looking at it from our standpoint of the process needing to stay independent to avoid nepotism and things like that,” he said.

The commission is one of several government entities that play a part in holding Aurora police accountable, even though it has butted heads recently with the architects of the city’s consent decree.

Despite concerns about the group’s independence coming under threat, members can only be removed by a supermajority vote of the Aurora City Council, and while they no longer have the final say in police and fire hiring, they’ve retained the power to overturn discipline imposed by the chief of police.

McNeal said he is waiting to see how the changes to the hiring process impact recruitment before judging the new process.

Public perception of Aurora’s commission has changed over time — a blow to the group’s reputation came in 2018 with its decision to reinstate a police officer, Charles DeShazer, who made racially-charged comments at the site of an officer-involved shooting.

When Denver police chased a Black

Quinten Stump was a Kiowa County sheriff’s deputy with a record of excessive force when, in April 2020, he took part in killing an unarmed man, Zack Gifford, with three bullets to the back.

That shooting led Kiowa County to pay a $9.5 million civil settlement to Gifford’s family and a jury to convict Stump of attempted manslaughter. He is serving a three-year prison sentence at the Arkansas Valley Correctional Facility, yet, as of this writing, he is still POST certified.

POST would not comment on why that’s the case.

“It feels as though he’s still sort of getting away with it,” says Carla Gifford who, more than three years after her son’s killing, wonders how much longer her family will have to wait to hear Stump will never again work as a cop.

Missing data

In 2016, Denver sheriff’s deputy Waylon Lolotai resigned while under investigation for excessive use of force.

The Boulder Police Department hired him about a month after that. Within three years, that department had launched its own use-of-force investigation against Lolotai for arresting Sammie Lawrence, a disabled Black man, by grabbing his walking aid and forcing him to the ground. Boulder ultimately paid Lawrence a $95,000 civil settlement for that arrest. While that inquiry was un-

man into an Aurora condominium complex in June 2017, leading to a car crash and shooting, neighbors quickly gathered around the scene of the shooting and formed what city officials would later describe as a large and unruly crowd.

It was the type of tense situation that police officers are taught to handle with care, where saying or doing the wrong things can escalate a conflict. DeShazer, then a lieutenant, was one of the Aurora police officers who responded to the complex. Police secured the shooting scene, and DeShazer began talking with a sergeant about what had happened and whether the necessary officers had been notified.

DeShazer went on to describe officers’ efforts to contain the scene.

“We’ve got the Alabama porch monkeys all contained,” he said, apparently referring to the Black residents among the crowd.

The sergeant gasped and switched off his body-worn camera.

DeShazer had been reprimanded before for making inappropriate comments on the job, including comments of a “sexually offensive” nature, city officials later said. In 2006, a disabled Black woman also accused DeShazer of using a racial slur while arresting her and her daughter.

The woman later received $175,000 in a settlement with the city.

While DeShazer was allowed to keep his job after the previous incidents, once the “porch monkeys” comment was re-

derway, Boulder Police launched another internal affairs probe against Lolotai — this time because he called for “use-of-force Fridays” on Instagram. He resigned during that investigation in September 2020.

None of those investigations into Lolotai’s conduct, nor his resignations during them, show up on the POST database. Lolotai, whom we could not locate, remains certified to work as a police officer in Colorado.

Likewise, the POST database has no information about the involvement of three Aurora Police officers in one of the most high-profile excessive force cases in state history: the 2019 killing of Elijah McClain. Responding to a complaint that the 23-year-old Black massage therapist and violinist looked “sketchy,” officers Randy Roedema, Nathan Woodyard and Jason Rosenblatt wrestled him to the ground before Woodyard put him into two dangerous carotid holds. They’ve each been indicted in connection with McClain’s homicide. Roedema was convicted and Rosenblatt exonerated by a jury earlier this month, and Woodyard’s trial started Oct. 16. None, however, showed up as subjects of criminal investigations because, as with Lolotai, their alleged misconduct took place before January 1, 2022, the date POST launched its database. ›› See UNDISCIPLINED, 8

ported internally, then-chief Nick Metz decided DeShazer had to go, firing him a few months later.

In many police departments, that would have been the end of it. But under the system used by Aurora and just a few other Colorado cities, DeShazer was allowed to appeal his firing to the Aurora Civil Service Commission.

He did so, and in June 2018, the commission drew national scorn for reversing Metz’s decision, inviting DeShazer back into the department.

Critics described the group as shielding bad cops, armed with the ability to unilaterally throw out discipline against officers.

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State Rep. Leslie Herod during floor debate on efforts to overhaul state laws around Fentanyl possession and distribution on April 22, 2022. (CPR NEWS)

Democratic state Sen. Rhonda Fields at the Capitol on March 1, 2023. (CPR NEWS)

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Most disciplinary actions that would land Colorado officers in the database don’t in fact show up if, like the cases above, the incident in question happened prior to 2022.

It’s not that POST doesn’t have that older information. The office keeps police discipline data dating as far back as 1979.

Nor do the laws that created the database expressly prohibit POST from listing records dating before 2022. Limiting the time frame never came up during 17 hours of public testimony about the 2020 bill, nor in the nine hours of testimony on the 2021 bill.

State Rep. Herod said she expected POST to include pre2022 records when the database launched — and for a time it did.

But the office deleted most of that information earlier this year after we asked about the timeframe of the misconduct listed. The result: The vast majority of Colorado officers who have disciplinary actions taken against them or who quit or were fired during misconduct investigations have effectively had their disciplinary records shielded from public view. And, more importantly, those “bad apples” remain eligible to carry weapons of deadly force, and a badge, on public streets throughout the state.

POST Director Erik Bourgerie would not comment on the deletion of the pre-2022 data – nor, for that matter, on anything related to the office he has run for almost six years. He referred all questions to the office of Attorney General Phil Weiser, who chairs POST’s board and has led efforts to crack down on bad cops since taking office in 2019.

Weiser campaigned for his seat as Colorado’s top law enforcer partly on a call to create the database. He says the 2020 session — with its short bursts of activity amid COVID-19 recesses — sped by so fast he doesn’t remember if he or anyone else discussed the database’s time frame.

Weiser’s spokesman Lawrence Pacheco says the pre-2022 information never should have been visible to the public because the reforms that mandated the database did not specify what years should be included. Without that guidance, he says, the office relied upon state law that says new statutes are “presumed to be prospective” rather than retrospective.

“POST can only operate with the authority it has in statute,” Pacheco says on behalf of Weiser. Asked whether providing the public with information prior to 2022 would “violate” any law, he wouldn’t directly answer.

Herod makes a point of noting it was the AG’s office, not lawmakers, that decided not to include pre-2022 information.

With only 21 months of misconduct visible to the public, experts in police discipline say it could take at least a decade before POST’s database reflects the real scope of officer misconduct in Colorado. There were about

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser, right, attends a recent meeting of the the Colorado Police Officers Standards and Training Board, which is overseen by Weiser’s office. (Photo Supplied)

13,000 active officers in the state in 2022 and the database shows only 186 —or roughly 1.5% — with disciplinary actions against them.

The percentage of currently active officers would be much higher if pre-2022 data were included.

In the meantime, victims of police abuses predating 2022 say the omission whitewashes their experiences at the hands of abusive officers. “(The short timeframe) helps erase the accountability that I and many other people fought for,” says Sammie Lawrence, who calls Lolotai’s appearance of having a clean record in the public POST data a “farce.”

Herod says she “would be very much interested” in finding a way to require POST to include pre2022 disciplinary actions. State Sen. Rhonda Fields (D-Aurora), another co-sponsor of the reform bill, agrees, calling it a “shame” that information is missing.

“These people are allowed to exist under the radar,” she says.

“The tip of the iceberg”

POST relies on police and sheriffs departments to report the disciplinary actions they take against their officers. But our reporting identified several that haven’t – and with impunity.

The Denver Police Department is one of them. Mary Dulacki, Denver’s deputy safety director, says the city forgot to inform POST that Denver Officer Shane Madrigal resigned while being investigated for his comments and actions around the 2021 shooting of carjacking suspect Cedrick Vick.

POST could withhold funding or impose fines on Denver and other departments for not report-

ing, but it has chosen not to.

Weiser says he prefers to educate rather than sanction local departments as they adjust to the new reforms. And he says POST has no statutory authority to conduct an audit to determine which departments aren’t reporting nor to investigate officer misconduct on its own. Asked whether any law prohibits POST from doing so, his office wouldn’t comment.

Rather, POST’s sole investigator — a job that has been vacant for five months — tracks criminal cases against officers so the office is aware of de-certifiable convictions, and reviews departments’ reports about officers’ untruthfulness to make sure decertification is warranted.

POST boards in other states have investigators actively combing for police abuses. Michael Becar, executive director of the International Association of Directors of Law Enforcement Standards and Training, says he used keywords in a digital news clipping service to sniff out bad cops when he was the POST director in Idaho: “You just have to be proactive.”

POST is the only state agency that regulates law enforcement.

But, Weiser says it doesn’t have the power to investigate or discipline officers whose departments have ignored their misconduct, leaving no other government agency to do so.

Weiser defends what he calls POST’s “federated approach” to police discipline as consistent with the state’s long tradition of local control. He says state government counts on local departments to handle misconduct internally and isn’t set up to police police more aggressively.

“I start from a position of

trusting local and regional actors to act appropriately.” Asked why he would maintain that trust in the face of documented instances of non-reporting, Weiser wouldn’t comment.

“I try not to worry about things I can’t control,” he told us.

Colorado State Public Defender Megan Ring is frustrated with the status quo.

“Public defenders see the same officers in multiple cases. We learn pretty quickly who the bad actors are and do all we can to identify them. Yet these bad officers show up over and over again in our cases. Clearly, not enough is [being] done to root them out.”

National law enforcement researchers say it’s naive for state regulators to count on police departments to self-report. They point to years of academic research into the so-called “blue wall of silence” — a well-documented unwillingness among law enforcers to report or punish officers for abuses of power. Police of all ranks have so much to lose in their jobs, social circles and community standing by reporting or punishing wrongdoing in their departments that, research shows, they tend to keep quiet.

“I can confidently say that there’s much more misconduct than what gets [reported] to the POST board in Colorado or any state,” says Rachel Moran, a professor at Minneapolis’s University of St. Thomas School of Law who studies police discipline. “What does, that’s just the tip of the iceberg.”

The power of prosecutors

Legislatures in five states have given their POST boards authori-

ty to decertify officers for any type of misconduct.

Colorado isn’t among them.

Powerful police unions long have argued that a fireable offense shouldn’t necessarily be a decertifying one. In most states, unions successfully have pushed to hinge decertification on criminal convictions rather than on police standards or other potentially subjective assessments of officers’ conduct.

With a few exceptions — the 2019 untruthfulness law, most notably — that’s how police discipline works in Colorado. Of the 48 reasons an officer can be decertified here, 42 are criminal.

Many officers charged with de-certifiable offenses are able to make plea deals that allow them to stay POST certified.

Greeley Police Officer Kenneth Amick, for example, had a history of policy violations before he kneed and choked a suspect in a 2021 take-down that his department deemed to be excessive force. It fired him and prosecutors filed two charges against him, including assault by strangulation, which is de-certifiable. Amick worked out a plea deal with the prosecutor in which he pleaded guilty to reckless endangerment, a misdemeanor that lets him keep working as an officer, now in Weld County’s Garden City Police Department. And because the incident happened before January 2022, his disciplinary history does not show up in the POST database, making it appear as though he has a record of clean conduct.

Amick could not be reached for comment.

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In 2022, the town of New Castle fired its then-Police Chief Anthony Pagni after, as several news outlets have reported, he got drunk and pressed an AK-style weapon into his neighbor’s chest, threatening to “muzzle thump” him. After Pagni said he was in a mental health crisis at the time and his neighbor asked for leniency, the prosecutor granted him a plea deal that allowed him to remain POST certified. His criminal case was closed, so he, too, now has a clean disciplinary record on the state database.

Pagni, when approached at his home in New Castle, declined to comment.

By linking decertification so closely to criminality, state lawmakers have effectively given district attorneys’ offices — which tend to have close relationships with police they rely on as key witnesses — much of the responsibility for determining whether to keep an officer armed and certified in the name of public safety.

And in doing so, the legislature effectively has stripped POST of its ability to assess the whole cop and discern what, besides a criminal conviction, might reasonably make someone unfit to serve as an officer.

Weiser says he understands that POST is giving up some control to local prosecutors, but that the criminal justice system is designed to start at the local level “and (I’m) comfortable honoring that system and working with it.”

“Zero regard for human life”

Shane Madrigal was an infantry Marine veteran with combat experience when, in his early 20s, he went to work as a Denver police officer in 2017.

His internal affairs investigation found he made frequent derogatory remarks about people who are Black, of Mexican descent, or gay. Records also show colleagues describe the officer who carried two rifles with him on duty as having disdain for the public he served.

“Officer Madrigal made it known that he had zero regard for human life. He reportedly expressed multiple times that he does not care for human beings, that he is not a police officer so he can help people, and his only priority is making sure his fellow officers make it home after their shift,” reads an internal affairs report from February based on interviews with several of his colleagues.

In September 2020, Madrigal took part in fatally shooting Christopher Escobedo as the car chase suspect held a gun to his wife’s head near Denver’s Sloan’s Lake.

Eight months later, Madrigal was among nine officers to respond to a carjacking of a mother and her child in Denver’s Westwood neighborhood by Cedrick Vick.

The 22-year-old father of two with three types of drugs in his system used a handgun to fire randomly into a playground and then toward

officers. They shot back with a total of 109 rounds, including 19 from Madrigal’s rifle.

Denver DA Beth McCann determined both killings to be legally justified.

At issue wasn’t that Madrigal fired so many times at Vick, but rather his frequent bragging, coworkers say, that he did so mostly for kicks.

“He told [redaction] that he knew his first shot hit the suspect in the face, but he wanted to keep shooting to watch the suspect’s face rip apart,” reads a synopsis of one of several internal affairs interviews with his colleagues.

“Officer [redaction] stated that Officer Madrigal is typically smiling when he talks about his officer-involved shooting,” the report continues. “Officer [redaction] stated that [redaction] has never heard another officer talk about being involved in a shooting the way that Officer Madrigal does because most people are not happy about killing people.”

Madrigal told investigators that he stopped firing when he felt Vick was no longer a threat.

He denied saying anything to coworkers about Vick’s face or taking any pleasure in shooting it.

Madrigal reportedly made other comments about officer-involved shootings that the department deemed inappropriate. At least two former colleagues told investigators that, after Vick’s killing, he told them he had a socalled “throw-down gun” – also known as a drop gun – that he would plant on a suspect, if needed, to justify his use of lethal force.

The department recommended his termination upon finding credible those officers’ statements that he had mentioned having such a weapon.

Madrigal denied accounts by coworkers that he sought certification to use a shotgun on patrol because he had already taken part in on-duty killings using a handgun and a rifle, and wanted to use a third type of weapon so, as one put it, “he can kill another person and be three for three.”

“Officer [redaction] stated that Officer Madrigal is not joking when he makes these comments, he is ‘dead serious.’”

As state law stands, there is likely nothing about his behavior that could cause him to be decertified. Although alarming to fellow officers and his supervisors, it didn’t cross into criminality, untruthfulness or the other, very narrow criteria POST needs an officer’s misconduct to meet in order to revoke their certification.

Madrigal resigned while under investigation in 2022, his fifth year in the department. When he was contacted by a reporter for comment, twice, he declined.

“A long way to go”

As much as Devyn Vick misses her brother “Ced,” and as deeply as their mother, Trish Vigil, grieves, they know that his own shooting spree led police to shoot and kill him that day in May 2021.

What stings, Devyn Vick says, is that “he was so gruesomely and

unnecessarily annihilated that we were not able to view him” before burial.

What haunts Vigil, she says, is hearing Madrigal’s colleagues report he found pleasure in firing bullet after bullet into her son. “That’s sickening. It’s just sickening. It makes me want to throw up.”

Neither mother nor daughter understands how Denver police simply forgot to report Madrigal’s decision to resign while under investigation to POST any more than they understand why he remains a certified officer – or why the state’s decertification standards don’t factor in behavior they consider monstrous.

“If he has the opportunity to do it again, he absolutely will,” Devyn Vick says. “It’s a game to him, and his bodies are trophies is the way I see it.”

Public records suggest Madrigal has moved to Alabama whose POST board is not nearly as transparent as Colorado’s. Without his permission, it won’t say whether he is working in law enforcement there.

There is no national database for the public to see if officers who have left police jobs under a cloud have gone on to work in law enforcement in other communities and states.

Attorney General Weiser calls creating such a national database “the next step” to improve police discipline, but civil rights advocates say he needs to focus on fixing what’s wrong with the system in Colorado before doing so nationally.

“We need to make sure state agencies like POST and the AG’s office are fully enforcing existing laws and creating a culture where Colorado’s law enforcement agencies go above and beyond to ensure maximum integrity,” Taylor Pendergrass, advocacy director for the ACLU of Colorado, says.

“We also need to take a hard look at additional legislative solutions right now, especially small changes tightening up the law that might make a big impact on ensuring rogue officers are not sneaking into our police departments and out on the streets.”

“Clearly, as this reporting shows, there is a long way to go,” adds Public Defender Ring.

But several lawmakers say no one really wants to push for more police discipline laws this upcoming session – let alone refine ones already on the books from 2020 and 2021. Leaders in both parties say political interest in police reform has waned without any high-profile police killings in the headlines, at least for now.

The Sentinel in Aurora provided fellowship assistance to help make Andrew Fraieli available to the reporting team. Former Rocky Mountain Public Media Producer Brittany Freeman and Rocky Mountain Public Media Reporter Alison Berg contributed to this story. The Colorado Media Project’s Watchdog Fund provided grants to COLab and Rocky Mountain Public Media to help offset costs for public documents used in this reporting.

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Solutions in 2021 noted the decisions regarding DeShazer and other officers as a source of animosity in the community.

21CP Solutions said community members described the group’s decision to reinstate officers involved in “highly-publicized, racially charged incidents” as “an ongoing betrayal of the values and expectations of the community it serves.”

They also wrote that “many” of the community members interviewed for its report “identified the authority of the Commission to override the Chief’s disciplinary decisions as undermining the ability of the APD to effectively manage its employees.”

The DeShazer decision led to something of a reckoning for the commission that became part of the broader push for accountability among Aurora police. Progressive Councilmember Juan Marcano and other elected officials started disseminating information about how people could apply for seats on the commission not long after in an effort to recruit a more diverse group.

Membership on the commission has since turned over completely, and today, half of the commissioners are people of color. The attorney general’s office wrote in September 2021 that the effort appeared to have improved the public’s confidence in the group.

“Community members expressed optimism about the Commission’s efforts to diversify its membership,” the office said, “but shared concern that those efforts would be insufficient to create actual change.”

In one notable example of the commission upholding consequences imposed by the chief of police, the commission voted last year to sustain the firing of former police union president Doug Wilkinson, who was dismissed for sending an email criticizing the department’s diversity policies in a way that commissioners said “denigrated and showed hostility toward women and minorities.”

Aurora’s police unions have expressed skepticism about the approach to reform outlined in the consent decree, particularly as it was undertaken by former police chief Vanessa Wilson.

Wilson was fired last year following a 2021 vote of no confidence by members of the Aurora Police Association and Fraternal Order of Police Lodge 49 and months of criticism by council conservatives.

Former commission chairperson Jim Weeks, who joined the group after the DeShazer decision, described the rejection of Wilkinson’s appeal as “entirely consistent with the philosophy of the commission,” arguing at the time that the commission had not lost the faith of the community or infrequently sustained discipline brought by the chief.

Weeks acknowledged the current commission for “carrying the torch forward.” But as it’s done so, the commission’s role has changed, spurred on by the reforms included in the consent decree.

Part of the decree directs the Aurora Police Department and Aurora Fire Rescue to take over more of the hiring process. Prior to April, the commission made the final determination of whether to hire a police candidate. Today, commissioners are in the minority on the oral interview panel that also includes agency representatives, a “citizen assessor,” and a city human resources employee available to break tie votes.

While the architects of the consent decree have said the change means police and firefighters will get the chance to meet and interact with candidates before extending a job offer, commissioners say police and fire reps sat in on interviews in the past and reached the same conclusions about candidates as commissioners.

McNeal described the place of the commission in the new process as an “oversight” role and said he welcomed the greater level of involvement from the police department.

“We’ve never kept them out of the process. But now that they own it, it’s like they’re more committed to it, which is good.

They’re gonna get increased numbers that way, and that’s a good thing. That’s what everybody wants,” he said.

The power struggle between Aurora’s commission, police, the city and the firm hired to monitor the city’s compliance with the consent decree flared up earlier this year when the city decided to transfer background investigations out of the commission’s budget and dismiss its attorney.

Scotty Krob served in the role of the commission’s attorney during disciplinary hearings for decades, until around April, when he was directed by the City Attorney’s Office to cease work for the commission.

The city says Krob was ultimately accountable to the City Attorney’s Office and that the dismissal had to do with a disagreement over the scope of Krob’s work.

Commissioners have questioned this version of events, saying they were given inconsistent explanations by the city and that the city attorney needed to remove himself from the process to preserve the integrity of disciplinary hearings.

McNeal said the commission is still exploring its options to push back on the firing of Krob.

“If you were to ask the commissioners, we would tell you that we don’t think the city attorney has the right to fire the commission’s legal counsel,” he said. “That process has to remain independent.”

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Division 5 courtroom at Aurora City Municipal Court.

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Aurora lawmakers agree to analyze privatizing public defender’s office

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majority of Aurora lawmakers voted last week to look into the costs of eliminating the Aurora Public Defender’s Office and replacing the department with outside attorneys hired on a contractual basis to represent poor defendants.

The city’s request for proposals comes about a year after a subcommittee of the Citizens’ Advisory Budget Committee, chaired at the time by Republican council candidate Jono Scott, suggested the city analyze the $2.55 million cost of maintaining the office versus leaning more on the state or private attorneys for legal services.

Aurora City Council member Dustin Zvonek sponsored the proposal that the group voted on Oct. 9, saying he would only support a bid to replace the office if it saved the city money, adding that it might not be worth it if the savings were relatively small and that he would also consider how the services offered by bidders stacked up to what the city offers currently.

“This is not going to get rid of the ability for those who would qualify for it to have public defense,” Zvonek said. “If we could save, let’s say, a million dollars annually and provide the same level of service, then I don’t think we would be doing our jobs as stewards of taxpayer dollars by not moving forward and exploring other alternatives.”

While conservative lawmakers voted in support of the proposal, progressives, public defenders and members of

the city’s Aurora Public Defender Commission expressed doubt that privatizing public defense would be cheaper or better for defendants who are too poor to hire their own lawyer when facing jail time imposed by municipal court.

Former public defender Michael Carter told the council during the public comment period of the meeting that public defenders view their job as their “calling” and suggested private lawyers who hadn’t signed up for the relatively low-paying, high-volume work of public defense wouldn’t be as dedicated as the employees of the Aurora Public Defender’s Office.

“While the public defender’s job is first and foremost to follow the law, we also become social workers. We become guidance counselors. We become all sorts of things,” Carter said.

“At 5 o’clock, the judge wants to go home, the clerk wants to go home, (and) the DA wants to go home, because it’s their job, and at 5 o’clock, they’re ready to go. But at 5 o’clock, I’m not, because this is my calling. My calling doesn’t change because of the time. My calling doesn’t change because we’ve been here for six or seven hours. That’s what it means to be a public defender.”

David Kaplan — a member of the Aurora Public Defender Commission, which has the power to appoint and remove the city’s public defenders — called Aurora’s system a “national model” and urged the council to include the commission in discussions about eliminating the in-house office.

In response to a question from Coun-

cilmember Alison Coombs, George Koumantakis from the Aurora City Attorney’s Office said city code doesn’t expressly prohibit the city from using outside attorneys to handle public defense.

However, chief public defender Elizabeth Cadiz said the code makes numerous references to the specific relationship between the in-house Public Defender’s Office and the Aurora Public Defender Commission.

She also rejected the suggestion by Zvonek that the state’s Office of the Alternate Defense Counsel could take over the work done by her office. The OADC currently defends poor defendants in the Aurora Municipal Court on a contract basis when there would be a conflict of interest involving the Public Defender’s Office.

Of the three other cities that contract with the OADC for public defense, Cadiz said Denver has a limited arrangement similar to Aurora’s, while Northglenn and Westminster have smaller municipal courts that handle fewer cases. Unlike Aurora’s court, Northglenn’s court does not hear domestic violence cases, she said.

Last year, then-chief public defender Doug Wilson, who worked in the state public defender’s office for more than a decade, also said the OADC was also understaffed despite having an “enormous workload.”

“It’s a big risk to take,” Cadiz said Oct. 9. “Your decision will, in fact, affect an entire department full of full-time employees who work here and are good at what they do, and are providing a constitutionally-required service to this city.”

She also brought up the fact that the

city has already paid for a workload study that will determine the appropriate staffing level for city judicial entities, including the Public Defender’s Office, which could inform the council’s decision about the future of the office.

Councilmember Curtis Gardner said he thought the council was getting ahead of itself by debating whether to eliminate the Public Defender’s Office, since the Oct. 9 vote was only to request bids. “(Zvonek) has said several times (that) if it doesn’t pencil out, then we’re not going to move forward. And I’ll be the first to say, it isn’t going to solely come down to dollars and cents for me,” Gardner said. “There’s a lot more to it than that. I want to make sure that the folks who use the public defender have strong representation.”

Meanwhile, Coombs said she was worried that the council would impact morale among public defenders and drive turnover by publicly talking about getting rid of the city office.

“My concern is that in doing this what we end up saying to those folks is, ‘You might want to be looking around for another job.’ And then we end up incurring the cost of recruiting, and training, and onboarding a whole new group of folks.

So that actually is not a responsible use of our dollars, to send that message out to our employees in this whole department,” she said.

The council ultimately voted 6-4 to request bids for replacing the Public Defender’s Office, with Coombs, Juan Marcano, Ruben Medina and Crystal Murillo opposed.

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1 officer convicted, 1 acquitted, 1 starting a new trial in death of Elijah McClain — Aurora police officer Randy Roedema was found guilty of criminally-negligent homicide and third-degree assault, and former officer Jason Rosenblatt was found not guilty of all charges by an Adams County jury Oct. 12 for their roles in the 2019 death of Elijah McClain.

While Roedema had been charged with second-degree assault, jurors found him guilty of the lesser crime of third-degree assault. Rosenblatt had also been charged with criminally-negligent homicide and second-degree assault.

Roedema, who kept his head bowed after the verdict was read, faces up to three years in prison on the more serious homicide charge.

Rosenblatt hugged his supporters as he walked out of court.

As the split verdict was read, Roedema’s wife leaned forward in her seat with her head down as Rosenblatt’s wife patted her back.

Sisson declined comment after the verdict was issued.

McClain’s mother, Sheneen McClain, listened to the verdict from the front row, where Attorney General Phil Weiser had his hand on her shoulder. She held her right hand high in a raised fist as she left the courtroom.

She expressed disappointment in the verdict.

“This is the divided states of America, and that’s what happens,” she said as she walked away from the court house.

The trial was the first of three that will determine the legal culpability of the first responders who confronted McClain as the 23-yearold Black man was walking home from a store, pinning him on the ground, choking him and injecting him with an overdose of the sedative drug ketamine.

AURORA AND COLORADO COMMENTS Gov. Jared Polis: My heart is with Elijah McClain’s family during this incredibly agonizing moment.

Actions have consequences and the justice system has held someone accountable for this crime.

Thank you to Attorney General Phil Weiser for stepping up and for your commitment to doing right by the McClain family and Coloradans. Attorney General Weiser and his team helped ensure that a fair and objective judicial process took place. Thank you to the community and the jurors who served, and we appreciate and look forward to resolution in the judicial process underway in the remaining trials.

U.S. Rep Jason Crow, D-Aurora: Our community continues to mourn the loss of Elijah Mc-

Clain. He should have never been stopped. Never been frisked. Never placed in a chokehold. Never injected with ketamine. Our country must reckon with the past and push for serious and fundamental reforms to our criminal justice system to prevent future abuses.

Aurora interim City Manager Jason Batchelor: I know there are deep feelings about Elijah McClain and that today’s verdict will elicit a range of emotions across the community. Irrespective of the outcome of the trial and the remaining two trials, Mr. McClain’s death was tragic and had a profound impact on all of us. I have stood alongside city employees and community members over the last four years in championing meaningful, measured public safety changes while simultaneously supporting our dedicated police officers and firefighters who work tirelessly to keep our community safe. None of that work will change. We will not waver in our commitment to progress. I join the city’s executive management team and APD in monitoring public reaction to today’s verdict.

We will continue to work together, acknowledging the loss and impacts of this tragedy, to drive the progress we seek.

Aurora Fire Rescue Chief Alec Oughton: Until all the trials related to the death of Elijah McClain are ruled, Aurora Fire Rescue owes it to all the defendants to withhold our comments about individual case outcomes to ensure that we do not compromise their right to a fair trial. What we will share at this time is our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone impacted by this event. The stress they have suffered over the past four years as they seek healing and closure is unimaginable. We also want Aurora residents to know that we remain focused on our responsibilities to provide exceptional service in protecting the community, loved ones and property during emergency situations.

Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser: Today’s verdict is about accountability; everyone is accountable and equal under the law. And hopefully today’s verdict is another step in the healing process for the Aurora community and the state. We are here today because Elijah McClain mattered.

He was just 23 years old when he died, and he had his whole life ahead of him. His mother, Sheneen McClain, has had to relive that tragic night repeatedly for the last five years. Yet I, and all of us, are inspired by her courage and devotion to her son. Elijah’s memory lives on as a blessing.

State Sen. Rhonda Fields, D-Aurora: They are both guilty, their police conduct and behavior was reckless. They chose to be violent instead of de-escalating.

State Sen. Janet Buckner, D-Aurora: The entire tragedy in-

flicted on Elijah McClain has been a miscarriage of justice. None of this brings back Elijah or provides any real peace to his family. I’ll withhold judgment until the rest of the trials play out.

Police were responding to a call about a suspicious person when they made contact with McClain, who was not suspected of committing a crime.

McClain’s death ignited a firestorm of scrutiny focusing on the treatment of Black people by law enforcement and the Aurora Police Department in particu-

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lar, coinciding with protests of the 2020 murder of George Floyd.

Colorado’s Attorney General’s Office — which indicted Roedema and Rosenblatt, as well as officer Nathan Woodyard and Aurora Fire Rescue paramedics Peter Cichu-

niec and Jeremy Cooper in connection with McClain’s death — subsequently investigated APD and found the agency engaged in a pattern of racist policing and excessive force, compelling the department to agree to a list of reforms that are still being implemented.

Jurors delivered their verdict af-

ter deliberating for part of the day Tuesday, all day Wednesday and most of the day Thursday.

“When I first spoke with you during the jury selection process, I tried to communicate that, other than military service, voting and a few other forms of public service, there’s nothing that our citizens do

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that is as important to one of the pillars of our democracy as being at a jury trial,” Judge Mark Warner told jurors after the verdict was read.

Aurora Police Department interim chief Art Acevedo issued a statement shortly afterward that did not address the details of the case but acknowledged the lengthy legal process that led up to Roedema and Rosenblatt’s trial.

“I know many have been waiting a long time for the involved parties to have their day in court,” Acevedo said. “As a nation, we must be committed to the rule of law. As such, we hold the American judicial process in high regard. We respect the verdict handed down by the jury, and thank the members of the jury for their thoughtful deliberation and service. Due to the additional pending trials, the Aurora Police Department is precluded from further comment at this time.”

The trial for Woodyard is scheduled began Oct. 13, while the trial for Cichuniec and Jeremy Cooper will begin in November.

Warner set Roedema’s sentencing for Jan. 5, 2024. Ryan Luby, a spokesman for the city of Aurora, said Roedema was fired immediately after he was convicted of the felony charge of criminally-negligent homicide.

Roedema and Rosenblatt did not testify in their defense at trial.

Their attorneys blamed McClain’s death on the paramedics for injecting him with ketamine, which doc-

tors said is what ultimately killed him.

However, prosecutors argued that the officers’ restraint of McClain contributed. Senior Assistant Attorney General Jason Slothouber told jurors that Roedema and Rosenblatt also encouraged the paramedics to give McClain ketamine by describing him as having symptoms of excited delirium that they had learned about in training.

But he said the officers did not tell them anything about McClain’s complaints that he could not breathe, something prosecutors said happened six times.

McClain’s mother, Sheneen McClain, sat with attorneys for the state in the front row of the courtroom during the trial, part of her quest to remind the mostly white jury that her son was a real person.

She watched the encounter being played over and over again along with graphic photos from his autopsy.

During testimony that stretched over three weeks, witnesses were limited to offering what they “perceived” someone to be doing or saying in the video. The video clips did not always provide a complete picture of what was happening, but Warner said the jurors were the only ones who could decide what they meant, just like any other piece of evidence.

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Despite the emotional weight of McClain’s last words captured on body camera and a story about him playing the violin in an animal shelter, the trial did not include much testimony about him or his life.

A co-worker at a massage studio testified briefly about how he used to bike or run miles to work in an affluent suburb and then also run on lunch breaks. A photograph of a smiling McClain she took shortly before his death was shown to jurors during closing arguments.

McClain was stopped Aug. 24, 2019, while walking home from a convenience store on a summer night, listening to music and wearing a mask that covered most of his face. A 911 caller reported him as suspicious, and the police stop quickly became physical after McClain, seemingly caught off guard, asked to be left alone. He had not been accused of committing any crime.

The encounter quickly escalated, with Officers Nathan Woodyard, Roedema and Rosenblatt taking McClain to the ground, and Woodyard putting him in a neck hold and pressing against his carotid artery, temporarily rendering him unconscious. The officers told investigators they took McClain down after hearing Roedema say, “He grabbed your gun dude.” He later said Rosenblatt’s gun was the target.

The initial statement was heard on the body camera footage but exactly what happened is difficult to see. The prosecution urged jurors to be skeptical, saying Rosenblatt said he could not feel anyone reaching for his gun.

But one of Roedema’s defense lawyers, Don Sisson, pointed out that McClain said “I intend to take my power back,” which he argued showed intent. The officers had to act in the moment to protect themselves, according to Sisson.

“They didn’t get to watch the video over and over and over for three weeks before they get to act,” he said.

Paramedics injected McClain with ketamine as Roedema and another officer who was not charged held him on the ground. He went into cardiac arrest en route to the hospital and died three days later.

Rosenblatt’s lawyer, Harvey Steinberg, said his client, the most junior officer on scene, was a scapegoat in a prosecution driven by politics. He pointed out that Rosenblatt was not restraining McClain when the ketamine was given.

After the grand jury was convened to re-investigate the case, the doctor who performed McClain’s autopsy, Stephen Cina, revised his opinion and concluded that he died of complications from the ketamine while also noting that that occurred after the forcible restraint. However, Cina still was not able to say if the death was a homicide or an accident or if the officers’ actions contributed to Mc-

Clain’s death.

Dr. Roger Mitchell, another forensic pathologist who reviewed the autopsy and searched for clues about what happened in the body camera video, found their actions did play a role. He labeled the death a homicide.

The neck hold lowered the oxygen level in McClain’s brain while his exertions during the altercation increased the amount of acid in his body, Mitchell, a Howard University medical school professor and former chief medical officer for Washington, D.C., said during testimony.

The lack of oxygen and increased acid created a “vicious cycle,” he added, causing McClain to vomit and then inhale the vomit into his lungs so it became hard for him to breathe.

— By MAX LEVY, Sentinel Colorado Staff Writer and COLLEEN SLEVIN Associated Press COPS AND COURTS

2 men stabbed near East Colfax have ‘life threatening’ injuries Two unidentified man were rushed to a local hospital Oct. 16 with “life-threatening” injuries after being stabbed somewhere near East Colfax Avenue in Aurora, according to police.

Police were called to the area of Colfax and Lima Street at about 8 p.m.

“Officers and detectives are currently investigating and have a person of interest detained,” police said in a social media post.

No description of the suspect nor the stabbing victims was provided.

Police said anyone with information can call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

Tipsters can remain anonymous and still be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000, police said.

— Sentinel Staff

3 dead, 3 injured from gunfire at a party at a northeast Denver industrial storefront Three people are dead and three others were wounded after a shooting early Oct. 14 at a party in northeast Denver, adjacent to Aurora, police said.

Police were called to a party at about 1:30 a.m. at an industrial storefront at 12445 East 39th Ave., where officers found someone dead with gunshot wounds, police said.

The shooting was in an industrial area between I-70 and Smith Road, east of Peoria Street.

Another five shooting victims were taken to local hospitals, where two of them where pronounced dead, police said.

“Preliminary information indicates that there was a party at an industrial storefront where there’s

evidence indicating shots were fired from at least two firearms,” police said in a statement. “At this point, investigators are working to determine the circumstances that led up to the shooting as well as who was involved. No arrests have been made at this time. “ Police provide any information about the age or sex of the shooting victims.

Police said anyone with information can call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

Tipsters can remain anonymous and still be eligible for a reward of up to $2,000, police said.

— Sentinel Staff

Man seriously injured early Sunday when shot near Colfax and Lima An unidentified man was shot and seriously injured early Oct. 15 while near East Colfax in Aurora, police said.

The man was taken to a nearby hospital at about 3 a.m. after being shot somewhere near East Colfax Avenue and Lima Street, police reported.

“The man has serious injuries and remains hospitalized at this time,” police said in a social media post. “There is no suspect information currently.”

Police said anyone with information can call Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

— Sentinel Staff

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ourage can be hard to summon knowing that death is at hand walking across a plank between skyscrapers — or just across a suburban street.

You don’t have to imagine the thrill and fear of seeing a wobbly plank at your feet, with miniature cars crawling along on the street far below. Superb virtual reality systems, complete with breezes and swooping birds, easily prompt racing hearts and ear-splitting screams.

The thrill and fear end as soon as the headsets come off. That’s not the case with unsighted people.

Colorado’s blind residents have been summoning superhuman courage for generations, and they continue to make history.

A blind woman from Aurora recently made history telling the tales of blind residents from long ago.

Three people with different perspectives about Taylor Aguilar shares an the “art” of blindness offer differing insights for intimate moment with her everyone.

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mom, Julie Aragon, before flying out to California along with her husband and ninemonths-old daughter, July 26, 2023, at the Colorado Springs Airport. Aguilar’s close connection with her family allows her to be planned and organized for long distance trips while having various baggage to remember.

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>>>>The Blind History Lady Author Peggy Chong has penned a history of blind people across generations of Colorado residents, helping readers discover just how courageous so many have been. She says her ultimate goal is to make life better for unsighted people now.

In her book, “Cornerstones: Building the History of the Blind of Colorado,” she revisits heroic people like Judy Miller-Sanders. Chong recaptures Miller-Sanders’ journey to earning the right to be a blind teacher in the Cherry Creeks schools

system in 1973.

For generations, assistance to blind people, and those with other disabilities came in drips and trickles, until July 26, 1990, when the Americans with Disabilities Act became law.

While the act was not a panacea, life for the blind before the vast federal mandate was filled with endless risks and few opportunities, Chong says in her book.

The book describes heroic Coloradans who didn’t wait for the ADA, they pushed toward it, one victory at a time.

In a society that is visually driven, and often barely accommodating to the unsighted, Chong says it would be wise to seek the insight of people who have a different take on “seeing is believing.”

In a home with walls painted bright blue and pink, Chong recalls how she came to dust off records of blind people.

The effort won her recognition as Aurora’s “Blind History Lady’ with the Jacob Bolotin Award at the annual convention of the National Federation of the Blind earlier this year. She won a $5,000 research grant for more work.

Peggy says she’s on a mission to document Colorado’s blind-residents’ achievements, helping to offer credit where it’s due.

With one partially-sighted eye and one blind from birth, Peggy builds a bridge between sighted people and blind people by writing about her historical data find.

It almost didn’t happen.

Under leaky water pipes at the Colorado Center for the Blind, a vast history was stashed in a void filled with letters and documents only threads away from disintegration, caused by a flood at the school.

“When we moved to Colorado five years ago, I learned of the flood, and from that unearthed all these papers…several were ruined but five boxes were not. Many of them were in handwriting, so we got it all digitized,” Chong said. “Even if they are digitized, the material was not accessible to blind people, our own history to read about.”

During the pandemic, volunteers worked on transcribing and uploading thousands of files to a free online library for the blind.

“One file was Elias M. Ammons, who was Governor as a blind person for the state of Colorado in 1913, which many people didn’t realize,” Peggy said. “He had no trouble going to the mountains, cutting trees and bringing the lumber back to Denver, but he didn’t think he could be a newspaper guy.”

Ammons was also responsible for the infamous Ludlow Massacre, ordering state troops to attack during a labor uprising. Ammons could see partially, but not enough to read or recognize people in a room.

“It is always the famous ones you hear like Helen Keller or Harriet Tubman; Hollywood gives a very inaccurate way of portraying life as a blind person; they like to think we are sexless or clueless,” Peggy said. “They were ancestors with talents and accomplishments who led a normal life.

They have taken up jobs like piano tuners, movie theater owners, or sculptors.”

Cruise control was created for the sighted, it was made by a blind inventor, Ralph Teetor.

And not every invention for or from the blind is always helpful, she said. When it comes to the

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Peggy Chong, the blind history lady, showcase a children braille learning and coloring book with raised font markings for touch sensation in her office room, July 17, 2023. The design allows for sighted parents to read the top as they’re kids feel the braille alphabet to follow along at the bottom of the page. Photo By Tri Duong

use of text to speech and speech to text, they are widely used, but there are flaws to the design.

“Not every website developer takes into consideration… how alternative text is implemented in their design. Sometimes the text-to-speech malfunctions and announces words like “click here,” “button” or coding languages,” Chong said.

Peggy said technology is a two-way street because it helps us communicate with ease, but it can also slowly take away jobs that blind people have adapted to in the past.

“Take for instance a piano tuner. There wouldn’t be a need for one if computers can do that with speed, accuracy, and it never sleeps,” Peggy said. “Jobs that we have learned with no sight are easily replaceable, so where does that leave us?”

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The blind history lady, Peggy Chong feels the texture of the birds from her favorite sculpture in the house, July 19, 2023. “This was given to us by an artist, Ann Cunningham, she recreated a place that is dear to our family and was our home for many years, Diamond Head, Hawaii,” Chong said. Photo By Tri Duong

Jacob Bolotin Award given to Peggy Chong, the blind history lady, for the dedication of her work to document stories of blind people, July 17, 2023.

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Most people at the airport wear a deadpan face, their sight spent looking down at ubiquitous flooring bathed in artificial light.

Not Taylor Aguilar. She drinks in everything around her.

With bags packed, color coded and organized for travel, Taylor Aguilar’s newly found motherhood is an experience many would not imagine to be in, but her smile is unlike others.

Taylor’s loss of vision started in one eye when she was 13 and progressed to the other eye after a treatment for a medical condition known as pseudotumor cerebri in 2020, which further damaged her optic nerves.

At the time, she was pursuing a master’s degree in narrative filmmaking at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles — filming an autobiography titled “Sol” as her thesis.

Production came to a halt while Taylor went off to spend time at Colorado Center for the Blind. Her days of creating films slowly faded as a new reality of learning to live again became center stage - as if walking for the first time again.

Last year, there was a baby that came into the picture and her life.

With new insights into life from the unseen, she came back to finish the project, which required much traveling between

her hometown of Pueblo and Los Angeles.

This journey to complete her project will soon be featured in a documentary known as “Taylor’s Vision.” A film by Steve Weiss, a former instructor of Aguilar in 2016 when she attended Colorado State University.

It was in stark contrast to days when she was losing her eyesight while undergoing treatment.

“After four weeks of treatment, I was at a complete loss of independence. My mom held onto my arms,” Taylor said. “I saw so many things, but it was not how you see reality, it was like someone kept switching out filters to different colors and focusing and unfocusing.”

Through the help of Colorado Center for the Blind programs, she has learned the modern braille system, and how to use a walking stick. She’s created a formula for environmental awareness in solo travels.

She has an Apple iPhone and watch and Siri with her wherever she walks — being able to use voice commands for a variety of tasks.

Life as a blind person came slowly and not altogether easily.

“It was harder to be distracted by social media, I didn’t have a fear of missing out when it started because everyone was locked inside, but that changed as the restrictions were slowly lifted and I never got to see what the world going back to normal looks like,” Aguilar said. “In dealing with classes, I was able to not skip a beat because of the privilege of having my family being able to hire a scribe.”

Taylor said that part of her journey now is being able to connect with her daughter, Violet, to make sure they can both navigate the two different worlds they see.

“I love to hold my baby, it is one of the most precious feelings, even though I might not see her, I talk to her and laugh with her,” Taylor said.

The Navigator - Mental health professionals With experience of being a blind parent, Oleg Turayev, a psychiatrist based in Broomfield, has worked with the visually impaired for 15 years.

He knows what it’s like first hand.

His best advice? Parents should have more touch interac-

tion while communicating with their children.

“My wife said that our sons started to talk to people as if they are blind, staring off into nowhere like how I look when I talk, so we had to teach them that it is still polite to look at people when talking,” Turayev said.

“In this case, because both parents are blind, it is important to teach the child to understand patience while growing up.”

Robin Ennis, a clinical social worker and therapist from Practice at a Glance in Englewood, recently went to a theater to watch the Barbie movie with the help of image and audio descriptions – she thought it was a wonderful storyline to experience.

Ennis’s complete vision loss started at the age of 18, however, she has managed to climb two mountain peaks and is continuing education to aid others to feel a sense of normalcy or to create grounding techniques through focused senses.

“The ADA is important, but another big one introduced is the 21st Century Communication and Video Accessibility Act (CVAA), which by law states all movie theaters have to provide accommodation for disabilities,” Ennis said.

In the end scene of “Barbie,” the protagonist finally closes her eyes and realizes what it is to really feel and sense something different than the sight of Barbieland. It is an opening to the unknown that reveals to be the most meaningful metaphor.

Ennis and Turyev both agreed that it is blessed to not be able to use social media like everyone that was sighted. It felt freeing being able to stay in tune with what really mattered, they said.

Turayev, however, says he looks forward to creating new kinds of navigation for the blind, like wherever you point a phone it will recognizes objects and announce what is in front.

It would be a huge boon to helping blind people get work.

According to the American Community Survey, 44% of people who are blind are employed and 10% are unemployed.

The blind, like the sighted, are among those who look back wistfully being careful what they wished for. The blind needs new technology that won’t make jobs they can do easier to do without humans.

“It is a fear to be replaced, but we should be optimistic to know it is only a tool to help people,” Ennis said.

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Glow Flow: Blacklight Vinyasa at Yogi Colorado

11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. Oct. 28 at 15405 E Briarwood Cir, Aurora, CO 80016. Visit http://alturl.com/62vbq for more information.

So, if you find yourself the type to dress up your pets, this particular event is right up your alley. Wag n Wash is having a party and costume contest for your pups. The event will feature fun games and prizes, and the aforementioned family/pet costume contest. The judging begins at 2:00 p.m. but the event starts well before then. So stop on by and party with the like minded pet owners and be prepared to match your furry friends for the costume contest.

Trick-Or-Treat Trail at Denver Zoo

5:45 p.m. to 6:45 p.m. Oct. 27 at 15200 E Girard Ave # 2700, Aurora, CO 80014. Visit http://alturl. com/6bb6m for more information.

Vinyasa Yoga is a form that links the exercises with best breathing practices, linked in a flowing sequence. Throw in some blacklights and reactive clothing into the mix and you quite possibly could be met with illuminated form of the next level.

Yogi Colorado is turning on the studios blacklights for this particular class, that costs $26 to attend.

They’re suggesting you arrive early so you can get your hands on some glowsticks to increase the visual stimulation to this exciting class.

Make sure you wear your most reactive clothing if you plan on attending, whites or neons tend to react the best to the glowing UV lights.

5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. each weekend until Halloween as well as Oct. 31. 2300 Steele St. Denver, CO 80205. Visit www.denverzoo.org for more information.

Kiddies grab your pails and parents be prepared to trek around the 84 acres of Denver Zoo to celebrate the season. Nine candy stations and a bevy of spooky surprises await to satisfy even the greatest sweet tooth.

The $20 entry fee not only gets you refined sugary snacks, but there will also be a silent disco, photo ops with characters and Halloween sets, a trick-or-treat bag, and for the adults, on theme spooky cocktails.

The admission is based on time slots, so be sure to check out the link to reserve your entry time.

Ghosts in the Gardens - Open Air Scare at the Denver Botanic Gardens

Times vary with tours on Oct. 26 through Oct. 29 at 1007 York St. Denver, CO 80206. Visit www.botanicgardens.org/events/special-events/ ghosts-gardens for more information.

It’s spooky season, as we all know by now. And the Denver Botanic Gardens has a frightfully fun event running the last few days before All Hallow’s Eve. The gardens invite you to stroll through the dark paths of the gardens after the sun goes down and hear tales of first had encounters by staff, including the security guards that are there in the late hours of the night into the witching hour of the morning.

The self-guided tour takes approximately an hour and a half and the speakers can be visited in whatever order you prefer.

Put your bravery to the test as you will no doubt hear spine tingling tales of what goes on in the area formerly known as “The Boneyard.”

Afterall, it is directly adjacent to the undoubtedly haunted Cheesman Park.

You’re going to want to get your tickets in advance, as the availability for each time slot is limited.

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Denver Christmas Show at the Colorado Convention Center

9:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. Nov. 3 and Nov. 4. 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. Nov. 5 at 700 14th St, Denver, CO 80202.

Visit www.denverchristmasshow. com for more information.

Well, October is almost over, so I reckon it’s time we make you attune to the Christmas activities right around the bend.

We’re gonna start with the Denver Christmas Show at the Colorado Convention Center, the first weekend of November.

Hall A will be packed to the brim with holiday shopping, holiday carolers, enough candy to make the risk of diabetes worth it, and of course, Kris Kringle.

There will also be a shopper lounge to give the legs a rest after you’ve gone from edge to edge of Hall A taking care of your holiday shopping.

You’ll also have the opportunity to chop it up with local authors, and we are all about supporting local talents here at the Sentinel.

Admission is $16 online and $17 at the door. Children under 13 get in free.

Treat Street at Arapahoe County Fairgrounds

11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Oct. 21st and 22nd 25690 E Quincy Ave, Aurora, CO 80016. Visit www.arapahoecountyeventcenter.com for more information.

Catered to be a perfect family event, Treat Street returns to the Arapahoe County Fairgrounds, and it will be two days filled with tons of events for all ages. Highlights include a bounce house, live bluegrass, a petting farm, pumpkin painting, food trucks, a beer garden and most importantly, Trick or Treating booths from more than 20 local businesses.

Entry is $5 for adults in costume and free for children 12 and under in costume and $10 for adults not in costume and $5 for kids not in costume. And your costume won’t go to waste, since there will be a costume contest. Moral here though is don’t be a drip, and wear a costume so you can get some deep discounts on entry.

Phamaly’s Indescribable featuring The Silhouettes at Aurora Fox

7:30 Nov. 3, 2:00 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. Nov. 4, 2:00 p.m. Nov. 5 at 9900 E. Colfax Ave. Aurora, CO 80010. Visit www.aurorafoxartscenter.com for more information.

Phamaly, the disability theatre company, is collaborating with the runner up from season 6 of America’s Got Talent, The Silhouette’s, to produce the first ever dance production in Phamaly’s history.

The story follows two children, Destiny and Amor, as they set sail across the seas in a pirate ship. A storm destroys the vessel and separates the two friends, with Destiny and Amor going on a journey through magical and enchanted lands as they search to find one another.

Phamaly Theatre Company requests that if you are planning to attend the Saturday afternoon performance to be prepared to don a mask, valuing the safety of the performers and artists.

Harvest Hoot at Children’s Museum of Denver at Marisco Campus

9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. Oct. 27 -Oct. 29 at 2121 Children’s Museum Dr, Denver, CO 80211. Visit www.mychildsmuseum.org/events for more information.

The Harvest Hoot is sure to be a frightfully enjoyable event for the kiddos this spooky season. The event will feature fun-filled fall activities such as carnival games, spoooooky arts and crafts and creepy cooking recipes in The Teaching Kitchen.

There will not, however, be any trick or treating at this event. But that shouldn’t discourage you from bringing the baby ghouls to enjoy a fun-filled holiday event.

Who wants to worry about those cavities anyways.

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Voters deciding, city, school and state questions Election Day is Tuesday, Nov. 7, but registered voters in Colorado will start receiving mail-in ballots after Oct. 16. Colorado began statewide vote by mail in 2013, although some counties adopted mail ballots before that.

Security Are drop boxes safe from tampering?

Yes, according to the Secretary of State’s Office. They are under 24-hour video surveillance and are emptied every day by a team of bipartisan election judges. The sturdy, metal boxes are bolted to the ground.

If I send my ballot back by mail, will it get there?

The Secretary of State recommends delivering ballots in person in the final eight days before the election. If you mail them before that, they should arrive in time.

We know voters and potential voters will have questions about how voter registration works, how mail-in ballots work, how ballots are counted and more. The Colorado News Collaborative and its members, including Sentinel Colorado, want to answer those questions. We contacted the Secretary of State’s Office, county clerks and other resources to respond.

When do elections officials start counting our ballots?

Elections officials may start counting ballots 15 days ahead of the election. But first, elections officials must verify the voter signature on the envelope. (See below for information about how signatures are verified.) The early counting relieves some of the Election Day crush, but no results will be made public until after polls close at 7 p.m. Nov. 7.

Not even elections officials know the results until then because computer software prevents the count from being revealed until after polls close. Even with the head start in the count, full results in super-close contests still might take a few days.

Voter Information • Arapahoe County voter information visit: www.arapahoevotes.com • Adams County voter information visit: www.adamsvotes.com • Denver voter information visit: www.denvergov.org/Government/ • Douglas County voter information visit: www.douglas.co.us/elections • Jefferson County voter information visit: www.jeffco.us/396/Elections

Registration How do I know if I’m registered to vote?

GoVoteColorado has a range of information on registration,

Ballots including the ability to register to vote if you have a Colorado driver’s license or ID card.

What’s the difference between an “active” voter and an “inactive” voter?

A voter is considered active if they’ve voted in the most recent elections or updated their address or other registration information. A voter is considered inactive if their county clerk receives returned mail marked “undeliverable.”

Under federal law, clerks must wait two general election cycles before removing inactive voters from the database. Again, you may check GoVoteColorado to see if your registration is active and update your information if it isn’t.

What if I’ve moved?

This link also will allow you to change your address: www.sos. state.co.us/voter/pages/pub/ olvr/findVoterReg.xhtml What if my name changed?

You’ll need to fill out this form and take it to your county clerk or mail it to the Colorado Secretary of State: www.sos.state.co.us/pubs/ elections/vote/VoterRegFormEnglish.pdf

How long do I have to register?

You must register by Oct. 31 to get a ballot in the mail (but you’ll need to return it to a vote center or drop box). But you may register and vote in person at vote centers through 7 p.m. on Election Day.

What signature is used to validate the one on my returned ballot envelope? My signature has changed over time.

The most recent signature on a state transaction is used as a reference — typically a recent driver’s license or the signature on the last ballot you returned. All past signatures are available for election judges to review.

If election judges question your signature, you’ll get a notice from your clerk within three days (two if it occurs on Election Day) and you’ll have eight days to verify the signature is yours.

Do I have to request a ballot from my county clerk or the Secretary of State?

Not if you’re an active registered voter. County clerks automatically will begin mailing ballots to active registered voters on Oct. 8. Again, a voter is considered active if they’ve voted in the most recent general elections or updated their address or other registration information.

When will I get my ballot in the mail?

The first day ballots may be mailed is Oct. 8, and they must be sent out by Oct. 16 at the latest. If you sign up for ballot tracking, you’ll get an alert when your ballot is in the mail.

How do I know if my ballot was received?

Voters statewide may sign up to track your ballot online. You’ll get notifications via email, text message or phone (you may choose) when your ballot is mailed, and

when it has been received and accepted. A dozen Colorado counties already offered ballot tracking, so if you’re already signed up, there’s no need to do it again.

How do I return my ballot?

Ballots must arrive at a vote center or county clerk’s office by 7 p.m. Nov. 7. You may mail your ballot back, if there’s enough time for it to arrive. Remember: postmarks don’t count, according to the Secretary of State. The ballot has to be in the physical possession of elections officials on Election Day — not sitting in a blue box somewhere in the metroplex.

You may also deliver it to drop boxes at your county clerk’s office or other locations in your county.

About 75% of Colorado voters return their mail ballots to drop boxes, according to the Secretary of State’s office.

What if I don’t get my ballot?

Check GoVoteColorado to see if your ballot has been mailed. If it has been mailed and you haven’t received it, contact your county clerk’s office and ask. Not every county will send ballots out the first day possible. But they need to hear from you if you don’t receive yours.

I won’t be here during the time ballots are mailed out?

Can I get a ballot earlier? Or have one mailed to a different address?

Yes. And, as of now, you may be able to pick up a ballot before you leave. Contact your county clerk to work out details if you want to pick up a ballot or have it mailed to a different address.

What prevents me or anyone from voting twice: in person and by mail?

First, envelopes the ballots are returned in have barcodes unique to the individual. When the envelopes are received by clerks, they are scanned in and poll books are updated to show that the person has voted. So if someone sent in their mail ballot and it was processed, and then showed up to vote at a polling place, the poll worker checking them in would be able to see that they had already voted. Or, if the person votes early at a polling place, then also casts their mail ballot, their mail ballot will not be accepted for counting.

It is illegal to vote more than once. If someone votes in person and by mail, county clerks are required to provide that information to the district attorney or state attorney general for prosecution.

I don’t want to vote by mail. I want to vote in person.

Colorado will open hundreds of voting centers and drop boxes the last week of October. You may vote there in person starting then through 7 p.m. Election Day with some limited weekend hours.

How can I be sure my vote is counted on Election Day? Sign up to track your ballot. If it doesn’t arrive within a few days of being mailed, contact your county clerk. Return your ballot to a drop box or through the mail, and the ballot tracking system will let you know when your ballot is accepted. That means your vote will be counted.

Here’s a tip: The sooner you return your ballot, the sooner the texts, emails and phone calls nagging you to vote will stop. Campaigns and political parties get information daily on who has voted, and they stop contacting those voters.

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Cherry Creek school board candidate memoir discloses ‘sexual misconduct,’ views on race “I use the word ‘penis.’ I said I touched my penis to her hair.

Is that graphic?”

McKenna asked.

— BY KRISTIN OH, Sentinel Staff Writer

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retired Navy pilot running for a seat on the Cherry Creek schools board is drawing scrutiny for self-admitted past acts of indecent exposure and sexual “misconduct” described in his 2022 memoir.

Steve McKenna, a former flight instructor and retired lawyer, is challenging incumbent Anne Egan to represent District A for Cherry Creek School District.

McKenna writes that he and his friends were “quaffing beers” when he “spied a shapely young woman” while they were attending the Tailhook convention. A flight instructor dared him to touch the woman’s hair with his penis, which he did, he said in the book.

McKenna said he published his

memoir, “Fair Winds, Following Seas and a Few Bolters,” before knowing he was going to run for the school board. McKenna said he wrote his memoir because he wanted to share a message about dealing with the “inevitable boulders in life.”

The autobiography meanders through a medley of topics pertinent to his school board race, including the roles of the sexes, and that he refutes assertions that systemic racism exists in this country.

In Chapter 15 of his memoir, he confesses to sexually touching a woman without her consent at a September 1991 Las Vegas convention. The infamous confab eventually became known as the Tailhook Scandal, where several Navy and Marine Corps officers were accused of sexually assaulting 83 women and three men.

He moved away from the woman as she turned around. Despite writing that he felt remorseful immediately after touching her, McKenna did not apologize to the woman at the time. Instead, he went to his hotel room, called his

Former Navy pilot and Cherry Creek School Board candidate Steve Mckenna during a Sept. 27, 2023 school district candidate forum.

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then-girlfriend, Patricia, and then fell asleep.

McKenna said he now knows the woman’s name. He said he has

not sought her out to ask forgiveness.

“I didn’t feel there was a need to apologize,” McKenna said

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Aurora voters choosing city lawmakers amid bevy of regional challenges — BY MAX LEVY, Sentinel Staff Writer Aurora voters will get the chance to vote for mayor as well as two at-large Aurora City Council seats and seats representing wards IV, V and VI on Nov. 7.

Mayor Mike Coffman is running for re-election, as are council members Francoise Bergan, Alison Coombs, Curtis Gardner and Angela Lawson. Councilmember Juan Marcano hopes to unseat Coffman, as does outsider Jeff Sanford.

Also running for council seats are challengers Thomas Mayes, Jono Scott, Jon Gray, Stephanie Hancock, Chris Rhodes and Brian Matise.

The election comes at a time of heightened partisan tensions on the council, as members have clashed with one another over a proposal to empower the mayor and increasingly politicized social problems such as homelessness, police reform and rising crime.

The Race For Aurora Mayor The incumbent mayor, a council member and a second challenger will compete for the mayorship this fall

Mike Coffman, R-Incumbent Coffman was elected to the mayor’s office in 2019, the latest chapter in a political career that has taken the longtime Aurora resident from the statehouse to the halls of Congress. Coffman previously founded a property management company in Aurora and served in the U.S. Army and Marine Corps. In 2008, he left his position as Colorado’s Secretary of State to replace Tom Tancredo in the U.S. House of Representatives. Coffman served in Congress until 2018, when he was defeated by Democrat Jason Crow.

Juan Marcano, D-Challenger Marcano has served on the City Council since 2019, representing Ward IV in west Aurora. The child of Puerto Rican immigrants, Marcano was raised in Texas and worked as an architectural designer before stepping back to focus on his elected role. He has promoted a housing-first policy for addressing homelessness as well as progressive solutions to rising housing costs and public safety, frequently butting heads with the council’s conservative majority over social issues.

Jeff Sanford, D-Challenger Sanford was born in Denver and

served in the U.S. Air Force from 1984 to 2008. He earned his bachelor’s degree in applied science in technical management from American Military University in 2018. He has a professional background in public administration and civil service, previously working as the facility manager for Buckley Space Force Base. He said at a candidate forum in September that he has experience managing multi-billion dollar contracts and staffs including thousands of workers.

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ncumbent Republican Mike Coffman will face challenges from progressive Councilmember Juan Marcano and outsider Democrat Jeff Sanford this fall as Coffman’s first mayoral term comes to a close.

Coffman positioned himself as the architect of Aurora’s policy on homelessness during his first term, bringing forward a ban on homeless camping last year after it was rejected by a previous council and sponsoring the city’s “work-first” plan for addressing homelessness, which prioritizes connecting homeless people with jobs before other resources such as housing.

Although Coffman and the city have yet to quantify the impacts of the ban and accelerated sweeps of homeless encampments, he stood by the ban at a Sept. 28 candidate forum, saying he thought street homelessness would be worse if the city had never implemented a ban but also that it can be improved.

In his submission for the Sentinel’s 2023 election guide, Coffman said he wants to “rewrite” the ban to allow the city to perform abatements more quickly but not until the city has improved the mental health care, addiction recovery and job training resources available to homeless people. He also proposed setting up special courts to aid homeless people accused of low-level offenses.

Coffman also sponsored — behind the scenes, at first, and later openly — a ballot item asking voters to empower the city’s mayor. The item ultimately failed to make the ballot after supporters missed a procedural deadline.

While Coffman argued that swapping Aurora’s council-manager form of government for one led by a mayor with the powers of a city manager could promote accountability, Aurora City Council members on both sides of the aisle said it could also promote cronyism, denouncing it as a power-grab by Coffman. Sanford said Sept. 28 that he supports the idea of a strong mayor.

Marcano was among those council members who spoke out against the strong-mayor proposal. He also voted against the city’s camping ban and the mayor’s “work-first” plan for addressing homelessness, arguing instead for a “housing-first” model similar to the approach taken by cities such as Houston.

Marcano called the camping ban a “failure” in his election guide submission.

He said that, rather than see the city invest in encampment sweeps, he would like to see the city and other local jurisdictions pool their money for permanent supportive housing to accommodate the

chronically homeless as well as rapid re-housing for those at risk of becoming homeless.

Sanford proposes banning camping that impacts small businesses while also working with the counties to establish safe places for people to camp temporarily, where they can also receive services such as showers and information about other resources. Sanford also said Sept.

28 that he would call for a meeting on his first day as mayor with other mayors in the region to discuss the problem of homelessness.

On the topic of public safety, Sanford said he supported stiffer penalties for crimes such as vehicle and retail theft as well as investment in community assets like recreation centers, parks and open spaces.

He also questioned the extent to which Aurora police have lived up to expectations for reform following the death of Elijah McClain, saying in his election guide submission that he had “seen nothing that is data driven, progress or a willingness to change other than a reserve force with no plans, policies, procedures(,) cost or accountability.”

Coffman was more optimistic, saying in his submission that the city had made “significant progress” since the rollout of its consent decree agreement with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office.

He specifically mentioned the Aurora Police Department’s recent revision of its use of force guidelines as a sign of progress along with Aurora Fire Rescue’s decision to stop administering the sedative drug ketamine, which McClain was injected with prior to his death.

Coffman described his support for increasing penalties statewide for car thieves and felons caught with guns but said he also supports investing in after-school and summer activities for Aurora youths, particularly those at risk of getting involved in violence.

Marcano said he believes APD has made progress on reforms but that the department has been held back by police officers resisting changes included in the consent decree. He suggested reinstating a citizen group that had been tasked with making recommendations to improve the department and creating a civilian board to review use-of-force incidents in response to community concerns.

Marcano said he opposes “tough-oncrime” approaches to retail and vehicle theft, and instead suggested the city focus on guaranteeing good-paying jobs, programs for at-risk youths through local schools, job training and education for people involved in the criminal justice system, and affordable housing.

He and Coffman both wrote about using funds raised through Colorado’s Proposition 123 to fund affordable housing.

Marcano also said he wanted to roll back zoning policies that limit the construction of “missing middle” housing and commit city general funds to land banking, acquiring property and the creation of community land trusts.

In response to the question of what specific steps Sanford wanted to see the city take to promote affordable housing, Sanford asked how many available housing units belong to developers and said he would be interested in looking into landlease agreements with other jurisdictions to build housing in a manner similar to an agreement between Summit County

and the U.S. Forest Service allowing that county to build housing on National Forest land.

The Race for City Council At-Large, two seats Two current council members and two outsiders are facing off over just two at-large seats

Alison Coombs, D-Challenger Coombs hopes to trade her Ward V seat for an at-large position this fall. She was elected in 2019, defeating Republican incumbent Bob Roth, and she works as a program manager for a residential program serving adults with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She is the first openly LGBTQ+ person to serve on Aurora’s City Council.

Curtis Gardner, R-Incumbent Gardner is running for re-election to the at-large seat that he was first elected to in 2019. He has lived in Aurora most of his life. Gardner holds a master’s degree in finance and worked at a local credit union for 14 years before accepting his current job as a local government liaison in the solid waste industry.

Thomas Mayes, D-Challenger Mayes, pastor of Living Waters Christian Center Church in Aurora, is running again for a seat on Aurora’s City Council.

He has been an active part of the Aurora community for years, including serving as a community liaison for the Aurora Police Department following the 2012 theater shooting and as part of the Community Advisory Council currently involved in the implementation of APD’s consent decree.

Jono Scott, R-Challenger Scott also plans on returning to the Aurora political stage this fall to run for a seat on Aurora’s city council. The pastor and director of a local food bank has lived in Aurora for more than 30 years and holds a master’s degree in religious education as well as an undergraduate degree in biblical studies.

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emocrat Alison Coombs and Republican Curtis Gardner are seeking re-election to the council this fall, facing off against challengers Thomas Mayes, a Democrat, and Jono Scott, a Republican, for two at-large seats.

Gardner currently serves as an at-large councilor, and Coombs hopes to trade her Ward V seat for an at-large seat this fall.

Mayes previously ran for an at-large seat in 2019, while Scott last ran to represent Ward III in 2021. Neither earned a seat on the council.

The four candidates have articulated different visions for citywide priorities such as public safety and affordable housing. Democrats Coombs and Mayes both said they think the city should invest in

economic development and social services such as housing to deter crime.

Coombs said she would like to see the city fully staff the Aurora Mobile Response Team, which sends mental health clinicians out with paramedics and EMTs to help people experiencing mental health problems, allowing police to focus on emergency calls related to crime.

She also advocated for creating safe spaces for youths and said the Aurora Police Department should hire more civilians to take care of some of the non-law enforcement work that is currently done by police.

Mayes said he thought the city should invest in crime prevention as well as law enforcement but warned that the city “can’t police or arrest our way out of this phenomenon.”

In his submission to the Sentinel, Gardner mentioned his sponsorship of an ordinance designed to deter catalytic converter theft by more closely regulating sales as well as his support for laws like

the city’s new mandatory minimum sentencing schedule for vehicle thefts, which Coombs opposed.

Gardner said he believes the city should invest in policing as well as social programs such as job training and education to deter crime, saying “these pathways allow young people to avoid the prison pipeline to get into good jobs, whether via more traditional schooling or skilled labor.”

Scott said he believes the city should take an approach toward crime that is “preventative, proactive and punitive,” including introducing stricter criminal penalties and ensuring the Aurora Police Department is fully funded and staffed.

While he said APD has seen benefits from its consent decree with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office, he said he looked forward to the conclusion of the agreement since “we have a police department that is well respected by our community.”

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to see the city streamline its development review process to make it easier to build affordable housing. The two also said they would support approaching state leaders to lobby for changing Colorado’s current construction defect laws, which opponents say have limited the construction of multi-family housing such as condominiums.

Scott said he would like to see the city build more housing units for all income levels while being mindful of water resources and available infrastructure.

On the topic of affordable housing, Mayes said he believed the city should pursue a “housing-first” approach toward the homeless and partner with community organizations that offer services such as rental assistance, education for prospective homeowners and loans.

Coombs said she believes the city should continue down the path of its housing strategy adopted in 2020 and that Aurora should pool its money with local counties and the Aurora Housing Authority.

She also said the city should redirect the money spent on sweeping homeless camps and reevaluate its plan to build a central campus for homelessness services so that as much money as possible is dedicated to placing homeless people in stable housing.

The race for City Council Ward IV A county employee and former teacher faces the president of the Aurora Cultural Arts District in Ward IV

Jon Gray, D-challenger Gray was born in Denver and attended Englewood High School, going on to obtain degrees in sociology and business management from Mesa State College and Metropolitan State University of Denver. He worked in the nonprofit sector and as an Aurora Public Schools teacher for several years before moving into a role in the finance division of the Arapahoe County Department of Human Services.

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Stephanie Hancock, R-challenger Hancock brings years of experience in the business and arts communities, having co-founded 5280 Artist Co-Op and serving as president of the Aurora Cultural Arts District. She is a graduate of Texas Southern University and a U.S. Air Force veteran, and she has lived in Aurora for more than 30 years. ›› See CITY ELECTION, 21

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emocrat Jon Gray and Republican Stephanie Hancock are contesting the Ward IV seat being vacated by Juan Marcano this fall, each seeking their first term in office.

On his campaign website, Gray identified some of his top legislative priorities as improving public safety, public health and economic vitality in the ward centered on the Heather Ridge and Village East neighborhoods in west Aurora.

Gray advocated for building trust and cooperation between community members and the Aurora Police Department as a first step toward identifying and addressing public safety problems. He described wanting to expand the Police Area Representatives program in Ward IV while “decreasing the police presence in communities of color” to address crime.

Gray also expressed skepticism toward the department’s efforts to rebuild trust following the death of Elijah McClain in the election guide materials submitted to the Sentinel, saying there “seems to be little adherence to the policy standards, and there is a lot more work to be done.”

On the topic of traffic fatalities, he said he wanted to explore slowing traffic on arterial roads and installing traffic calming measures in residential areas with high rates of crashes.

Gray said on his website that he would prioritize public health by reaching out to the county and nonprofits to address environmental problems and provide services for the homeless, poor and people experiencing physical and mental health conditions.

He also said that he would promote economic vitality by investing in food programs serving families, supporting affordable housing to reduce the cost of living and increasing Aurora’s minimum wage to at least $17.29 per hour to keep pace with Denver.

Hancock said on her website that her focuses if elected will include housing affordability, public safety and economic growth. She argued that Colorado’s construction defect laws are an obstacle to building more multifamily housing and also said the pre-building permitting process can stifle development in some cases.

She said improving the economy of the city as a whole would also help with the shortage of available housing, and that encouraging business and industry will grow the city’s tax base.

Hancock said one of the things driving businesses away from the city currently is crime. She said she supports the police department’s PAR program as a vehicle for building trust between officers and community members and said outreach work can and should happen in tandem with enforcing the law.

She said she believes a sense of impunity among criminals is driving rates of crimes such as theft and assault, and the law should be “enforced swiftly with perpetrators required to pay restitution for their crimes.”

Hancock said she also supports mentorship and training programs for middle and high school students that open up opportunities in trade and industry jobs.

In the interest of public safety, she said the city should partner with churches and nonprofits to do more outreach to young people.

The race for City Council Ward V An at-large council member hopes to represent Ward V, but so does a local union organizer

Angela Lawson, U-challenger Lawson is running for a third term on Aurora’s City Council, this year as a voice for Aurora’s southwest ward rather than an at-large representative. She has lived in Aurora’s Ward V for more than two decades and holds master’s degrees in social science, public administration and public policy. Lawson previously worked in the Colorado Secretary of State’s office, where she oversaw the Elections Division’s lobbyist registration program.

Chris Rhodes, D-challenger Rhodes, a union organizer, seeks a seat on the council to participate in what Democrats hope will be a new, progressive majority come November. He describes coming from a working-class background on his campaign website and says his time in Aurora has been spent unionizing the lowest-paying jobs for United Airlines at Denver International Airport and organizing in Aurora around economic justice issues.

He holds a degree in social studies education from Purdue University.

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naffiliated conservative Angela Lawson is seeking re-election to the Aurora City Council this fall, facing off against Democratic challenger Chris Rhodes for the seat representing Aurora’s southwest ward.

Lawson currently serves as an at-large representative on the council. In her submission for the Sentinel’s 2023 election guide, she identified public safety, transportation and housing as her top priorities in what she hopes will be her next term.

Lawson said she believes tougher criminal penalties can work to discourage the perpetrators of certain crimes, particularly repeat offenders. However, she advocated for a restorative justice approach to less serious, non-violent crimes, under which restitution and offenders making amends to their victims would be prioritized.

She said the city should incorporate rehabilitating offenders, law enforcement, and community and business outreach into its strategy for addressing crime.

Lawson argued in favor of traffic calming strategies to improve transportation safety in Ward V on her campaign website.

She also advocated for investing in neighborhood streets and promoting transit access to accommodate demand and reduce

road congestion.

On the topic of housing, she said Aurora should focus on obtaining and keeping property in a land bank to be used for affordable housing projects. She also advocated for reviewing the city’s zoning rules and permitting process to avoid inconveniencing developers, supporting programs that help families with low-to-moderate incomes become homeowners, and lobbying state leaders to reconsider Colorado’s construction defect laws.

Rhodes said in his submission to the Sentinel that he would also like to see Aurora promoting denser development in the less densely-developed southern half of the city through zoning reform. He said he believed the majority of construction in the city should be mixed-use and multifamily housing developments.

He also said the city should invest in land banking and public housing if private developers are unable to keep up with the demand for affordable housing.

Rhodes also said he would prioritize increasing trust between the community and public safety agencies, and implementing a “housing-first” approach to homelessness if he is elected.

While he said police have made “some” progress toward reform, he said he wants to work with city management and police leaders to promote transparency and address a policing culture that he described as “us versus them.”

Rhodes said he is opposed to the city’s camping ban and believes the city should instead be focused on providing housing to the homeless to put them on a path toward stability. He also said the city should continue to invest in supportive services and programs that prevent people from being evicted from their homes.

The race for City Council Ward VI The current Ward VI council member must stave off a Democrat challenger to win re-election

Francoise Bergan, R-challenger Bergan is running for a third term on the council, representing the ward that encompasses the southeast part of the city. She was appointed by the council to serve as mayor pro tem in 2021 and 2022, and previously worked in management and consulting. She said her tenure on council reflects her advocacy for the city’s new southeast Aurora recreation center, efforts to combat street racing and support of new parks and trails in her ward.

Brian Matise, D-challenger Matise is a retired attorney and an Aurora resident of more than 20 years

challenging Bergan for the Ward VI seat this fall. Matise specialized in commercial litigation, product liability mass tort litigation and class actions. He is also an expert in special districts and has sued several metropolitan districts on behalf of homeowners.

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epublican Francoise Bergan will try to defend her Ward VI seat against a challenge from Democrat Brian Matise, highlighting the differences between the two candidates’ vision for the city.

Bergan said in her submission for the Sentinel’s 2023 election guide that promoting housing, public safety and transportation safety will be her top priorities if re-elected.

She said she is interested in seeking grant funding and working with the Aurora Housing Authority to build affordable housing, but said se does not “endorse creating affordable housing by putting the burden on the backs of market rate homebuyers,” which is a common criticism by opponents of policies that mandate the construction of affordable housing alongside market-rate units.

Bergan said she also supported the city accessing funds for affordable housing through the state’s Proposition 123.

On her campaign website, she said she has also investigated developer concerns about burdensome regulations and processes that have limited construction.

Bergan said she supports both enhanced criminal penalties and services such as education and job training as ways of discouraging criminal behavior, but said she believes counties should fund and manage those social programs. She also said she supports the Aurora Police Department’s Police Area Representatives program and the work of school resource officers, which she said help preempt serious crime.

On the topic of transportation, she said she supports the city investing in projects such as the widening of Gun Club Road, completing the Aurora Parkway extension with an overpass and improving the bridge at Gartrell Road.

Matise said his priorities if elected will include protecting the area of the Aurora Reservoir in Ward VI from oil and gas drilling by enforcing a setback around the body of water.

He also advocated for neighborhood-level solutions to public safety challenges, such as setting up neighborhood watch groups and license-plate readers, and expanding the police department’s PAR program.

He rejected the idea that harsher criminal penalties deter criminals and said the city should invest more in youth activities and after-school to prevent more people from getting involved with the criminal justice system.

Matise criticized the city’s Aurora Places master plan for zoning which he said “allows almost any type of development, promoting urban sprawl.”

He said the city should promote the area around the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus as a hub for biotechnology and also advocate for the creation of a tech center building near Denver International Airport or Buckley Space Force Base as well as a performing arts venue near the intersection of Interstate 70 and E-470.

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CHERRY CREEK SCHOOLS BOARD ELECTION — BY KRISTIN OH, Sentinel Staff Writer

Cherry Creek candidates sort through a district finding its way post-pandemic The most recent school board election cycle in 2021 was dominated by discussion of COVID-19 policy and culture war issues such as the alleged teaching of critical race theory in schools, but locally, Republicans failed to make gains in either district two years ago by capitalizing on those issues.

This year, major issues include youth mental health needs, declining enrollment in K-12 schools, calls for increases in teacher and staff pay as the cost of living continues to rise and the ongoing academic recovery from the pandemic years.

tion policy advisor for Gov. Roy Romer.

She also volunteered in schools and served on multiple district organizations such as the Parent-Teacher Community Organization and Cherry Creek Community Legislative Network. She received the Exceptional Volunteer Award from the district twice, once while serving on the board of education.

During the Oct. 10 candidate forum, which was hosted by the school district, Egan indicated that she was endorsed by the Cherry Creek Education Association.

Steve McKenna - Challenger McKenna is a former Navy pilot, flight instructor and attorney. He is campaigning with District C challenger Scott Graves. According to his campaign website, which he shares Graves, two of his three children attended district schools.

During multiple candidate forums, McKenna said that the school district is leaving too many students behind, and that he wants to focus on academic excellence. He also wants the district to bring back valedictorian distinction.

McKenna said that while he and his wife were involved with their children, he spent most of his volunteer hours doing pro-bono work as an attorney rather than serving in schools. He has also said that he has only attended a few school board meetings before running for office.

During the Oct. 10 candidate forum, McKenna indicated that he received money from the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network.

The Race for The Race for Director A Seat Director C Two people are competing to represent District A in the Cherry Creek Board of Education. The district encompasses Willow Creek Elementary School, Cherry Hills Village Elementary School, Holly Hills Elementary School and Cherry Creek High School.

Incumbent Anne Egan is running for re-election. She has been serving the board since 2019. Steve McKenna is the only candidate challenging Egan for the seat.

Anne Egan - Incumbent Egan and her husband, Shaun, specifically moved to Cherry Creek School District in 2000. According to her campaign website, all four of her children graduated from Cherry Creek Schools.

Her priorities, according to her campaign website, are: hiring and retaining teachers; continuing to provide diverse pathways at the Cherry Creek Innovation Campus; and providing safety, security and mental health resources at schools.

She previously worked as the educa-

Two people are vying to represent District C in the Cherry School Board of Education. The district encompasses Dakota Valley Elementary School, Arrowhead Elementary School, Mission Viejo Elementary School and Smoky Hill High School.

Incumbent Angela Garland is running for re-election. She has been serving on the board since Nov. 2019. She is campaigning against challenger Scott Graves, a former band teacher.

Angela Garland - Incumbent Garland has been serving on the board of education since 2019.

Garland has four children. She has also served on multiple district organizations such as the safety and security taskforce, the District Accountability Committee and Cherry Creek Community Legislative Network.

She lists multiple priorities on her candidate website. Some of them include: inspiring every student to think

Former Navy pilot and Cherry Creek School Board candidate Steve McKenna during a Sept. 27, 2023 school district candidate forum.

Photo by PHILIP B. POSTON/Sentinel Colorado

and learn, valuing each and every student, high quality, professional educators and responding to families.

She indicated that she was endorsed by the Cherry Creek Education Association during a candidate forum on Oct. 10.

Scott Graves - challenger Graves is challenging Garland to represent District C. According to his candidate website, he has five sons, three of whom graduated from district schools.

He was a former band teacher in Colorado and Texas according to his website. He said he was laid off in 2011 and then worked as a financial advisor.

Graves’ primary focus while campaigning has been the district’s budget and wanting the district to livestream their board meetings. He also said that he has only attended a few board meetings prior to running for office.

During candidate forums, Graves advocated for transparency from the board and said that they should livestream board meetings.

He also indicated that he received money from the Colorado Parent Advocacy Network.

No challenger in District B Ruthie Knowles is the sole candidate running to represent District B, which encompasses Highline Elementary School, Polton Elementary School and Overland High School. The seat was previously held by Director Janice McDonald, who served two terms.

According to her candidate website, Knowles has served on the Special Education Advisory Committee and School Accountability Committee.

She lists multiple priorities on her website. Some of them are: thriving neighborhood schools, expanding innovation, recruiting and retaining quality educators, pathways to success and accountability.

During the candidate forum, she indicated that she was endorsed by the Cherry Creek Education Association.

Cherry Creek candidates juggle live-streaming, mental health care and district finances

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chool board candidates this year agree on some but differ on more topics surrounding the school board election.

One topic where everyone agrees upon is geeting Cherry Creek school board meetings in front of more of the public by broadcasting them. Cherry Creek is one of the largest school districts in the state that does not broadcast school board meetings.

In the Sentinel’s questionnaire, all candidates said that they supported the idea of live-streaming the board meetings.

While Garland wrote that she will “commit to lobbying” the board to livestream the meetings, she and Egan also noted that the board meetings are not held in a central location. Knowles and Egan mentioned the value of hearing from people in person, with Knowles saying that it keeps the board accountable.

Graves wrote that he will immediately push to livestream the meetings because it currently isn’t equitable and fair to parents who have to work late or care for their children.

McKenna mentioned that he and Graves have already succeeded on this topic because during the candidate forums, Garland said “I would support live streaming” to “I do support.” He added that instead of convincing other board members to support it, that the public can just elect him and Graves instead.

When asked about student mental health issues, candidates Graves and McKenna criticized Traverse Academy, the district’s new mental health facility, because it went over its budget of more than $7 million. Both also said that they will pay close attention to the academy and its potential success.

Garland wrote about normalizing mental health care and how the district cares for the entire wellbeing of the child.

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mental health, which includes the building and opening of Traverse Academy as well as hiring additional mental health staff at high schools.

Knowles addressed the ongoing conversation the district is having about mental health and recognized the importance of partnering with outside organizations, funding partners and the State to support the growing need for mental health support.

Cherry Creek held six candidate forums at different district high schools where community members were allowed to ask the candidates questions.

All five candidates attended the forums and participated in a “quick round,” where candidates raised their hands if they agreed with a statement. However, Knowles sat with the audience during the “question and answer” portion of the forum due to the uncontested nature of her race. The remaining four candidates were given one minute to answer questions submitted by audience members.

While all the candidates were cordial during the first few forums, tensions began to rise as the four candidates on stage criticized one another.

McKenna and Graves did not raise their hands when asked if they attended more than three board meetings in the past year. They also indicated that candidates don’t need to have prior experience with working on a parent-led committee before serving on the board.

Graves said that when issues arise in schools, parents need to be immediately informed about it. Garland countered and said that his answer was proof that Graves has not been in schools, because parents are aware about any issues but may express unhappiness at the pace of any investigations.

McKenna criticized the board for voting unanimously on decisions. Egan said that while the board works to form a consensus, the directors have their own opinions and often have difficult conversations.

Egan criticized McKenna and Graves for running together, which she said is like two people with the same opinion are running for the race. McKenna and Graves explained that they did this because it is cheaper to share expenses.

Tensions flared at the last forum on Oct. 10, held at Overland High School, after members of local and national organizations attended the Oct. 9 school board of education meeting to complain about the presence of certain books in schools.

Garland expressed her disgust with the people who threatened the school district and said that “political violence isn’t funny.”

Graves echoed her sentiments and said that there is no place for hate or prejudice. He also said that he doesn’t want those people to vote for him.

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APS BOARD ELECTION. — BY KRISTIN OH, Sentinel Staff Writer

Five people are campaigning for three available seats on the seven-member board in Aurora Public Schools.

Vicki Reinhard is the only incumbent running for re-election this year. She is joined by challengers Danielle Tomwing, Max Garcia, Tiffany Tasker and Maria Saucedo.

Five vie in the race for three director seats Three at-large seats, meaning that candidates do not represent specific neighbors in the school district, are up for grabs this election season.

Max Garcia - Challenger According to his campaign website, Garcia has three daughters who attended private and public schools.

Garcia has worked in ministry and youth education for nearly three decades.

He worked with Promise Keepers, Denver Rescue Mission, Colorado Uplift, and Church in the City. He also works with student athletes.

His priorities include: getting back to the basics in reading, writing, math and science; student and teacher safety; parent rights; and school choice.

His campaign website does not list his endorsements. However, finance records show that he paid to network and get campaign support from the Colorado Hispanic Republicans, and he bought tickets to attend an event by the Arapahoe County Republican Party.

Garcia only answered a few questions

from the Sentinel’s questionnaire. He claimed that he was on fall break with his family and did not have time to answer any additional questions.

Vicki Reinhard - Incumbent Reinhard is the only incumbent on the ballot for the Aurora Public School board of education.

According to her candidate website, she worked as a substitute teacher, counselor and special education teacher. She retired in 2018 and was elected to the board of education in 2019.

Her priorities include diversity, equity and inclusion, safety, career pathways and safety.

She has been endorsed by the APS education association and APS board directors Debra Gerkin, Stephanie Mason and Nichelle Ortiz, according to her website.

Maria Saucedo - Challenger Saucedo worked in various roles and in different age groups for three decades at Denver Public Schools. She also worked in the U.S. Army Reserve and retired in 2015. She retired from DPS in 2016.

She has volunteered with the Denver Center for Performing Arts, The SEI Theater, and various immigration organizations, according to her website.

Her priorities include: having strong schools, fiscal responsibility, school safety and inclusion and diversity.

Her website does not list her endorsements. Financial showed that she contributed thousands of dollars to her own campaign.

She is the only candidate for the APS

Board of Education to decline answering the Sentinel’s questionnaire.

Tiffany Tasker - Challenger Tasker does not have a campaign website. However her LinkedIn page shows that she currently works as the director of outreach and marketing, and assistant program director for the Financial Education and Economic Transformation Center. The center is a non-profit group focusing on providing economic education to help bring equity to underserved populations and communities.

Her most recent finance report for the period of July 28 to Aug. 30 shows that she contributed $20 to her own campaign.

Danielle Tomwing - Challenger Tomwing was born in Trinidad and Tobago, and moved to Aurora 14 years ago specifically for the diversity, according to her candidate website. She became a U.S. citizen in 2019 and voted for the first time in 2020. Her daughters attend schools in APS. Tomwing works as a director for a national healthcare organization. She has also served on the District Accountability Advisory Committee and is a member of the Aurora NAACP. Her priorities include: increasing schools’ relationship with the community, equity in education and addressing mental health.

She has been endorsed by Senator Rhonda Fields, Representative Naquetta Ricks and other community members, according to her website.

Closing schools and boosting student achievement loom large in APS

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ive people are campaigning for three at-large seats on the Aurora Public School board of education.

Vicki Reinhard is the only incumbent running for re-election. Director Stephanie Mason will not run for reelection, as previously reported by The Sentinel, following a controversy at APS where some board directors were accused of racial discrimination. Director Nichelle Ortiz is also not running for reelection.

Reinhard is joined by community members Max Garcia, Maria Saucedo, Tiffany Tasker and Danielle Tomwing.

The three candidates winning the most votes will be elected.

Aurora Public Schools has been focused on helping students recover from a lack of in-person classes during the pandemic, as well as how to restructure a district with dwindling enrollment in some areas and growth in others.

Some of the candidates have not been public about their campaigns.

Saucedo declined to respond to the Sentinel’s request to answer the questionnaire. Garcia only responded to a few questions and declined to answer the remaining questions.

When asked about closing the achievement gap for students of color, Reinhard said that the district should focus on causes of absenteeism, provide culturally responsive and inclusive programming and hire teachers and staff that reflect the diverse community.

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Tasker focused on African American students and wrote that the district needs to provide equitable programs, resources and practices.

Tomwing wrote that the district needs to look at all the factors that impact student success, such as low attendance.

The district should also advocate for students of color and listen to students so the district can understand what is preventing students from progressing in schools.

While Garcia did not specifically answer this question, he wrote that standardized test scores and graduation rates are low and that the district should focus on academics.

When asked about the district’s plan for Blueprint APS, the district’s plan to repurpose buildings to address declining enrollment rates, Reinhard said that the plan’s effectiveness and impact should be completely reviewed.

She added that the plan was introduced in the 2017-18 school year. Since then, there has been a world-wide pandemic, new district leadership and changes in the population. She said that the district should review the plan and any possible adjustments moving forward.

Tasker wrote that Blueprint APS should also focus on culturally responsive practices in addition to academics and social emotional learning. She added that students must be in a culturally inclusive environment in order to learn successfully.

Tomwing acknowledged that community members and teachers felt like their voices were ignored, and that overall community engagement with the district is low. She also wrote that any “strategic plan that results in repurposing these schools needs to include a strategy that these neighborhoods are not losing accessibility to key resources.”

When asked about law enforcement in schools, Reinhard and Tomwing acknowledged that they are in schools to create a safe environment.

Tomwing mentioned that putting uniformed officers, security cameras and metal detectors in schools should be a last resort. If SROs are in schools, then they need to be held to the same level of accountability as school nurses, and the officers’ role should clearly be defined as someone who works with staff to de-escalate situations.

Reinhard wrote that while law enforcement officers are trained to handle “the most aggressive and threatening behaviors” in schools, they could possibly attend training similar to building staff about being culturally responsive. She added that law enforcement should not handle day-to-day discipline.

Tasker wrote about the negative impacts of law enforcement in schools, saying that they have historically contributed to the school-to-prison pipeline. She added that their involvement also contributes to issues around race and student discipline.

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expecting or wanting one…but I felt she probably didn’t want to relive that.”

While saying in the book that he owned up to his mistakes, McKenna wrote that he did not turn himself in for what he did.

However, the officer who dared McKenna, and another officer that he confided in, reported him to authorities. McKenna faced socalled Admiral’s Mast, a disciplinary proceeding for the Navy, in 1993, he wrote. He was adjudicated under military law, not public criminal code.

During the disciplinary hearing in a military court, he “sincerely apologized” and received a nonjudicial letter of admonition for conduct unbecoming an officer and a $1,000 fine.

Jeremy Snyder, a military law attorney in Pennsylvania, said that a letter of admonition is a written reprimand that could potentially prevent an officer from getting a promotion.

“I was charged with indecent exposure,” McKenna told the Sentinel. “But I admitted it, I was punished for it.”

Snyder said that the military code would not have defined the indecent exposure and touching her hair with his penis as a “sexual assault” because there was no sexual penetration. The punishment for indecent exposure under current military law varies from no punishment to “punitive discharge from the military, total forfeiture of all pay and allowances, and one year of confinement.”

Snyder also explained that McKenna’s actions would also fall under “abusive sexual contact if charged today.” The maximum punishment for that charge includes being discharged from the military, forfeiting all pay and

allowances and serving up to seven years in confinement.

The memoir offers readers McKenna’s opinions on a wide range of issues affecting American home and political life.

He wrote that “this is going to sound sexist, but mothers should care for children, at least infants or at least in my family.” He justified this by providing two examples of times when his oldest child, Jack, was put in precarious situations after McKenna turned his attention elsewhere.

In one instance, McKenna was washing his car at the top of a hill and left Jack in his stroller that was not properly locked. The stroller began to roll and McKenna grabbed his son just as the stroller hopped the curb and onto the street.

In the second example, McKenna, left his napping son on a bed while getting the laundry. When he returned, his son had rolled into the space between the bed and wall, still sleeping.

In a recent interview, McKenna said that part of the book was meant as a joke. He added that it wouldn’t make sense to inform readers that he’s going to tell a joke before delivering the joke.

“That was a bit of a dig at me and I guess, fathers in general for sometimes being less attentive to young children than mothers are,” he said.

When asked during a recent Cherry Creek candidate forum about volunteer work in schools, McKenna has said he would attend his childrens’ parent-teacher conferences and sporting events.

He stated that his wife spent more time volunteering with schools because his volunteer hours were better spent working as an attorney and helping the community.

Students and judging ‘graphic’ In March, McKenna published a blog post on his personal website, McKennaProject.com, where he poses with a young boy who is holding a copy of his memoir during a book signing event.

He explained to the Sentinel that the boy, who he thinks is 11 or 12-years-old, and his father came up to McKenna at the event, and that the dad bought the book. He said that the dad emailed him a few days later, and that the boy enjoyed reading the book.

McKenna said that he did not inform the dad that he wrote about his sexual misconduct in the book and doesn’t think she should have. He also said that he wouldn’t describe that scene he confessed to as being “graphic.”

“I use the word ‘penis.’ I said I touched my penis to her hair. Is that graphic?” McKenna asked.

He also said that he wouldn’t define that scene as being a “sexually graphic depiction” but a “depiction of definitely sexual misconduct.”

During the candidate forum on Oct. 3, McKenna said that the district is allowing elementary school students to access an inappropriate and sexually explicit book, “All Boys Aren’t Blue” by George M. Johnson. Egan pointed out that McKenna’s book is in children’s hands and is not appropriate for them. McKenna countered by saying that he thinks it is appropriate for children.

The day after the candidate forum, McKenna told the Sentinel that his memoir is written for adults and covers adult themes.

“I’m not going to say that I misspoke because politicians always say that kind of garbage, but I would not say it that way again,” he said.

McKenna told the Sentinel that he has not read Johnson’s book, “All Boys Aren’t Blue,” and does not know the context of the scene that he claims is inappropriate for children.

He claimed that Johnson’s memoir “specifically describes sexual acts” whereas he wrote about “ridiculous conduct, which was indecent exposure.”

Critics say that the book is sexually explicit and not appropriate for elementary school students to read. Lauren Snell, district spokesperson, said that Johnson’s book is not available for elementary school students. The book may show up on the district-wide catalog as an e-book and can be searched on the district website, but elementary school students cannot download it with their student credentials.

‘Wrong minded’ on racism In expanding on how his memoir deals with racial issues, McKenna told the Sentinel that he believes racism exists in this country, but not systemic racism.

In his memoir, he wrote about graduating from Aviation Officer Candidate School. During the graduation ceremony, a captain read the Navy Flyer’s Creed which said, “I have dedicated myself to this country, with its many millions and of all races, colors and creeds.”

Due to that phrase, and because McKenna believed that the other graduates “represented shades of every skin color,” he doesn’t “accept or believe that this country is systemically racist.”

“We’re definitely focused a lot on the idea that there’s disparities based on race. There are disparities. It can apply more to people of color, but I think saying it’s because of your color is wrong-minded…we’ve got plenty

of brilliant Black people. We’ve got plenty of brilliant Hispanic people that are at the top of their fields and have done amazing things. So that to me disproves that,” he told the Sentinel.

Despite saying that he doesn’t believe systematic racism exists in the country, McKenna explained that a variety of factors, such as a family’s income, parents’ education and home life could explain why the average test scores for Black and Hispanic students in Cherry Creek school are lower than their white counterparts.

In his memoir, he also wrote that “too many today focus on the sins of slavery and oppression committed by the United States in the past…while glossing over our country’s many triumphs and achievements.”

McKenna told the Sentinel that the point of the book is about owning up to your mistakes and not repeating them.

Although people advised McKenna not to write about his involvement in the Tailhook Scandal, he said that it was important to write about his “biggest mistake.”

However, he also said that it was just “one paragraph in an over 200-page book.”

R. Karl Hanson, adjunct research professor of psychology at Carleton University Said that most people who commit sexual offenses are never identified or caught. The fact that McKenna was caught and identified, reduces the “likelihood of reoffending regardless of the severity of the sanction.” He added that the likelihood of sexual behavior and additional sexual crimes also decreases with age.

“You can be concerned about this candidate for whatever reasons,” Hanson said.“But risk of (additional) sexual crime should not figure prominently in those considerations.”

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ABOVE: Regis Jesuit freshman Vlad Sukhovetskyy lines up a backhand return during the No. 3 singles state championship at the Class 5A boys tennis individual state tournament played on Oct. 14 at City Park in Denver. Sukhovetskyy won the state championship with a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Valor Christian’s Nathaniel Trevey, Photo by Courtney Oakes/Aurora Sentinel. BELOW: Regis Jesuit poses with the Class 5A team runner-up trophy after a 4-1 loss to Cherry Creek Oct. 17 at the Denver Tennis Park. Photo courtesy Dan Mohrmann/Colorado Preps

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ad the Class 5A boys tennis state championship been decided in the longtime standard way — using points accrued by individual results — Regis Jesuit likely would have been crowned victors in 2023.

But the new format that debuted a year ago in which teams play a dual match to decide the crown went against the Raiders Oct. 17.

The top-seed in the 16-team tournament dropped all four doubles matches to Cherry Creek in play at the Denver Tennis Park, leaving coach Laura Jones’ BOYS TENNIS team as the state runner-up.

The only state championship to come out of that tournament went to Sukhovetskyy, who earned a 6-1, 7-5 victory over Valor Christian’s Nathaniel Trevey.

Sukhovetskky won a regional championship to put himself in a prime spot in the state tournament bracket, which he took advantage of with wins over Arapahoe’s Brett Sweeney (6-2, 3-6, 6-1 in the first round), Ponderosa’s Peyton Donahue (6-0, 6-0 in the quarterfinals) and Cherry Creek’s Trevor Robinson (6-1, 6-4 in the semifinals) to reach a matchup with Trevey.

After he got off to a great start in the first set, things tightened up in the second set, but Suk-

With the Bruins in the lead 3-1 in the chase to four wins — with victories at Nos. 2, 3 and 4 doubles — the Raiders still had a chance when sophomore No. 1 singles player Clay Dickey and freshman No. 3 singles player Vlad Sukhovetskyy forced third sets to join the No. 1 doubles team of seniors Agustin Azcui and Brady Jenkins.

All three matches

BY COURTNEY OAKES Sports Editor returned to the court simultaneously, but only the No. 1 doubles match ended, when Cherry Creek’s Kris Kostadinov and Matthew Hu rallied to win 4-6, 6-4, 6-3 and give the Bruins a 4-1 victory. It was a switch from the regular season, when Regis Jesuit won a dual match between the teams 5-2.

It was a second less than ideal result in a three-day span for Regis Jesuit, which finished 1-4 in championship matches at the 5A individual state tournament which concluded on Oct. 14 at City Park in Denver.

hovetskky kept an even keel as he always seems to do and he came through in the clutch. In a 5-5 set, he won a break from Trevey and then served the match out.

Sukhovetskyy finished the season with only one loss, which came to Fossil Ridge’s Alex Van Thuyne — in a third-set tiebreak — during the Full Send Invitational Sept. 22. In the team tournament, he fell behind Cherry Creek’s Trevor Robinson by a set, but battled all the way back to tie it up and was on court in the third set when the other match ended.

Regis Jesuit’s one victory in the team championship dual came from sophomore No. 2 singles player Alec Rodriguez-Fields, who cruised past Cherry Creek’s Jack Loehr 6-1, 6-3 in the first match to finish.

It was some redemption for Rodriguez-Fields, who had ended up as the 5A individual runner-up when he lost to Valor Christian’s Jace Nakamura 6-3, 6-2.

Net results

Dickey and the No. 4 doubles team of seniors Tyler Ryan and Bennett Cherveny both won third-place matches at the individual state tournament. Ryan and Cherveny fell to Cherry Creek’s Wills Possehl and Adam Eikelberner 6-1, 6-3 in the second match of the dual.

That was followed by two more doubles wins for the Bruins as the Raiders’ duos of juniors KC Eckenhausen and Carl Siegel fell in the No. 2 match, as did sophomores Adam Rydel and Kevin Solichien at No. 3. Both doubles teams had finished as individual runners-up and the No. 3 team lost to the same Cherry Creek team in what had been a closer match.

The No. 1 doubles team of Azcui and Jenkins dropped a 6-3, 6-4 decision to Kostadinov and Hu in the individual state tournament, but felt confident in the rematch. The Raiders claimed the first set and had their moments in the second as they sought to claim the match, but the Bruins battled back to force a split.

The teams returned to the court first among the third matches in a third set and the result decided the match in front of a large gathering of spectators surrounding the indoor courts.

Dickey had defeated Cherry Creek’s Charlie Stern in a close dual match earlier in the season and fell behind by a set in the rematch, only to win in a tiebreak. The third set ended before it could be concluded in a 3-3 tie.

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PREPS Right: Members of the Cherokee Trail softball team form a dog pile on top of senior Addi Krei, center, after the Cougars’ 14-6 win over Legacy in the Class 5A Region 7 consolation final Oct. 14 at ThunderRidge High School. The win got Cherokee Trail into the state tournament for a fourth straight season.

Middle: Eaglecrest senior Megan Drugan poses after she scored a run during the Raptors’ 5A Region 1 opener against Heritage Oct. 13.

Drugan scored the eventual winning run in a 2-1 upset of No. 1 Arvada West that got Eaglecrest into the 5A state tournament for the first time since 2018.

Below: Senior Peytann Weiland and the Grandview softball team downed Arapahoe 11-4 Oct. 14 at Broomfield High School to get the Wolves into the 5A state tournament for a second year in a row.

PHOTOS BY COURTNEY OAKES/AURORA SENTINEL

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or the first time since 2020, three Aurora-area softball programs made it into the select group of teams left in contention for the Class 5A state title.

Cherokee Trail, Eaglecrest and Grandview all advanced to the 5A state tournament, scheduled for Oct. 20-21 at the Aurora Sports Park, and the three Centennial League rivals — all of whom have a state championship to their credit in the past — will be there at the same SOFTBALL time for the first time since 2012.

Eaglecrest opens the state tournament against No. 9 Fruita Monument, a regional host that got upset by No. 12 Legend, in a game scheduled for 10 a.m. Oct. 20 at Complex B at the Aurora Sports Park.

Cherokee Trail is back in the state tournament for a fourth consecutive season — and sixth time in the past 10 years — after it came out of the Region 7 tournament at ThunderRidge High School.

Coach Caley Mitchell’s Cougars (the Centennial League champions who sport a 19-7 record) finished 2-1 with both wins over Legacy. The first one — a 12-2 victory that saw freshman Emma Rice earn the win on the mound — got Cherokee Trail into the regional final against host ThunderRidge. An 8-2 to the Grizzlies sent the Cougars into a rematch Oct. 14 for the second state spot.

Another freshman pitcher, Sydney Cobb, stepped up in relief for Cherokee Trail as she held the Lightning off the scoreboard for the last five innings in a 14-6 victory. Senior Addi Krei had four hits and scored three times, while juniors Kylie Twilt and Kennedy Brian drove in two runs apiece. Twilt had a combined seven RBI in three games for the Cougars, while senior Kiki Pryor went 6-for-10 with four RBI. Cherokee Trail ended up with the No. 11 seed at the state tournament that pits it against No. 6 Broomfield (21-4) in the opening round in a game scheduled for 12:15 p.m. Oct. 20.

Coach Liz Carter’s Grandview team finished 2-1 Oct. 4 at the Region 8 tournament hosted by Broomfield to return to the state tournament. The program snapped a six-season drought in 2022 — when it made it to the quarterfinals — and earned a return with its regional performance, which was capped by an 11-4 win over Arapahoe.

The Wolves (19-7) defeated the Warriors for a third time on the season — which became necessary after they lost a 5-1 decision to Broomfield in the regional final. Grandview opened the day with a 12-5 win over No. 24 Fort Collins thanks to a complete game effort from junior Leah Graves, plus three RBI from senior Peytann Weiland and two apiece from senior Kristin Gallego and sophomore Sasha Kennedy.

Grandview is the No. 12 seed in the state bracket and has a 10 a.m. Oct. 14 first round contest vs. No. 5 ThunderRidge. The Wolves topped the Grizzlies 7-4 at the Dave Sanders Memorial tournament Sept. 9.

State shine The Colorado High School Activities Association issued the 16-team bracket for state tournament on Oct. 16 and it included the regional champion Raptors, as well as the Cougars and Wolves, who both were the second teams out of their respective regionals Oct. 13-14.

Eaglecrest had made it to seven straight state tournaments, but fell shot of making it back for the past four seasons. Coach

BY COURTNEY OAKES Sports Editor Yvette Hendrian’s Raptors (19-6) earned their return in a big way, by knocking off the top seed among 32 teams in regional play.

Eaglecrest was seeded No. 16 going into regionals, but moves up to No. 8 in the state tournament by virtue of its 2-1 win over original No. 1 Arvada West at the Region 1 tournament Oct. 13.

The Raptors got an outstanding effort from junior starter Jordan Stilley, who allowed just seven hits and struck out three as she held the powerful Wildcats to their lowest offensive output of the season.

Arvada West got its only run off Stilley in the fifth inning, but Eaglecrest — which had just four hits in the game —broke the tie in the top of the next inning. Senior Megan Drugan tripled to open the sixth inning and came home on senior Izzy Ervin’s single as the Raptors strung together the only two hits other than those from sophomore Chessa Reid.

Sophomore Briahna Gallegos earned the win the regional opener, an 11-2 victory over No. 17 Heritage in which senior Addison Mower drove in four runs.

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Week 8 sees city teams net combined 3-8 mark Aurora teams improved by one win over the week before, as Week 8 saw Aurora programs finish with a combined record of 3-8 in games played from Oct. 12-14.

Victorious in the late stage of the regular season were Gateway and Grandview in head-to-head local matchups — vs. Hinkley and Smoky Hill, respectively — along with Regis Jesuit. All three wins were of the lopsided variety and the three victory allowed just eight combined points.

Grandview bounced back from a loss to Arapahoe the previous week with a 41-8 defeat of Smoky Hill Oct. 13 at Stutler Bowl in a game that saw the Wolves score all of their points in the opening half. Liam Szarka had another four-touchdown game for the Wolves (6-2, 2-1), as he rushed for a score and threw two touchdown passes to Dominic Henning and another to Kyler Vaughn. Zion Brake threw a touchdown pass and ran in the two-point conversion for the Buffs (1-7, 0-3).

Regis Jesuit evened its record at 4-4 and moved to 2-1 in the Southern League with a 51-0 victory over winless Chaparral Oct. 13 at Lou Kellogg Stadium. The Raiders got three touchdown runs from Garrett Reece, plus another on the ground from Anthony Medina and two passing from Peyton Lindell (to Arturo Chacon and JoJo Hernandez). Defensively, the Raiders earned their first shutout in 36 games, dating back to a win over Douglas County during the coronavirus pandemic-shortened 2020 season.

Gateway racked up its most points in a decade — stretching back to the 2012 season — in a 69-0 victory over Hinkley Oct. 13 at APS Stadium. The Olys (2-6, 2-2 in the I-25 League) got a six-touchdown game from Knyle Serrell, who went over 100 yards rushing and scored four times on the ground, while he also threw two touchdown passes to Andre Romain. Gateway also scored defensively on a fumble return by Keondre Meadows.

Eaglecrest (6-2, 1-2 Centennial League) went down to defeat, but played undefeated and four-time defending Class 5A state champion Cherry Creek closer than anybody else this season in a 21-0 loss Oct. 13 at Legacy Stadium. The Raptors finished with just 137 yards of total offense.

VIsta PEAK Prep played the closest game of the week on Oct. 14 at APS Stadium, but fell to Denver South 2012. Joshua Boadu rushed for a touchdown and Kameron Harris caught a scoring pass from Canaan Barthlow in the second quarter for all of the points for the Bison (2-6, 0-3 in the 4A Southeast Metro).

Winners of three straight, Overland trailed Denver East 7-0 at halftime Oct. 13 at All-City Stadium, but couldn’t overcome the deficit in a 24-6 loss to drop to 4-4 and 2-1 in the Metro North.

Tyson Smith rushed for the lone touchdown for Cherokee Trail in a 567 Centennial League road loss at LPS

TOP LEFT: Gateway’s Keondre Meadows, with ball, jumps into the arms of teammate Knyle Serrell after returning a fumble for a touchdown in the Olys’ 69-0 Week 8 football win over Hinkley on Oct. 13 at Aurora Public Schools Stadium. BOTTOM LEFT: Overland’s Weston Travis (52) tries to rip the ball out of the hands of Denver East ballcarrier Sean Campbell during the first half of the Trailblazers’ 24-6 loss to the Angels Oct. 13 at All-City Stadium. ABOVE: Grandview’s Justin Son makes a return during the No. 1 singles final at the Class 5A boys tennis individual state tournament Oct. 14 at City Park in Denver. (Photos

by Courtney Oakes/Aurora Sentinel) FALL PHOTO GALLERIES FOUND AT COURTNEYOAKES.SMUGMUG.COM

Arapahoe (6-1, 5-7, 6-4 in the quarterfinals) and Regis Jesuit’s Clay Dickey (6-3, 7-6 in the semifinals) at the state tournament. His teammate, No. 3 singles player Carter Benton, lost his first round match.

Cherokee Trail’s three qualifiers — No. 2 singles player Swagat Behera and the doubles teams of Zachary Monforton and Aditya Fernandez (No. 1) plus Edward Tay and Ryan Martin (No. 4) — all lost first round matches and did not get playback chances.

Stadium Oct. 12, while Rangeview (1-7, 0-3) got on the scoreboard against Prairie View with a safety in the first quarter and later added a rushing touchdown by Jah Alexander, but dropped a 31-8 road decision and Aurora Central is 2-6 overall and 1-2 in the 4A Metro 2 league in the wake of a 540 loss to Fruita Monument Oct. 12.

BOYS TENNIS

Grandview’s Justin Son finishes as 5A No. 1 singles runner-up The Grandview boys tennis program had never had a finalist at the Class 5A state tournament until 2022, but now it has had two in the past two years and both at No. 1 singles.

Eduard Tsaturyan won a state title in 2022 in his one and only season with coach Jeff Ryan’s Wolves

and he helped elevate the level of play of then-freshman Justin Son, who moved into the No. 1 position this season as a sophomore and thrived.

Son earned his way into the state championship match Oct. 14 against Broomfield senior Kai Trujillo, with whom he had warmed up with for play on the first two days of the three-day tournament at Denver’s City Park.

In head-to-head matchups, Son had prevailed over Trujillo in a thirdset tiebreak when they played Sept. 8 at the Greeley West Invitational, but it was Trujillo who won the rematch as he posted a 6-2, 6-3 victory on the big stage in the championship match.

Son suffered just his second loss of the season — the other came at the Tom Moore Memorial back in August — after he won his region, then defeated Pine Creek’s Gurman Goraya (6-0, 6-3 in the first round), Cale Brush of

GIRLS VOLLEYBALL

Wolves, Cougars both win to open Centennial League Challenge

The Centennial League Challenge girls volleyball tournament tipped off Oct. 12, as teams started the threegame mini tournament after the completion of the league season.

Grandview earned the No. 1 seed in the tournament and advanced to the quarterfinals with a three-set victory over No. 8 Overland. Likewise, Cherokee Trail — the No. 2 seed — moved CROSS COUNTRY Regionals set with state along on the other side of the bracket with a sweep of No. 7 Smoky Hill as meet spots on the line Kassie Cooley piled up 14 kills and Ella Notheisen added 12 and Willow Snow The most important races of the contributed 20 digs and five aces. season for Aurora boys and girls Next up for the Wolves in an Oct. cross country runners arrive Oct. 19 24 home matchup with the chance for teams against No. 4 Mullen, and individuals to advance while the Cougars play to the Oct. 28 state meet.

For more on these host to No. 3 Cherry The majority of local stories, visit Creek on the same day. teams will be at the Arapaaurorasentinel.

On the consolation hoe County Fairgrounds for com/preps side, No. 6 Eaglecrest the Class 5A Region 1 meet, — which lost at Cherwhich is set to be run startry Creek in the opening ing at 10 a.m. Cherokee round — will play host to Smoky Hill, Trail, Grandview, Hinkley, Overland, while Overland travels to No. 5 ArapaRegis Jesuit, Smoky Hill and Vista hoe. Placing matches for the tournaPEAK Prep will join host Rangeview ment will be Oct. 26 at sites to be dein the competition. On the same day, termined by the matchup.

Eaglecrest heads to Loveland to compete in the 5A Region 4 meet that is scheduled for a 2 p.m. girls race and WEEK PAST 2:30 p.m. boys race. Aurora Central The week past in is part of the 4A Region 2 field schedAurora prep sports uled to race at 2 p.m. at the Salisbury Equestrian Park and Gateway is in the MONDAY, OCT. 16: The Vista 3A Region 5 group that runs at 12:30 PEAK Prep girls volleyball team p.m. at D’Evelyn High School. rolled to its fourth straight victory as The top four boys and girls it won 25-23, 23-25, 25-20, 25-12 at teams in each regional automaticalThomas Jefferson. Melinda Allred ly advance to the state meet, plus all athletes who finish in the top 15. ›› See PREPS, 30

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had 11 kills, Ayden West 10 and Jayci Fifita nine, while Ava Eltzroth recorded 34 assists and Yasir Dickey made 20 digs. ...SATURDAY, OCT. 14: The Regis Jesuit softball team’s season came to an end with a second loss at the 5A Region 1 tournament at Arvada West. The Raiders fell to Heritage 9-2 despite two hits apiece from Kendal Craven and Jenna Patterson, who joined Anna Najmulski with RBI. Regis Jesuit finished the season 10-12 ...The Overland co-op gymnastics team finished second among 12 scoring teams at the Mountain Range Invitational with a score of 181.900 points.

Ainsley Renner’s score of 37.325 put her in a tie for second place, while Kyla Burke deadlocked for fourth at 36.775. ... THURSDAY, OCT. 12: The Aurora Central boys soccer team avenged one of its only two losses with a 7-0 shutout of Adams City as Anthony Cecena-Cervantes and Bertra Ishimwe each scored two goals. Yadier Morales Lucio and Cesar Romero added two assists apiece. ...Braeden Focht finished fifth individually and the Regis Jesuit boys cross country team took seventh at the Continental League Championship meet at Salisbury Equestrian Park. The Raiders were a place higher in the girls standings as Ashlyn Pallotta’s 10th place result set the pace. ...In a showdown for first place in the Continental League, the Regis Jesuit boys soccer team ceded a goal in each half of a 2-0 loss to Legend at EchoPark Stadium. ...Alexander Lee and Kelkiyas Nidaw tallied second-half goals and

LEFT: Rangeview’s Kimi Bulto, left, runs with a pack near the front of the City League Championship boys cross country race Oct. 10 at City Park in Denver. ABOVE: Vista PEAK Prep’s Ayden West (9) tips over a block from Thomas Jefferson during the Bison’s four-set girls volleyball road win Oct. 16. (Photos by Courtney Oakes/Aurora Sentinel) FALL PHOTO GALLERIES FOUND AT COURTNEYOAKES.SMUGMUG.COM

the Smoky Hill boys soccer team blanked Overland 2-0. ...Ernesto Burciago had a hat trick, Samuel Addai-Opoku scored two goals and Devyn Mena collected two assists as the Hinkley boys soccer team edged Denver West 5-4. ...Caleb Burgess, Peter Eugenio and Marcelo Ruiz scored goals for the Cherokee Trail boys soccer team in a 3-3 tie with Mullen. ...Fabrice Nyonkah had three goals and an assist, but the Gateway boys soccer team couldn’t keep pace with Thornton in a 6-4 loss. ...The Vista PEAK Prep boys soccer team fell to George

Washington 2-1 in a game in which all three goals were scored in the second half. ...A 15-kill, 19-dig performance by Anika Davison helped the Rangeview girls volleyball team to a 25-18, 25-21, 16-25, 25-23 road win at Westminster.

Maddie Kilmer added 19 assists and 12 kills. ...Melinda Allred and Ayden West had six kills apiece, Ella Travis added six blocks and Ava Eltzroth notched 17 assists as the Vista PEAK Prep girls volleyball team swept Hinkley 25-17, 25-13, 25-21. Desiree Hairston paced the Thunder with five kills. ...WEDNESDAY, OCT. 11: The Smoky

Hill field hockey team blanked the Poudre School District 1-0 on a goal from Julia Kaiser. It was the sixth win for the Buffaloes after they won three games in 2022. ...TUESDAY, OCT. 10: The Cherokee Trail girls volleyball team capped the Centennial League season with a rousing 25-20, 25-16, 22-25, 20-25, 15-9 victory over Cherry Creek as Kassie Cooley racked up 19 kills, 12 digs and six blocks. Ella Notheisen (13) and Gwen Mitchell (10) also got into double-digit kills for the Cougars. ...Emerson Deferme and Mira Griffin registered 12 and 11 kills,

respectively, as the Grandview girls volleyball team defeated Eaglecrest 26-24, 25-16, 25-20. Jada Bobb and Anayah Rucker had four kills apiece for the Raptors. ...In a Dig Pink match, the Vista PEAK Prep girls volleyball team earned a 27-25, 25-23, 25-22 home sweep of rival Rangeview behind Ayden West’s 12 kills and three blocks. Anika Davison had 13 kills for the Raiders. ...The Aurora Central boys soccer team got goals from Giovanni Herrera and Cesar Romero plus an own goal from Gateway in a 3-1 victory over the Olympians.

Romero and Kevin Olivas had assists. ... Charles Sharp scored a goal and assisted by tallies by Joseph Bennett and Sebastian Campos as the Regis Jesuit boys soccer team shut out Heritage 3-0. ...Sebastian Pineda notched the only goal of the game for visiting Rangeview in a 1-0 win at Vista PEAK Prep. ...Rangeview’s Kimi Bulto recorded a ninth-place finish in the City League Championship boys cross country race run at City Park in Denver. Vista PEAK Prep topped local teams in the standings in fourth.

In the girls race, Rangeview’s Elliana Wright had the top local finish in 32nd, while the Raiders finished nine points behind Vista PEAK Prep (led

by Anastasia Smith’s 42nd place) for seventh. ...Leona Ferguson of the Gateway girls cross country team won the Colorado League Championship girls race run at the Aurora Sports Park, which saw Aurora Central’s Aditi Arreola finish fourth. Alfonso Zamora finished seventh for the Aurora Central boys, who were second to Skyview.

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Original OriginalGrantor(s) Grantor(s) Robert RobertV.V.Kirk Kirk Original OriginalBeneficiary(ies) Beneficiary(ies) Westerra WesterraCredit CreditUnion Union Current CurrentHolder HolderofofEvidence EvidenceofofDebt Debt Westerra WesterraCredit CreditUnion Union Date DateofofDeed DeedofofTrust Trust September September07, 07,2012 2012 County CountyofofRecording Recording Arapahoe Arapahoe Recording RecordingDate DateofofDeed DeedofofTrust Trust September September12, 12,2012 2012 Recording Information Recording Information(Reception (ReceptionNo. No.and/ and/ ororBook/Page Book/PageNo.) No.) D2102194 D2102194 Original OriginalPrincipal PrincipalAmount Amount $105,000.00 $105,000.00 Outstanding OutstandingPrincipal PrincipalBalance Balance $34,846.03 $34,846.03 Pursuant PursuanttotoCRS CRS§38-38-101(4)(i), §38-38-101(4)(i),you youare are hereby hereby notified notified that that the the covenants covenants ofof the the deed of trust have been violated as follows: deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure Failuretotopay payinstallments installmentsofofprincipal principaland and interest, interest,together togetherwith withother otherpayments paymentsproprovided videdfor forininthe theevidence evidenceofofdebt debtsecured secured by the Deed of Trust and other by the Deed of Trust and otherviolations violationsofof the theterms termsthereof. thereof.

THE THELIEN LIENFORECLOSED FORECLOSEDMAY MAYNOT NOTBE BE AAFIRST FIRSTLIEN. LIEN. LOT 27, BLOCK 8, DOVER SUBDIVISION LOT 27, BLOCK 8, DOVER SUBDIVISION FILING FILINGNO. NO.1,1,COUNTY COUNTYOF OFARAPAHOE, ARAPAHOE, STATE STATEOF OFCOLORADO. COLORADO. Also known by street and Also known by street and number number as: as: 18101 18101 East East Adriatic Adriatic Place, Place, Aurora, Aurora, CO CO 80013.

80013.

THE THE PROPERTY PROPERTY DESCRIBED DESCRIBED HEREIN HEREIN IS ISALL ALLOF OFTHE THEPROPERTY PROPERTYCURRENTLY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED ENCUMBERED BY

BY THE THE LIEN LIEN OF OF THE THE DEED DEEDOF OFTRUST. TRUST. NOTICE NOTICEOF OFSALE SALE The Thecurrent currentholder holderofofthe theEvidence EvidenceofofDebt Debt secured secured by by the the Deed Deed ofof Trust, Trust, described described herein, herein,has hasfiled filedNotice NoticeofofElection Electionand andDeDemand mand for for sale sale as as provided provided by by law law and and inin said saidDeed DeedofofTrust.

Trust.

THEREFORE, THEREFORE, Notice Notice IsIs Hereby Hereby Given Given that thatI Iwill willatatpublic publicauction, auction,atat10:00 10:00A.M. A.M. on Wednesday, 11/15/2023, on Wednesday, 11/15/2023, atat The The East East Hearing Hearing Room, Room, County County Administration Administration Building, Building,5334 5334South SouthPrince PrinceStreet, Street,LittleLittleton, ton, Colorado, Colorado, 80120, 80120, sell sell toto the the highhighest est and and best best bidder bidder for for cash, cash, the the said said real property and all interest of the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ Grantor(s)’ heirs heirs and and assigns assigns therein, therein, for for the the purpose purpose ofof paying paying the the inindebtedness debtedness provided provided inin said said Evidence Evidence ofof Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus plus attorneys’ attorneys’fees, fees,the theexpenses expensesofofsale saleand and other otheritems itemsallowed allowedby bylaw, law,and andwill willissue issue totothe thepurchaser purchaseraaCertificate CertificateofofPurchase, Purchase, all allas asprovided providedby bylaw. law.

First 9/21/2023 FirstPublication Publication 9/21/2023 Last 10/19/2023 LastPublication Publication 10/19/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Name of Publication Sentinel ColoColorado rado IFIFTHE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUEDTO TO AALATER LATERDATE, DATE,THE THEDEADLINE DEADLINETO TOFILE FILE AA NOTICE NOTICE OF OF INTENT INTENT TO TO CURE CURE BY BY THOSE THOSE PARTIES PARTIES ENTITLED ENTITLED TO TO CURE CURE MAY MAYALSO ALSOBE BEEXTENDED; EXTENDED; DATE: DATE:07/14/2023 07/14/2023 Michael MichaelWesterberg, Westerberg, Public Trustee Public Trusteeininand andfor forthe the County CountyofofArapahoe, Arapahoe,State StateofofColorado Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, By: /s/ Michael Westerberg,Public PublicTrustee Trustee The The name, name, address, address, business business telephone telephone number numberand andbar barregistration registrationnumber numberofofthe the attorney(s) attorney(s)representing representingthe thelegal legalholder holderofof the theindebtedness indebtednessis: is: David DavidC. C.Walker Walker#36551 #36551 Neal NealK. K.Dunning Dunning#10181 #10181 Douglas W. Brown Douglas W. Brown#10429 #10429 Drew DrewP.P.Fein Fein#48950 #48950 Brown BrownDunning DunningWalker WalkerFein FeinDrusch DruschPC PCE. E. Prentice Prentice Ave., Ave., Suite Suite 101-E, 101-E, Greenwood Greenwood Village, CO 80111 (303) 329-3363 Village, CO 80111 (303) 329-3363 Attorney AttorneyFile File##3085-175 3085-175 The TheAttorney Attorneyabove aboveisisacting actingas asaadebt debt collector collectorand andisisattempting attemptingto tocollect collectaa debt.

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COMBINED COMBINEDNOTICE NOTICE- PUBLICATION PUBLICATIONCRS CRS§38-38-103 §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE FORECLOSURESALE SALENO. NO.0324-2023 0324-2023 To Whom It May Concern: To Whom It May Concern: This This Notice Notice isis given given with with regard regard toto the the following following dedescribed scribedDeed DeedofofTrust: Trust: On OnJuly July14, 14,2023, 2023,the theundersigned undersignedPublic Public Trustee Trusteecaused causedthe theNotice NoticeofofElection Electionand and Demand Demandrelating relatingtotothe theDeed DeedofofTrust Trustdedescribed below to be recorded in scribed below to be recorded inthe theCounty County ofofArapahoe Arapahoerecords. records.

Original OriginalGrantor(s) Grantor(s) JASON JASONTIMOTHY TIMOTHYMOORE MOORE Original OriginalBeneficiary(ies) Beneficiary(ies) WEINBERG WEINBERGSERVICING, SERVICING,LLC LLC Current CurrentHolder HolderofofEvidence EvidenceofofDebt Debt WEINBERG WEINBERGSERVICING, SERVICING,LLC LLC Date DateofofDeed DeedofofTrust Trust January January10, 10,2023 2023 County CountyofofRecording Recording Arapahoe Arapahoe Recording RecordingDate DateofofDeed DeedofofTrust Trust January January12, 12,2023 2023 Recording Information Recording Information(Reception (ReceptionNo. No.and/ and/ ororBook/Page Book/PageNo.) No.) E3002503 E3002503 Original OriginalPrincipal PrincipalAmount Amount $120,000.00 $120,000.00 Outstanding OutstandingPrincipal PrincipalBalance Balance $120,000.00 $120,000.00 Pursuant PursuanttotoCRS CRS§38-38-101(4)(i), §38-38-101(4)(i),you youare are hereby hereby notified notified that that the the covenants covenants ofof the the deed of trust have been violated as follows: deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure Failuretotopay payprincipal principaland andinterest interestwhen when due duetogether togetherwith withall allother otherpayments paymentsproprovided videdfor forininthe theevidence evidenceofofdebt debtsecured secured by the deed of trust and other by the deed of trust and other violations violations thereof. thereof.

THE THELIEN LIENFORECLOSED FORECLOSEDMAY MAYNOT NOTBE BE AAFIRST FIRSTLIEN. LIEN. PLEASE SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED PLEASE SEE EXHIBIT A ATTACHED HERETO. HERETO. EXHIBIT EXHIBIT“A” “A” Legal LegalDescription DescriptionofofProperty Property CONDOMINIUM CONDOMINIUM IN IN ACCORDANCE ACCORDANCE WITH WITH THE THE DECLARATION DECLARATION RECORDED RECORDED ON ONMARCH MARCH24, 24,1982 1982IN INBOOK BOOK3597 3597AT AT PAGE PAGE 438, 438, THE THE CONDOMINIUM CONDOMINIUM MAP MAP RECORDED RECORDED ON ON MARCH MARCH 24, 24, 1982 1982 IN IN PLAT PLAT BOOK BOOK 55 55 AT AT PAGE PAGE 38, 38, SPECIAL SPECIAL AMENDMENT AMENDMENTNO. NO.11TO TODECLARATION DECLARATION RECORDED RECORDED ON ON MARCH MARCH 30, 30, 1983 1983 IN IN BOOK BOOK 3826 3826 AT AT PAGE PAGE 416, 416, THE THE FIRST FIRST SUPPLEMENTAL SUPPLEMENTAL DECLARATION DECLARATION RERECORDED CORDEDON ONMARCH MARCH23, 23,1984 1984IN INBOOK BOOK 4118 4118 AT AT PAGE PAGE 1,1, AND AND THE THE SECOND SECOND SUPPLEMENTAL MAP (PHASE SUPPLEMENTAL MAP (PHASE l)l) RERECORDED CORDED ON ON APRIL APRIL 2,2, 1983 1983 IN IN PLAT PLAT BOOK BOOK 63 63 AT AT PAGE PAGE 47 47 AND AND THE THE SECSECOND OND SUPPLEMENTAL SUPPLEMENTAL MAP MAP (PHASE (PHASE 2)2) RECORDED RECORDED ON ON MARCH MARCH 23, 23, 1984 1984 IN IN PLAT PLATBOOK BOOK73 73AT ATPAGE PAGE37, 37,INCLUDING INCLUDING CARPORT CARPORT99, 99,COUNTY COUNTYOF OFARAPAHOE, ARAPAHOE, STATE STATEOF OFCOLORADO. COLORADO.Property Propertyaddress address (for (for information information only): only): 14467 14467 East East 1st 1st Drive, Unit C IO Aurora, CO Drive, Unit C IO Aurora, CO80017 80017 Also Also known known by by street street and and number number as: as: 14467 14467 East East 1st 1st Drive, Drive, Unit Unit C10, C10, Aurora, Aurora, CO CO80017.

80017.

THE THE PROPERTY PROPERTY DESCRIBED DESCRIBED HEREIN HEREIN IS ISALL ALLOF OFTHE THEPROPERTY PROPERTYCURRENTLY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED ENCUMBERED BY

BY THE THE LIEN LIEN OF OF THE THE DEED DEEDOF OFTRUST. TRUST. NOTICE NOTICEOF OFSALE SALE The Thecurrent currentholder holderofofthe theEvidence EvidenceofofDebt Debt secured secured by by the the Deed Deed ofof Trust, Trust, described described herein, has filed Notice of Election herein, has filed Notice of Electionand andDeDemand mand for for sale sale as as provided provided by by law law and and inin said saidDeed DeedofofTrust.

Trust.

THEREFORE, THEREFORE, Notice Notice IsIs Hereby Hereby Given Given that thatI Iwill willatatpublic publicauction, auction,atat10:00 10:00A.M. A.M. on on Wednesday, Wednesday, 11/15/2023, 11/15/2023, atat The The East East Hearing Hearing Room, Room, County County Administration Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, LittleBuilding, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, ton, Colorado, Colorado, 80120, 80120, sell sell toto the the highhighest est and and best best bidder bidder for for cash, cash, the the said said real real property property and and all all interest interest ofof the the said said Grantor(s), Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ Grantor(s)’ heirs heirs and and assigns assigns therein, therein, for for the the purpose purpose ofof paying paying the the inindebtedness debtedness provided provided inin said said Evidence Evidence ofof Debt Debt secured secured by by the the Deed Deed ofof Trust, Trust, plus plus attorneys’ attorneys’fees, fees,the theexpenses expensesofofsale saleand and other otheritems itemsallowed allowedby bylaw, law,and andwill willissue issue totothe thepurchaser purchaseraaCertificate CertificateofofPurchase, Purchase, all allas asprovided providedby bylaw. law.

First 9/21/2023 FirstPublication Publication 9/21/2023 Last Publication 10/19/2023 Last Publication 10/19/2023 Name Sentinel NameofofPublication Publication Sentinel ColoColorado rado IFIFTHE THE SALE SALE DATE DATE IS IS CONTINUED CONTINUEDTO TO AALATER LATERDATE, DATE,THE THEDEADLINE DEADLINETO TOFILE FILE AA NOTICE NOTICE OF OF INTENT INTENT TO TO CURE CURE BY BY THOSE THOSE PARTIES PARTIES ENTITLED ENTITLED TO TO CURE CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: DATE:07/14/2023 07/14/2023 Michael MichaelWesterberg, Westerberg, Public PublicTrustee Trusteeininand andfor forthe the County CountyofofArapahoe, Arapahoe,State StateofofColorado Colorado By: By:/s/ /s/Michael MichaelWesterberg, Westerberg,Public PublicTrustee Trustee The The name, name, address, address, business business telephone telephone number numberand andbar barregistration registrationnumber numberofofthe the attorney(s) attorney(s)representing representingthe thelegal legalholder holderofof the indebtedness is: the indebtedness is: Amy AmyK. K.Hunt Hunt#37160 #37160 Edward EdwardP.P.Timmins Timmins#11719 #11719 Timmins TimminsLLC LLC450 450East East17th 17thAvenue, Avenue,Suite Suite 210, 210, Denver, Denver,CO CO80203 80203(303) (303)592-4500 592-4500 Attorney AttorneyFile File##14467 14467East1st East1stDrive Drive The TheAttorney Attorneyabove aboveisisacting actingas asaadebt debt collector collectorand andisisattempting attemptingto tocollect collectaa debt.

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COMBINED COMBINEDNOTICE NOTICE- PUBLICATION PUBLICATIONCRS CRS§38-38-103 §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE FORECLOSURE SALENO. NO.0326-2023 0326-2023 To To Whom Whom ItIt May May Concern: Concern: This This Notice Notice isis given given with with regard regard toto the the following following dedescribed Deed of Trust: scribed Deed of Trust: On OnJuly July14, 14,2023, 2023,the theundersigned undersignedPublic Public Trustee Trusteecaused causedthe theNotice NoticeofofElection Electionand and Demand Demandrelating relatingtotothe theDeed DeedofofTrust Trustdedescribed below to be recorded in scribed below to be recorded inthe theCounty County ofofArapahoe Arapahoerecords. records.

Original OriginalGrantor(s) Grantor(s) James JamesC. C.Prejean Prejean Original OriginalBeneficiary(ies) Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC ELECTRONIC REGISTRAREGISTRATION TIONSYSTEMS, SYSTEMS,INC. INC.AS ASNOMINEE NOMINEEFOR FOR NEW DAY FINANCIAL, LLC, NEW DAY FINANCIAL, LLC, ITS ITS SUCSUCCESSORS CESSORSAND ANDASSIGNS ASSIGNS Current CurrentHolder HolderofofEvidence EvidenceofofDebt Debt MIDFIRST MIDFIRSTBANK BANK Date of Deed of Trust Date of Deed of Trust August August26, 26,2020 2020 County CountyofofRecording Recording Arapahoe Arapahoe Recording RecordingDate DateofofDeed DeedofofTrust Trust September September02, 02,2020 2020 Recording RecordingInformation Information(Reception (ReceptionNo. No.and/ and/ ororBook/Page Book/PageNo.) No.) E0114657 E0114657 Original OriginalPrincipal PrincipalAmount Amount $250,491.00 $250,491.00 Outstanding OutstandingPrincipal PrincipalBalance Balance $238,499.83 $238,499.83 Pursuant PursuanttotoCRS CRS§38-38-101(4)(i), §38-38-101(4)(i),you youare are hereby hereby notified notified that that the the covenants covenants ofof the the deed deedofoftrust trusthave havebeen beenviolated violatedas asfollows: follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when Failure to pay principal and interest when due duetogether togetherwith withall allother otherpayments paymentsproprovided videdfor forininthe theevidence evidenceofofdebt debtsecured secured by by the the deed deed ofof trust trust and and other other violations violations thereof. thereof.

THE THELIEN LIENFORECLOSED FORECLOSEDMAY MAYNOT NOTBE BE AAFIRST FIRSTLIEN. LIEN. SEE SEE ATTACHED ATTACHED LEGAL LEGAL DESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION PURSUANT PURSUANT TO TO AFFIDAVIT AFFIDAVIT OF OF SCRIVSCRIVENER’S ENER’SERROR ERRORRECORDED RECORDEDON ONJUNE JUNE 26, 26,2023, 2023,AT ATRECEPTION RECEPTIONNO. NO.E3042897 E3042897 TO TOCORRECT CORRECTLEGAL LEGALDESCRIPTION. DESCRIPTION. LEGAL LEGALDESCRIPTION DESCRIPTION CONDOMINIUM CONDOMINIUMUNIT UNITNO. NO.D, D,BUILDING BUILDING NO. NO. 6,6, LE LE CHATEAU CHATEAU CONDOMINIUMS, CONDOMINIUMS, LE CHATEAU SUBDIVISION LE CHATEAU SUBDIVISIONFILING FILINGNO. NO. 1,1,IN INACCORDANCE ACCORDANCEWITH WITHTHE THEDECLADECLARATION RATIONRECORDED RECORDEDON ONOCTOBER OCTOBER18, 18, 1983 1983IN INBOOK BOOK3996 3996AT ATPAGE PAGE23, 23,FIRST FIRST SUPPLEMENT SUPPLEMENT TO TO DECLARATION DECLARATION RERECORDED CORDEDMARCH MARCH9,9,1984 1984IN INBOOK BOOK4107 4107 AT ATPAGE PAGE397 397AND ANDCONDOMINIUM CONDOMINIUMMAP MAP RECORDED ON OCTOBER 18, RECORDED ON OCTOBER 18,1983 1983IN IN BOOK BOOK68 68AT ATPAGE PAGE65, 65,FIRST FIRSTSUPPLESUPPLEMENT MENT TO TO CONDOMINIUM CONDOMINIUM MAP MAP RERECORDED CORDED MARCH MARCH 9,9, 1984 1984 IN IN BOOK BOOK 73 73 AT AT PAGE PAGE 8,8, THE THEARAPAHOE ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COUNTY, COLORADO, COLORADO, RECORDS, RECORDS, COUNTY COUNTY OF OF ARAPAHOE, ARAPAHOE,STATE STATEOF OFCOLORADO. COLORADO. Also Also known known by by street street and and number number as: as: 14169 14169 East East Dickinson Dickinson Drive Drive Unit Unit D, D, AuAurora, CO 80014-7358. rora, CO 80014-7358.

THE THE PROPERTY PROPERTY DESCRIBED DESCRIBED HEREIN HEREIN IS ISALL ALLOF OFTHE THEPROPERTY PROPERTYCURRENTLY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED ENCUMBERED BY

BY THE THE LIEN LIEN OF OF THE THE DEED DEEDOF OFTRUST. TRUST. IfIfapplicable, applicable,aadescription descriptionofofany anychanges changes toto the the deed deed ofof trust trust described described inin the the nonotice tice ofof election election and and demand demand pursuant pursuant toto affidavit affidavit as as allowed allowed by by statutes: statutes: C.R.S.§ C.R.S.§ 38-35-109(5) 38-35-109(5)LEGAL LEGALDESCRIPTION DESCRIPTIONHAS HAS BEEN BEEN CORRECTED CORRECTED BY

BY SCRIVENER’S SCRIVENER’S AFFIDAVIT RECORDED AFFIDAVIT RECORDED 6/26/2023 6/26/2023 AT AT RECEPTION RECEPTIONNO. NO.E3042897 E3042897IN INTHE THERERECORDS CORDSOF OFARAPAHOE ARAPAHOECOUNTY. COUNTY. NOTICE NOTICEOF OFSALE SALE The Thecurrent currentholder holderofofthe theEvidence EvidenceofofDebt Debt secured secured by by the the Deed Deed ofof Trust, Trust, described described herein, has filed Notice of Election herein, has filed Notice of Electionand andDeDemand mand for for sale sale as as provided provided by by law law and and inin said saidDeed DeedofofTrust.

Trust.

THEREFORE, THEREFORE, Notice Notice IsIs Hereby Hereby Given Given that thatI Iwill willatatpublic publicauction, auction,atat10:00 10:00A.M. A.M. on Wednesday, 11/15/2023, on Wednesday, 11/15/2023, atat The The East East Hearing Hearing Room, Room, County County Administration Administration Building, Building,5334 5334South SouthPrince PrinceStreet, Street,LittleLittleton, ton, Colorado, Colorado, 80120, 80120, sell sell toto the the highhighest est and and best best bidder bidder for for cash, cash, the the said said real real property property and and all all interest interest ofof the the said said Grantor(s), Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ Grantor(s)’ heirs heirs and and assigns assigns therein, therein, for for the the purpose purpose ofof paying paying the the inindebtedness debtedness provided provided inin said said Evidence Evidence ofof Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus plus attorneys’ attorneys’fees, fees,the theexpenses expensesofofsale saleand and other otheritems itemsallowed allowedby bylaw, law,and andwill willissue issue totothe thepurchaser purchaseraaCertificate CertificateofofPurchase, Purchase, all allas asprovided providedby bylaw. law.

First 9/21/2023 FirstPublication Publication 9/21/2023 Last Publication 10/19/2023 Last Publication 10/19/2023 Name Sentinel NameofofPublication Publication Sentinel ColoColorado rado IFIFTHE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUEDTO TO AALATER LATERDATE, DATE,THE THEDEADLINE DEADLINETO TOFILE FILE AA NOTICE NOTICE OF OF INTENT INTENT TO TO CURE CURE BY BY THOSE THOSE PARTIES PARTIES ENTITLED ENTITLED TO TO CURE CURE MAY MAYALSO ALSOBE BEEXTENDED; EXTENDED; DATE: DATE:07/14/2023 07/14/2023 Michael MichaelWesterberg, Westerberg, Public PublicTrustee Trusteeininand andfor forthe the County CountyofofArapahoe, Arapahoe,State StateofofColorado Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, By: /s/ Michael Westerberg,Public PublicTrustee Trustee The The name, name, address, address, business business telephone telephone number numberand andbar barregistration registrationnumber numberofofthe the attorney(s) attorney(s)representing representingthe thelegal legalholder holderofof the theindebtedness indebtednessis: is: Alison AlisonLLBerry Berry#34531 #34531

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www.publicnoticecolorado.com N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-030297 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0333-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On July 21, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Francisco Torres Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR GUILD MORTGAGE COMPANY LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust January 12, 2021 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 13, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E1006895 Original Principal Amount $333,799.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $320,255.53 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 34, BLOCK 42, HOFFMAN TOWN, FOURTH FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN: 1973-01-4-14-034 Also known by street and number as: 955 Victor Street, Aurora, CO 80011.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/15/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 9/21/2023 Last Publication 10/19/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 07/21/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-030444 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0337-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On July 25, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Kimberly S. Bierley and Paul W. Bierley

Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for BNC National Bank, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Freedom Mortgage Corporation Date of Deed of Trust August 26, 2016 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 07, 2016 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D6099947 Original Principal Amount $361,688.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $304,861.17 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 6, BLOCK 1, BERKSHIRE VILLAGE SUBDIVISION, FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 2429 S Oswego St, Aurora, CO 80014.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/15/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 9/21/2023 Last Publication 10/19/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 07/25/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Heather Deere #28597 Toni M. Owan #30580 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO22085 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0338-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On July 25, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Paul Yaft and Amy Yaft Original Beneficiary(ies) FirstBank Current Holder of Evidence of Debt FirstBank Date of Deed of Trust June 03, 2016 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 23, 2016 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D6066252 Original Principal Amount $472,800.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $405,542.76 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for by the Deed of Trust and related loan documents and other violations of the Note and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 5, BLOCK 11, THE FARM AT ARAPAHOE COUNTY FILING NO. 9, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 16851 East Caley Place, Aurora, CO 80016.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY

ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/15/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 9/21/2023 Last Publication 10/19/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 07/25/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lindsay L. McKae #39200 Trevor G. Bartel #40449 Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP 1601 19th Street, Suite 1000, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 623-9000 Attorney File # 307913-00054 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0339-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On July 25, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Christopher Coffman Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for Broker Solutions, Inc. dba New American Funding, Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust August 06, 2019 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust August 08, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D9080065 Original Principal Amount $175,085.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $165,168.83 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. SEE ATTACHED EXHIBIT A EXHIBIT A CONDOMINIUM UNIT NO. 1897-A, BUILDING NO. 9, BRITTANY HIGHLANDS CONDOMINIUMS, IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE DECLARATION RECORDED ON JUNE 29, 1981, IN BOOK 3440, AT PAGE 558, AND AS AMENDED IN INSTRUMENT RECORDED MAY 21, 1982 IN BOOK 3629 AT PAGE 65 AND ANY AND ALL AMENDMENTS THERETO AND CONDOMINIUM MAP RECORDED ON JUNE 29, 1981, IN BOOK 51 AT PAGE 56 AND AMENDMENT RECORDED SEPTEMBER 07, 1982 IN BOOK 58 AT PAGE 35 AND ANY AND ALL AMENDMENTS THERETO OF THE ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO, RECORDS, TOGETHER WITH THE EXCLUSIVE RIGHT TO USE THE FOLLOWING LIMITED COMMON ELEMENTS: PARKING SPACE NUMBER 341, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 1897 South Pitkin Street, Unit A, Aurora, CO 80017.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/15/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration

Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 9/21/2023 Last Publication 10/19/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 07/25/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306 Holly Shilliday #24423 Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-23-962473-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0341-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On July 25, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Moustafa Alidou Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR M2 LENDING SOLUTIONS, LLC, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust April 05, 2017 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 12, 2017 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D7041386 Original Principal Amount $322,059.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $282,195.29 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 6, BLOCK 2, NEVIN VILLAGE GREEN SUBDIVISION FILING NO 1, AMENDED, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN #: 197519117006 Also known by street and number as: 14892 E Kansas Pl, Aurora, CO 80012.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/15/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 9/21/2023 Last Publication 10/19/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 07/25/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the

attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 19-022860 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0343-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On July 25, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Claudia M Straight AND Robert E Straight Original Beneficiary(ies) BELLCO CREDIT UNION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt BELLCO CREDIT UNION Date of Deed of Trust March 03, 2016 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 11, 2016 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D6036034 Original Principal Amount $15,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $13,659.08 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 43, BLOCK 3, SEVEN HILLS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 6, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 19850 East Columbia Avenue, Aurora, CO 80013.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/15/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 9/21/2023 Last Publication 10/19/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 07/25/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-030143 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

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www.publicnoticecolorado.com COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0344-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On July 28, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Mary L Murry, AKA MARY MURRY Original Beneficiary(ies) BELLCO CREDIT UNION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt BELLCO CREDIT UNION Date of Deed of Trust May 27, 2014 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust December 19, 2016 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D6146524 Original Principal Amount $50,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $35,593.32 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION Legal Description LOT 2B, RAINTREE EAST, AS PER MAP RECORDED IN BOOK 23 AT PAGE 90; TOGETHER WITH RIGHTS SET FORTH IN THAT CERTAIN DECLARATION OF COVENANTS, CONDITIONS AND RESTRICTIONS RECORDED IN BOOK 2120 AT PAGE 169 AND 189, INCLUSIVE, AND TOGETHER WITH AN EASEMENT FOR PARKING AND STORAGE OVER THAT PORTION OF LOT 2 D SHOWN AS EASEMENT NO. 2 ON EASEMENT LOCATION PLAN RECORDED IN BOOK 2143 AT PAGE 619, WHICH EASEMENT IS FOR THE BENEFIT OF AND APPURTENANT TO SAID LOT 2B, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO.. *PURSUANT TO AFFIDAVIT OF SCRIVENER’S ERROR RECORDED ON JULY 10, 2023 AT RECEPTION NO. E3046449 TO INCLUDE THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION. Also known by street and number as: 9901 East Evans Avenue #2B, Denver, CO 80247.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. If applicable, a description of any changes to the deed of trust described in the notice of election and demand pursuant to affidavit as allowed by statutes: C.R.S.§ 38-35109(5) LEGAL DESCRIPTION HAS BEEN CORRECTED BY SCRIVENER’S AFFIDAVIT RECORDED 7/10/23 AT RECEPTION NO. E3046449 IN THE RECORDS OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/29/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/5/2023 Last Publication 11/2/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 07/28/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-030144 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0346-2023

To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On July 28, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Cynthia Denisse Almeraz Acosta AKA Cynthia Almeraz Acosta Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for Paramount Residential Mortgage Group, Inc.., Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt AmeriHome Mortgage Company, LLC Date of Deed of Trust April 23, 2020 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 24, 2020 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E0049109 Original Principal Amount $318,032.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $307,578.55 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 71, BLOCK 1, QUINCY HILL SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 14172 E Radcliff Cir,, Aurora, CO 80015.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/29/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/5/2023 Last Publication 11/2/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 07/28/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306 Holly Shilliday #24423 Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-23-961957-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0349-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On July 28, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Tiahnni D James Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR SYNERGY ONE LENDING, INC., ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust September 23, 2019 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 24, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D9100042 Original Principal Amount $313,222.00 Outstanding Principal Balance

$263,404.32 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 221, BLOCK 1, THE DAM - FILING NO. 5, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN #: 031291534 Also known by street and number as: 13189 E Bethany Place, Aurora, CO 80014.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/29/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/5/2023 Last Publication 11/2/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 07/28/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-030493 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0350-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On July 28, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) LUIS ALBERTO RIVERA Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC, AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust February 05, 2021 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 08, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E1021769 Original Principal Amount $262,163.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $251,309.11 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Borrower’s failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION. LEGAL DESCRIPTION Condominium Unit 201, Building 6, The Louisiana Purchase Condominiums, in accordance with and subject to the Declaration of Covenants, Conditions and Restrictions for The Louisiana Purchase Condominiums recorded January 31, 1984 in Book 4076 at Page 699, said Condominium is further depicted and described by the Condominium Map of The Louisiana Purchase Condominiums Phase 1A and 1B recorded April 19, 1984 in Plat Book 74 at Pages 27-31, all in the records of the Clerk and Recorder of Arapahoe County, Colorado, together with the exclusive right to use Garage Space 2A, Parking Space

N/A and Storage Space N/A, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

PARCEL ID NUMBER: 1975-22-2-23-027 Also known by street and number as: 1312 S CATHAY CT APT 201, AURORA, CO 80017.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/29/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/5/2023 Last Publication 11/2/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 07/28/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 22-027901 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0351-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 1, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) DANIEL FEARHEILEY AND LINDSEY GRAY Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR QUICKEN LOANS INC. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt LAKEVIEW LOAN SERVICING, LLC Date of Deed of Trust June 29, 2019 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust July 11, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D9067986 Original Principal Amount $312,067.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $291,229.30 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 6, BLOCK 5, STERLING HILLS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 2, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 19853 E VASSAR AVE, AURORA, CO 80013-9402.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/29/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus

attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/5/2023 Last Publication 11/2/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/01/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Anna Johnston #51978 Randall M. Chin #31149 David W. Drake #43315 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000009809682 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0354-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 1, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Maria Yoder Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR EVERETT FINANCIAL, INC. D/B/A SUPREME LENDING, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust May 31, 2018 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust June 05, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D8053591 Original Principal Amount $190,120.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $177,479.67 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION LEGAL DESCRIPTION CONDOMINIUM UNIT NO. 10, IN CONDOMINIUM BUILDING 8, SABLE COVE CONDOMINIUMS, ACCORDING TO THE SABLE COVE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1 PHASE 9 CONDOMINIUM MAP, RECORDED ON AUGUST 24, 1983, AT RECEPTION NO. 2316415, IN THE RECORDS OF THE OFFICE OF THE CLERK AND RECORDER OF ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO, AND AS DEFINED AND DESCRIBED IN CONDOMINIUM DECLARATION FOR SABLE COVE CONDOMINIUMS, RECORDED ON SEPTEMBER 15, 1982, IN BOOK 3698 AT PAGE 273, AND THE EIGHTH STATEMENT OF INTENTION TO ANNEX ADDITIONAL LAND, RECORDED ON MAY 9, 1983, IN BOOK 3857 AT PAGE 529, IN SAID RECORDS, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. PARCEL ID NUMBER: 1975-18-4-25-130 Also known by street and number as: 919 S Dawson Way Unit 10, Aurora, CO 80012.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/29/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

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www.publicnoticecolorado.com IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/01/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-029630 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0355-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 1, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Bessie A Jones Original Beneficiary(ies) BOKF NA DBA Colorado State Bank and Trust Current Holder of Evidence of Debt BOKF, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust October 31, 2016 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 15, 2016 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D6130908 Original Principal Amount $256,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $234,119.04 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 60, SMOKY HILL 400, FILING 12, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 5365 South Truckee Court, Centennial, CO 80015.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/29/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/5/2023 Last Publication 11/2/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/01/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306 Holly Shilliday #24423 Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-23-962224-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015

COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0357-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 4, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Michelle Kassel Original Beneficiary(ies) Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver, Inc. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver, Inc. Date of Deed of Trust April 26, 2018 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust April 30, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D8041440 Original Principal Amount $174,700.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $159,425.58 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for by the Deed of Trust and related loan documents.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 22, BLOCK 1, SHERIDAN SQUARE FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO Also known by street and number as: 3725 South Julian Street, Sheridan, CO 80236.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 12/06/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/12/2023 Last Publication 11/9/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/04/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Lindsay L. McKae #39200 Trevor G. Bartel #40449 Lewis Roca Rothgerber Christie LLP 1601 19th Street, Suite 1000, Denver, CO 80202 (303) 623-9000 Attorney File # 211668-00008 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0358-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 4, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Margaret F Shelley Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. (“MERS”) as nominee for DHI Mortgage Company, Ltd., Its Successors and Assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt U.S. Bank National Association Date of Deed of Trust October 28, 2021 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust November 02, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E1167741 Original Principal Amount $483,264.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $476,108.06 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when

due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 23, BLOCK 2, HORIZON UPTOWN FILING NO. 1., COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 21854 E 9th Place, Aurora, CO 80018.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 12/06/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/12/2023 Last Publication 11/9/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/04/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306 Holly Shilliday #24423 Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-23-963108-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0359-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 8, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Cliford Abonifor Asobo and Mercy Bih Nfornah Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc, as beneficiary, as nominee for Lehman Brothers Bank, FSB, A Federal Savings Bank Current Holder of Evidence of Debt U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Trustee for Structured Asset Investment Loan Trust Mortgage Pass-Through Certificates, Series 2006-2 Date of Deed of Trust February 15, 2006 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 23, 2006 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) B6024077 Book: n/a Page: May 23, 2006 Re-Recording Information (Reception No. and/or Book/Page No.) B6077198 Re-Recording Date of Deed of Trust Original Principal Amount $559,600.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $596,582.28 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Lot 10, Block 13, TUSCANY SOUTH SUBDIVISION, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 6167 S. FUNDY WAY, AURORA, CO 80016.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given

that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 12/06/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/12/2023 Last Publication 11/9/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/08/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alexis R. Abercrombie #56722 Scott D. Toebben #19011 Aricyn J. Dall #51467 David W Drake #43315 Randall S. Miller & Associates PC 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710 Attorney File # 23CO00284-1 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0360-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 8, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) James S Ring Original Beneficiary(ies) NEW EQUITY FINANCIAL CORPORATION Current Holder of Evidence of Debt SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING LLC Date of Deed of Trust January 20, 2004 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust January 30, 2004 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) B4019728 Original Principal Amount $130,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $78,806.38 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOTS 16 AND 17, BLOCK 13, AURORA HEIGHTS, ACCORDING TO THE RECORDED PLAT THEREOF, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 1125 Lima St., Aurora, CO 80010.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 12/06/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/12/2023 Last Publication 11/9/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/08/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of

the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-030445 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0361-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 8, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Stefanie Hollis Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Freedom Mortgage Corporation, its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Freedom Mortgage Corporation Date of Deed of Trust February 12, 2020 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 20, 2020 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E0021435 Original Principal Amount $187,102.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $175,083.33 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. Lot 28, Block 3, Hampden Hills at Aurora Subdivision Filing No. 13, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado.

Also known by street and number as: 3734 S Espana Way, Aurora, CO 80013.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 12/06/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/12/2023 Last Publication 11/9/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/08/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Heather Deere #28597 Toni M. Owan #30580 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO22065 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0362-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 8, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Nicklaus A Croy AND Savannah L Croy Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR FAIRWAY INDEPENDENT MORTGAGE

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www.publicnoticecolorado.com CORPORATION, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust January 31, 2020 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 10, 2020 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E0016968 Original Principal Amount $298,751.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $297,511.82 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 72, BIJOU CREEK FIRST AMENDMENT FINAL PLAT, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 389 S 3RD Ave, Deer Trail, CO 80105.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 12/06/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/12/2023 Last Publication 11/9/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/08/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-030237 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0363-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 8, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Valerie Poole Original Beneficiary(ies) U.S. Bank National Association Current Holder of Evidence of Debt U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION Date of Deed of Trust May 01, 2015 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust May 21, 2015 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D5051706 Book: N/A Page: Original Principal Amount $22,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $21,913.65 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 20 BLOCK 1 EAST ILIFF MEADOWS SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, EXCEPT THE REAR 12 FEET THEREOF, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as:

12100 Villanova Dr E, Aurora, CO 800141902.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 12/06/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/12/2023 Last Publication 11/9/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/08/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alexis R. Abercrombie #56722 Scott D. Toebben #19011 Aricyn J. Dall #51467 David W Drake #43315 Randall S. Miller & Associates PC 216 16th Street, Suite 1210, Denver, CO 80202 (720) 259-6710 Attorney File # 23CO00303-1 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0365-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 11, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Christine Weatherly AND Raymond Hussey Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR NORTHPOINTE BANK, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt SPECIALIZED LOAN SERVICING LLC Date of Deed of Trust March 22, 2019 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust March 25, 2019 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D9024917 Original Principal Amount $229,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $223,614.10 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. SEE ATTACHED LEGAL DESCRIPTION. LEGAL DESCRIPTION That Part of the NW1/4 of Section 16, Township 4 South, Range 61 West, Described as Follows: Beginning at a Point which is 260.00 Feet South of and 860.00 feet East of the Northwest Corner of said NW 1/4; Thence South 50.00 Feet; Thence East 125,00 Feet; Thence North 50.00 Feet; Thence West 125.00 Feet to the Point of Beginning, Formerly Known as Lots 32 and 33, Block 6, Town of Byers, Now Vacated, County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado PARCEL NUMBER: 1985-16-2-01-009 Also known by street and number as: 145 S Sherman Street, Byers, CO 80103.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 12/13/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the high-

est and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/19/2023 Last Publication 11/16/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/11/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-030366 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0366-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 11, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) GERARDO JIMENEZ Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. ACTING SOLELY AS NOMINEE FOR UNITED WHOLESALE MORTGAGE Current Holder of Evidence of Debt UNITED WHOLESALE MORTGAGE, LLC. Date of Deed of Trust August 24, 2020 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 01, 2020 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E0113952 Original Principal Amount $269,500.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $257,578.21 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations of the terms thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 1, BLOCK 8, HOFFMAN TOWN, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 1294 SCRANTON ST, AURORA, CO 80011.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 12/13/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/19/2023 Last Publication 11/16/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/11/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Anna Johnston #51978

Randall M. Chin #31149 David W. Drake #43315 Ryan Bourgeois #51088 Joseph D. DeGiorgio #45557 Barrett, Frappier & Weisserman, LLP 1391 Speer Boulevard, Suite 700, Denver, CO 80204 (303) 350-3711 Attorney File # 00000009854159 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0373-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 15, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Matthew W Specht Original Beneficiary(ies) Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. Date of Deed of Trust August 27, 2018 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust September 05, 2018 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) D8088184 Original Principal Amount $201,000.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $186,408.08 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the Deed of Trust and other violations thereof THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 38, A REPLAT OF SMOKY HILL 400, FILING NO. 4, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 5305 S Telluride Ct, Centennial, CO 800152644.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 12/13/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/19/2023 Last Publication 11/16/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/15/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Erin Croke #46557 Steven Bellanti #48306 Holly Shilliday #24423 Ilene Dell’Acqua #31755 McCarthy & Holthus LLP 7700 E Arapahoe Road, Suite 230, Centennial, CO 80112 (877) 369-6122 Attorney File # CO-23-963622-LL The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-103 FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0375-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On August 15, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Alvin P. Thompson and Melissa D. Thompson Original Beneficiary(ies) Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc., as Beneficiary, as nominee for Integ-

rity First Financial, Inc., its successors and assigns Current Holder of Evidence of Debt Freedom Mortgage Corporation Date of Deed of Trust February 08, 2021 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust February 25, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E1031770 Original Principal Amount $412,050.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $321,857.53 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to make timely payments as required under the Evidence of Debt and Deed of Trust.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 14, BLOCK 6, SUMMER BREEZE SUBDIVISION FILING NO. 1, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. Also known by street and number as: 17497 E Kenyon Dr, Aurora, CO 80013.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 12/13/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

First Publication 10/19/2023 Last Publication 11/16/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 08/15/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Amanda Ferguson #44893 Heather Deere #28597 Toni M. Owan #30580 Halliday, Watkins & Mann, PC 355 Union Blvd., Ste. 250, Lakewood, CO 80228 (303) 274-0155 Attorney File # CO22139 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 COMBINED NOTICE RESCISSION - PUBLICATION CRS §38-38-113(4)(b) FORECLOSURE SALE NO. 0250-2023 To Whom It May Concern: This Notice is given with regard to the following described Deed of Trust: On May 30, 2023, the undersigned Public Trustee caused the Notice of Election and Demand relating to the Deed of Trust described below to be recorded in the County of Arapahoe records.

Original Grantor(s) Angelina Saenz AND Dylan Harris Original Beneficiary(ies) MORTGAGE ELECTRONIC REGISTRATION SYSTEMS, INC. AS NOMINEE FOR NBH BANK, ITS SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS Current Holder of Evidence of Debt COLORADO HOUSING AND FINANCE AUTHORITY Date of Deed of Trust October 26, 2021 County of Recording Arapahoe Recording Date of Deed of Trust October 29, 2021 Recording Information (Reception No. and/ or Book/Page No.) E1165651 Original Principal Amount $307,490.00 Outstanding Principal Balance $300,403.18 Pursuant to CRS §38-38-101(4)(i), you are hereby notified that the covenants of the deed of trust have been violated as follows: Failure to pay principal and interest when due together with all other payments provided for in the evidence of debt secured by the deed of trust and other violations thereof.

THE LIEN FORECLOSED MAY NOT BE A FIRST LIEN. LOT 20, BLOCK 2, THE TIMBERS 3RD FILING, COUNTY OF ARAPAHOE, STATE OF COLORADO. APN #: 2073-06-1-14-028

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www.publicnoticecolorado.com Purported common address: 3852 S Evanston Street, Aurora, CO 80014.

THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED HEREIN IS ALL OF THE PROPERTY CURRENTLY ENCUMBERED BY THE LIEN OF THE DEED OF TRUST. NOTICE OF SALE The current holder of the Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, described herein, has filed Notice of Election and Demand for sale as provided by law and in said Deed of Trust.

THEREFORE, Notice Is Hereby Given that I will at public auction, at 10:00 A.M. on Wednesday, 11/15/2023, at The East Hearing Room, County Administration Building, 5334 South Prince Street, Littleton, Colorado, 80120, sell to the highest and best bidder for cash, the said real property and all interest of the said Grantor(s), Grantor(s)’ heirs and assigns therein, for the purpose of paying the indebtedness provided in said Evidence of Debt secured by the Deed of Trust, plus attorneys’ fees, the expenses of sale and other items allowed by law, and will issue to the purchaser a Certificate of Purchase, all as provided by law.

Single Publication 10/19/2023 Name of Publication Sentinel Colorado IF THE SALE DATE IS CONTINUED TO A LATER DATE, THE DEADLINE TO FILE A NOTICE OF INTENT TO CURE BY THOSE PARTIES ENTITLED TO CURE MAY ALSO BE EXTENDED; DATE: 10/10/2023 Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee in and for the County of Arapahoe, State of Colorado By: /s/ Michael Westerberg, Public Trustee The name, address, business telephone number and bar registration number of the attorney(s) representing the legal holder of the indebtedness is: Alison L Berry #34531 N. April Winecki #34861 David R. Doughty #40042 Nicholas H. Santarelli #46592 Lynn M. Janeway #15592 Janeway Law Firm, P.C. 9540 Maroon Circle, Suite 320, Englewood, CO 80112 (303) 706-9990 Attorney File # 23-030049 The Attorney above is acting as a debt collector and is attempting to collect a debt. Any information provided may be used for that purpose. ©Public Trustees’ Association of Colorado Revised 1/2015 PUBLIC AUCTION REPORT 11/01/2023 YEAR MAKE V.I.N. —— —— —————————— 00 ACUR 19UUA5666YA051906 08 ACUR 19UUA66238A036220 02 ACUR 2HNYD18832H517602 06 ACUR 19UUA66256A021179 08 BMW WBANW135X8CZ83553 04 BMW WBANA73524B807372 07 BMW WBANB53527CP07742 13 BMW WBA3B9G54DNP39472 06 BMW 5UXFA93596LE84455 03 BMW WBAEU33443PM55906 90 BUIC 1G4HP54C0LH478288 02 BUIC 2G4WS52J021147767 96 CADI 1G6KD52Y9TU259728 13 CHEV 2G1WG5E31D1192425 15 CHEV 2GNALAEK8F1114540 04 CHEV 2G1WH52K249244543 14 CHEV 1G11A5SL9EF138414 04 CHEV 1GNEK13Z34J212706 82 CHEV 1GCCC14D5CJ145850 07 CHEV 3GNFK12377G172170 02 CHEV 3GNFK16Z82G189034 04 CHEV 1GCEK19T04E207208 94 CHEV 1GCFK24K3RZ281098 01 CHEV 3GNFK16T81G269041 04 CHEV 1GCGG25V841202031 02 CHEV 1GNDT13S322215737 09 CHEV 1G1ZG57B79F158636 08 CHRY 2C3KA43R38H164751 78 COCH CGR3380101606 09 CYCL KM4MJ525391217123 02 DODG 1B7HU18N22J122014 08 DODG 1B3HB28B58D659681 03 DODG 1D7HU18Z63S147955 19 DODG 2C3CDZKG9KH667975 99 DODG 1B7HF13Z4XJ561901 01 DODG 1B4HS28Z01F527429 14 DODG 1C3CDZAB4EN138774 10 DODG 2B3CA4CD6AH316338 03 DODG 1D7HG12X43S146883 74 DODG B30BF3V049821 08 DODG 1B3HB28BX8D506181 18 FORD 1FTFW1RG7JFA06424 01 FORD 1FAFP44401F114711 06 FORD 1FMYU93186KC13268 14 FORD 2FMDK4JC3EBA84957 97 FORD 1FMEU18W4VLB33712 86 FORD 1FDKE30L3GHC16387 15 FORD 1FD0X5GT6FEA42754 97 FORD 1FTCR14A5VPA37197 06 FORD 1FAFP24136G121034 19 FORD 1FT8W3DT8KED65328 02 FORD 1FAFP404X2F121592 12 FORD 2FMDK4JC8CBA32107 20 FORD 1FT7W2B63LEE08106 02 FORD 1FCNF53S120A03765 94 FORD 3FCMF53GXRJB01550 16 FORD 1FTEW1EG9GKD84021 98 FORD 1FTZX18W1WNB15834 98 FORD 1FAFP4047WF138114 23 FRHT 3AKJHHDRXPSNR0282 05 GMC 1GKFK66U65J198249 22 GMC 7GZ37TC76NN002237 03 GMC 2GTEK19T331100914 02 GMC 1GKDT13S922352324 18 GMC 3GTU2PEJ7JG511224 08 GMC 1GDJG31CX81909570 99 GMC 1GKEK13RXXJ719684 80 GRDN B19739 11 HD 1HD1GY410BC318167 10 HMDE 4X4CPC513AN040731 98 HOND 1HGEJ6574WL015007 18 HOND 1HGCV1F32JA127691 01 HOND 1HGCG32421A016689

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The minor child(ren) are identified as follows: Date of Birth: 6/14/2013 Place of Birth: Gunnison, Colorado Physical Description of Respondent: Age: 35 Race: Black Hair Color: Brown Eye Color: Brown Approximate Height: 6’2” Approximate Weight: 200 lbs Copies of all court documents in this case, including orders, are available at the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office. You may review these documents upon request.

You must keep the Clerk of the Circuit Court’s office notified of your current address. (You may file Designation of Current Mailing and E-Mail Address, Florida Supreme Court Approved Family Law Form 12.915.) Future papers in this lawsuit will be mailed or e-mailed to the addresses on record at the clerk’s office.

Dated: October 2, 2023 /s/ Clerk of Circuit Court/ Deputy Clerk First Publication: October 12, 2023 Final Publication: November 2, 2023 Sentinel AURORA HIGH POINT AT DIA METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE CONCERNING 2023 BUDGET AMENDMENT AND PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all interested parties that the necessity has arisen to amend the Aurora High Point at DIA Metropolitan District (the “District”) 2023 Budget and that proposed 2024 Budget have been submitted to the Boards of Directors of the District; and that copies of the proposed Amended 2023 Budget and 2024 Budget have been filed at the Districts’ offices, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado, where the same are open for public inspection; and that adoption of Resolutions Amending the 2023 Budget and Adopting the 2024 Budget will be considered at a public meeting of the Board of Directors of the District to be held on Monday, October 23, 2023 at 10:00 a.m.

This These District Board meetings will be held via Zoom and can be joined through the directions below: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5469119353? pwd=SmtlcHJETFhCQUZEcVBBOGZVU 3Fqdz09 Meeting ID: 546 911 9353 Passcode: 912873 Dial In: 1-253-215-8782 Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the Resolutions to Amend the 2023 Budget and adopt the 2024 Budget, inspect and file or register any objections thereto.

AURORA HIGH POINT AT DIA METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By /s/David Solin Secretary Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel COLORADO INTERNATIONAL CENTER METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 & 10 NOTICE CONCERNING 2023 BUDGET AMENDMENTS AND PROPOSED 2024 BUDGETS NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to all interested parties that the necessity has arisen to amend the Colorado International Center Metropolitan District Nos. 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 & 10 (the “Districts”) 2023 Budgets, if necessary, and that proposed 2024 Budgets have been submitted to the Boards of Directors of the Districts; and that copies of the proposed Amended 2023 Budgets and 2024 Budgets have been filed at the Districts’ offices, 141 Union Boulevard, Suite 150, Lakewood, Colorado, where the same are open for public inspection; and that adoption of Resolutions Amending the 2023 Budgets and Adopting the 2024 Budgets will be considered at a public meeting of the Board of Directors of the District to be held on Monday, October 23, 2023 at 10:30 a.m. https://us02web.zoom.us/j/5469119353? pwd=SmtlcHJETFhCQUZEcVBBOGZVU 3Fqdz09 Meeting ID: 546 911 9353 Passcode: 912873 Dial In: 1-253-215-8782 Any elector within the District may, at any time prior to the final adoption of the Resolutions to Amend the 2023 Budgets and adopt the 2024 Budgets, inspect and file or register any objections thereto.

COLORADO INTERNATIONAL CENTER METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 4, 5, 6, 8, 9 & 10 By /s/David Solin Secretary Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, COLORADO NOTICE OF HEARING Case No. 2023PR261 Division: 12 In the Matter of: Felicia Martinez To All Interested Persons: A hearing in this matter will be held November 27, 2023, at 11:00 A.M. The hearing will be in person: Arapahoe County District Court Division 12 7325 S. Potomac St. Centennial, CO 80112 By the Court: /s/ Christina Apostoli District Court Probate Magistrate First Publication: October 5, 2023 Final Publication: November 2, 2023 Sentinel

INVITATION FOR BIDS PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District, a quasi-municipal corporation, and political subdivision of the State of Colorado, is soliciting bids from qualified contractors to be selected as the Environmental Remediation, Building Demolition, and Water Well Capping Contractor at the Aurora Highlands Project in Aurora, CO. Please be advised that the Aerotropolis Area Coordinating Metropolitan District is planning to publish this Invitation for Bids contemporaneously on BidNet. A full copy of this Invitation for Bids will be available at the following link: https://www.bidnetdirect. com/private/supplier/solicitations/search, use the BidNet search tool for open solicitation named “Environmental Remediation, Building Demolition, and Water Well Capping (AACMD)” Reference No. 0000332586.

Bids must be electronically submitted via BidNet before 12:00 p.m. Mountain Time on November 3, 2023. Bids will not be accepted after the foregoing submission deadline, and hardcopies of the Bids will not be accepted.

A public opening will be held at 2:00 p.m.

Mountain Time on November 3, 2023, via Microsoft Teams. A link to this event can be found in the Invitation for Bids.

For further information contact: Aaron Flemming Construction Project Engineer II, AECOM Aaron.Flemming@aecom.com Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel INVITATION TO BID The Aurora High Point at DIA Metro District (hereinafter called the “Owner”) will receive sealed Bids for the 65th Ave and Picadilly Road Project (the “Project”) at 18591 E 64th Ave, Denver CO, 80249 until 10:00 am. November 2nd, 2023. At such time, Bids received will be publicly opened and read aloud.

A description of the Work to be performed is: Infrastructure construction of roads to include installation of sanitary, storm, and water utilities Bid packages will be available for pickup after 10:00 am. On October 17th, 2023. Send request for bid documents to Randy Ficklin II at Randy@ silverbluffcompanies.com. Include company name, contact name, and contact information.

Bids shall be made on the forms furnished by the Owner and shall be enclosed in a sealed envelope and endorsed with the name of the Bidder. A Bid Bond in an amount equal to ten percent (10%) of the total Bid amount will be required. The Bid Bond will be retained by Owner as liquidated damages should the Successful Bidder fail to enter into a Contract with the Owner in accordance with the Bid. Bidders must supply a list of Subcontractors providing $10,000 or more in labor and/or materials to the Project.

Attention is called to the fact that Bidders offer to assume the obligations and liabilities imposed by the Contract Documents.

The Successful Bidder for the Project will be required to furnish a Performance Bond and a Labor and Materials Payment Bond in the full amount of the Contract Price, in conformity with the requirements of the Contract Documents.

Bidders are hereby advised that the Owner reserves the right to not award a Contract until sixty (60) days from the date of the opening of Bids, and Bidders expressly agree to keep their Bids open for the sixty (60) day time period. Owner reserves the right to reject any and all Bids, to waive any informality, technicality or irregularity in any Bid, to disregard all non-conforming, non-responsive, conditional or alternate Bids, to negotiate contract terms with the Successful Bidder, to require statements or evidence of Bidders’ qualifications, including financial statements, and to accept the proposal that is in the opinion of the Owner in its best interest. Owner also reserves the right to extend the Bidding period by Addendum if it appears in its interest to do so.

Any questions concerning this bid shall be directed in writing to: Randy Ficklin II at Randy@silverbluffcompanies.com no later than 4:30pm on October 27th, 2023.

Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET AND HEARING STERLING HILLS WEST METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed budget has been submitted to the STERLING HILLS WEST METROPOLITAN DISTRICT for the ensuing year of 2024. A copy of such proposed budget has been filed in the office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP, 8390 East Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, Colorado, where same is open for public inspection.

Such proposed budget will be considered at a hearing at the regular meeting of the Sterling Hills West Metropolitan District

to be held at 6:30 P.M., on Thursday, November 9, 2023. The meeting will be held via video conference at https://us06web. zoom.us/j/81641233793?pwd=REtUZXp EcWdoNzM0dFd5cjgxemgxZz09 and via telephone conference at Dial-In: 1-719359-4580, Meeting ID: 816 4123 3793, Meeting ID: 816 4123 3793, Passcode: 683527. Any interested elector within the Sterling Hills West Metropolitan District may inspect the proposed budget and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2024 budget.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: STERLING HILLS WEST METROPOLITAN DISTRICT By: /s/ ICENOGLE | SEAVER | POGUE A Professional Corporation Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET HEARING FOR THE HORIZON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 – 10 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Proposed Budgets (“Proposed Budgets”) have been submitted to the Boards of Directors of the HORIZON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 – 10 for the ensuing year of 2024. Copies of such Proposed Budgets have been filed in the office of the District Manager at 8390 E. Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, CO 80111, where same are open for public inspection.

Such Proposed Budgets will be considered at a regular meeting of the HORIZON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 – 10, to be held on November 1, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. via MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetupjoin/19%3ameeting_ZmM5NmVjNmUtZ GI1NC00MjRkLWJiNDctMGFlMzVhMDY yY2Q0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%2 2Tid%22%3a%224aaa468e-93ba-4ee3ab9f-6a247aa3ade0%22%2c%22Oid% 22%3a%227e93cd08-3bae-48d3-b32ed8f57cd88c24%22%7d Call-in #: 720-547-5281; Meeting ID: 326 674 889# Any interested electors within the HORIZON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 – 10 may inspect the Proposed Budgets and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the 2024 budgets.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS: HORIZON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 – 10 By: /s/ ICENOGLE SEAVER POGUE, P.C. Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE AS TO PROPOSED 2024 BUDGET AND NOTICE CONCERNING BUDGET 2023 AMENDMENT PIONEER HILLS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a proposed budget for the ensuing year of 2024 has been submitted to the Board of Directors of the Pioneer Hills Metropolitan District and that such proposed budget will be considered for adoption at a public hearing during a special meeting of the Board of Directors of the District to be conducted via Zoom/Audio at 5:00 p.m., on Tuesday, November 7, 2023. https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88038287202 ?pwd=CvXktrboQgWeo05vHjcpRYzbuD LybE.1 Meeting ID: 880 3828 7202 Passcode: 791755 Telephone: 1 719 359 4580 NOTICE IS FURTHER GIVEN that an amendment to the 2023 budget of the District, if necessary, may also be considered at a public hearing held during the abovereferenced meeting of the Board of Directors.

Copies of the proposed 2024 budget and, if necessary, the proposed amendment of the 2023 budget are on file in the office of the District located at Community Resource Services of Colorado, LLC, 7995 East Prentice Avenue, Suite 103E, Greenwood Village, Colorado and are available for public inspection.

Any interested elector of the District may file or register any objections to the proposed 2024 budget and the proposed amendment of the 2023 budget at any time prior to the final adoption of said budget and proposed budget amendment by the governing body of the District.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS OF THE PIONEER HILLS METROPOLITAN DISTRICT /s/ COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICES OF COLORADO, L.L.C. Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING ON THE AMENDED 2023 BUDGET The Board of Directors (the “Board”) of the FOREST TRACE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3 (the “District”), will hold a public hearing at 2154 E. Commons Ave, Suite 2000, Centennial, Colorado and via teleconference on October 24,

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www.publicnoticecolorado.com 2023, at 4:00 PM, to consider adoption of an amendment to the District’s 2023 budget (the “Amended Budget”). This public hearing can be joined using the following teleconference information: https://us06web.zoom.us/j/84947793525 ?pwd=Lz0nQXiVGiyLymlfmAry6wNZelvp Wt.1 Meeting ID: 849 4779 3525 Passcode: 897507 Call-in Number: +1-720-707-2699 The Amended Budget is available for inspection by the public at the offices of Simmons & Wheeler, 304 Inverness Way S #490, Englewood, CO 80112.

Any interested elector of the District may file any objections to the Amended Budget at any time prior to final adoption of the Amended Budget by the Board.

The agenda for any meeting may be obtained at https://www.foresttracemetro.org/ or by calling (303) 858-1800.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS: FOREST TRACE METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NO. 3, a quasi-municipal corporation and political subdivision of the State of Colorado /s/ WHITE BEAR ANKELE TANAKA & WALDRON Attorneys at Law Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE Notice is hereby given that PODS Enterprises, LLC, located at 21110 E 31st Circle, Aurora, CO 80011, will sell the contents of certain containers at auction to the highest bidder to satisfy owners lien. Auction will be held online at www.StorageTreasures. com starting on November 2, 2023 and ending on November 9, 2023. Contents to be sold may include general household goods, electronics, office & business equipment, furniture, clothing and other miscellaneous personal property.

First Publication: October 12, 2023 Final Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO AMEND 2023 BUDGET FOR THE HORIZON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 – 10 NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that amended budgets have been submitted to the Boards of Directors of the HORIZON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 – 1 0 for the ensuing year of 2023. A copy of the amended budgets have been filed in the office of the District Manager at 8390 E. Crescent Parkway, Suite 300, Greenwood Village, CO 80111, where same are open for public inspection.

Such amended budgets will be considered at a regular meeting of the HORIZON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 – 10, to be held on November 1, 2023 at 9:00 a.m. via MS Teams: https://teams.microsoft.com/l/meetupjoin/19%3ameeting_ZmM5NmVjNmUtZ GI1NC00MjRkLWJiNDctMGFlMzVhMDY yY2Q0%40thread.v2/0?context=%7b%2 2Tid%22%3a%224aaa468e-93ba-4ee3ab9f-6a247aa3ade0%22%2c%22Oid% 22%3a%227e93cd08-3bae-48d3-b32ed8f57cd88c24%22%7d Call-in #: 720-547-5281; Meeting ID: 326 674 889# Any interested electors within the HORIZON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 – 10 may inspect the amended budgets and file or register any objections at any time prior to the final adoption of the amended 2023 budgets.

BY ORDER OF THE BOARDS OF DIRECTORS: HORIZON METROPOLITAN DISTRICT NOS. 1 – 10 By: /s/ ICENOGLE SEAVER POGUE, P.C. Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel STATE OF NEW MEXICO COUNTY OF LINCOLN TWELFTH JUDICIAL DISTRICT Cause No. D1226SA202300002 SUMMONS AND NOTICE OF PENDENCY OF PROCEEDING IN THE MATTER OF ADOPTION PETITION OF KRISTIN ROHDE THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO To: Michael R. Keck GREETINGS: YOU ARE HEREBY NOTIFIED that the above named Petitioner has commenced a proceeding against you in the above entitled Court and Cause, the object thereof being Petition for Adoption of (MLW). The proceedings affect your parental rights over the child.

YOU ARE FURTHER NOTIFIED that, this Notice will be published once a week for three consecutive weeks. Unless you enter your appearance, serve, and file a responsive pleading or motion in said Cause within twenty (20) days of the date of the last publication of this Summons, judgment will be rendered against you and your consent to the adoption and relinquishment of

parental rights may not be required.

Petitioners’ attorney is: Lauren E.A. Truitt, P.C. Lauren Temple, Esq. P.O. Box 402 Ruidoso, NM 88355 First Publication: October 19, 2023 Final Publication: November 2, 2023 Sentinel VEHICLE FOR SALE 2003 CHEVROLET SILVERADO VIN—314443 Extreme Towing 303-344-1400 Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR31026 Estate of Bozena Marek, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County District Court on or before February 5, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Marco D. Chayet Jennifer R. Oviatt Personal Representative 18th Judicial District Public Administrator’s Office P.O. Box 460749, Denver, CO 80246 Phone: 303-355-8520 First Publication: October 5, 2023 Final Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR31065 Estate of Max Benjamin Bailey, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before February 19, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Anna L. Burr, Esq. Atty Reg #: 42205 Law Office of Anna L. Burr, LLC 2851 S. Parker Road, Ste. 230 Aurora, CO 80014 Phone: 720-500-2076 First Publication: October 19, 2023 Final Publication: November 2, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR31096 Estate of Laura Fettinger, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before March 10, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Michael Fettinger Personal Representative 106-04 Metropolitan Ave. Forest Hills, New York 11375 Attorney for Personal Representative David A. Imbler, Esq. Atty Reg #: 52038 Of Counsel, Spaeth & Doyle, LLP 501 S. Cherry St., Suite 700 Glendale, CO 80246 Phone: 303-385-8058 First Publication: October 19, 2023 Final Publication: November 2, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR476 Estate of Perry Glenn Tan Ticobay, aka Perry Ticobay, aka Glenn Ticobay, aka Perry Tan Ticobay, aka Glenn Tan Ticobay, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before February 12, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Froilan Tan Ticobay Personal Representative 2614 S. Orion St. Lakewood, CO 80228 First Publication: October 12, 2023 Final Publication: October 26, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2003PR30784 Estate of Ronald Lee Lantz, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before February 15, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Kathleen Joan Greising Personal Representative P.O. Box 203 Fairplay, CO 80220 Attorney for Personal Representative Frederick V. Sprouse, #15398 SPROUSE LAW, LLC PO Box 4837, Breckenridge, CO 80424 Phone: 970-423-6678 First Publication: October 12, 2023 Final Publication: October 26, 2023 Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR273 Estate of Robert E. Black, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before November 29, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Debra Swaschnig Personal Representative 11555 E, Mexico Dr. Aurora, CO 80012 First Publication: October 5, 2023 Final Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR30244 Estate of Cecil Bills aka Cecil Bills, Sr. aka Cecil B. Bills aka Cecil B. Bills, Sr., Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado, on or before December 30, 2023, or the claims may be forever barred.

Irma Bills c/o Fischer Law Firm P.C. 1777 S. Harrison St., Ste. 1500 Denver, CO 80210 First Publication: October 19, 2023 Final Publication: November 2, 2023 Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR30606 Estate of Albert Michael Abegg aka Mick Abegg, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Adams County, Colorado, on or before February 12, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

John Abegg Personal Representative 2995 Challenger Point Dr. Loveland, CO 80538 First Publication: October 12, 2023 Final Publication: October 26, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR30967 Estate of Wayne F. Imlay aka Wayne Frederick Imlay, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before February 12, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jason Imlay and Renae Lee Co-Personal Represenatives c/o Barry S. Korman, Esq. Atty Reg #: 26742 1800 W. Littleton Blvd.

Littleton, CO 80120 Phone: 303-808-2229 First Publication: October 12, 2023 Final Publication: October 26, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR31048 Estate of Barbara J. Dolgan, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are re- quired to present them to the Per- sonal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before February 5, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Jeffrey I. Dolgan Personal Representative 7158 S. Lisbon Ct.

Centennial, CO 80016 Attorney for Personal Representative David M. Swank Atty Reg #: 23408 Swank Law Firm, LLC 4600 S. Syracuse St., Ste. 900 Denver, CO 80237 Phone: 303-773-2000 First Publication: October 5, 2023 Final Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR31085 Estate of Dennis Ditsworth, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before February 19, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Lindsey Ditsworth Personal Representative 4849 Wagontrail Court Parker CO 80134 Attorney for Personal Representative Patricia L. Clowdus, Esq., Atty. Reg. 8744 Ashley L. Thompson, Atty. Reg. 44059 Robinson, Diss and Clowdus, P.C. 3200 Cherry Creek South Drive, Suite 340 Denver, CO 80209 Phone: 303-861-4154 First Publication: October 19, 2023 Final Publication: November 2, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR31090 Estate of James William Gonos, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before January 25, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Attorney for Personal Representative Anna L. Burr Atty Reg #: 42205 Law Office of Anna L. Burr, LLC 2851 S. Parker Road, Ste. 230 Aurora, CO 80014 Phone: 720-500-1076 First Publication: October 5, 2023 Final Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR31105 Estate of Merle Jane Kath aka Jane Kath, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before February 12, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Karen J. Wenke Personal Representative 15017 E. Arkansas Dr. Aurora, CO 80012 Attorney for Personal Representative Bette Heller, Esq. Atty. Reg. #: 10521 19671 E. Euclid Dr., Centennial, CO 80016 Phone: 303-690-7092 First Publication: October 12, 2023 Final Publication: October 26, 2023 Sentinel

Carlyn Parker Personal Representative 351 S. Poplar St. Denver, CO 80224 Attorney for Personal Representative Emily L. Bowman, Esq. Atty Reg #: 47166 Kirch Rounds Bowman & Deffenbaugh, P.C. Marketplace Tower II 3025 S. Parker Road, Ste. 820 Aurora, CO 80014 Phone: 303-671-7726 First Publication: October 12, 2023 Final Publication: October 26, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR31145 Estate of Beverly A. Bryant aka Bev Bryant aka Beverly Bryant aka Beverly Anne Bryant, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before February 28, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Samantha Criswell Personal Representative 6737 S. White Crow Way Aurora, CO 80016 Attorney for Personal Representative James W. Britt Atty. Reg. #: 8009 Britt Law Offices, LLC 9510 La Costa Lane Lone Tree, CO 80124 Phone: 720-937-8147 First Publication: October 19, 2023 Final Publication: November 2, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR31147 Estate of Kathy Sue Smith aka Susie Smith, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the Arapahoe County District Court on or before February 19, 2024 or the claims may be forever barred.

Brittany Kaye Varisco Personal Representative c/o CHAYET & DANZO, LLC 650 S. Cherry St., #710 Denver, CO 80246 Phone: 303-355-8500 First Publication: October 19, 2023 Final Publication: November 2, 2023 Sentinel NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR481 Estate of Janice Dorothy Williams, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of the Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before April 25, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

Gregory Andrew Hebert Personal Representative 2348 Vintage Dr. Colorado Springs, CO 80920 First Publication: October 19, 2023 Final Publication: November 2, 2023 Sentinel

NOTICE TO CREDITORS

BY PUBLICATION PURSUANT TO §15-12-801, C.R.S. Case No. 2023PR31127 Estate of Blanche Ruth McKinney aka Blanche R. McKinney aka Blanche McKinney, Deceased.

All persons having claims against the above-named estate are required to present them to the Personal Representative or to the District Court of Arapahoe County, Colorado, on or before February 12, 2024, or the claims may be forever barred.

DISTRICT COURT, ARAPAHOE COUNTY, S TATE OF COLORADO CONSOLIDATED NOTICE OF PUBLICATION

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NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN THAT IN THE FOLLOWING ACTIONS FILED IN THIS COURT UNDER THE “UNIFORM DISSOLUTION OF MARRIAGE” AND “UNIFORM CHILD CUSTODY JURISDICTION” ACTS, due diligence has been used to obtain personal service within the State of Colorado and further efforts would be to no avail; therefore, publication has been ordered: CASE NUMBER 2023DR1083

NAME Marina Victorovna Shadrina v Albert Alexandrovich Golynko

TYPE OF ACTION #NoPayWallHere Custody

2023DR1125

Audrea Deon Jenkins v Keith P. Jenkins

2023DR30115

Enedino Gonzalez v Maria Dina Rivas Vazquez & John Doe

Custody

2023DR30352

Kayla Maudean Udell v Joshua James Udell

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2023DR31037

Sindy Lizeth Deras Hernandez v Orlando Carvajal Deras

Custody

sentinelcolorado.com Dissolution

A copy of the Petition and Summons may be obtained from the Clerk of the above Court between 7:30 a.m. and 4:30 p.m.; failure to respond to this service by publication within thirty-five (35) days of the publication date may result in a default judgment against the nonappearing party.

SHANA KLOEK CLERK OF THE COURT 7325 S. POTOMAC ST. CENTENNIAL, CO 80112 /s/ Megan Charlebois Publication: October 19, 2023 Sentinel

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his head wounds. Haubert told a police sergeant immediately after the incident, “I was going to shoot him, but I didn’t know if I had a round in it or not.”

At a news conference, thenchief Vanessa Wilson called Haubert’s actions “very despicable” and said his behavior was “not police work.” A few days after the incident, he was charged with felony menacing — the same charge he’d avoided in 2009 — and assault, along with official oppression and official misconduct. Haubert’s trial is scheduled to begin in January.

For standing by and watching, Martinez was charged and found guilty of failing to intervene in another officer’s excessive use of force. While Martinez’s lawyers say she has since lost her POST certification, this fact is not reflected in the POST database, which also shows nothing about Haubert’s pending felony case.

Aurora’s interim police chief, Art Acevedo, declined through a spokesman to talk about current POST reporting rules and how they allow for the omission of pre-2022 incidents of misconduct from officers’ profiles in the statewide database. The spokesman referred questions to POST. Aurora’s Police Department currently employs about 640 POST-certified officers. As of Oct. 17, only 13 current and former Aurora officers show up in POST’s database as having experienced some kind of disciplinary event or action: Edward Acuti — June 26, 2022, credibility report for demonstrated bias. — Acuti was demoted in 2022 after a series of six incidents when he yelled at, threatened and generally escalated interactions with members of the public. During one incident, when the Black occupants of a car were removed from their vehicle during a traffic stop and said they were afraid of the police, Acuti told them to “just keep breathing.”

In a letter upholding Acuti’s demotion, Aurora’s Civil Service Commission described this as “an undeniable and indefensible reference to the George Floyd shooting, the death of Elijah McClain, and other incidents between police and citizens resulting in the deaths of Black individuals.” Acuti also threatened the officer who reported his behavior to a lieutenant. Acuti was no longer employed by the Aurora Police Department as of October.

According to the POST database, he remains POST certified.

Roland Albert — March 27, 2020, decertification — Albert pleaded guilty to felony theft in 2019 after stealing tens of thousands of dollars from police charities that had been set up to pay for flights to the funerals of slain cops and also support the families of officers who were killed or injured in the line of duty. Albert served as treasurer for the groups he victimized, Brotherhood for the Fallen Aurora and the Aurora Police Orphan Fund, and embezzled the funds between

2017 and 2018. He resigned after police officials became aware of the theft. While Albert’s POST profile includes a decertification action and indicates that he is no longer employed by any police department, his certification status is listed as “CERTIFIED.” Martin Garland — Jan. 4, 2022, credibility report for lying or knowingly withholding information — Garland crashed a city vehicle into something after drinking beer and was “inconsistent, incomplete and untruthful” in his recounting of events to internal affairs investigators after the fact, according to police. He also waited until the following morning to report the crash, and so police were unable to test his bloodalcohol level. Garland resigned in lieu of termination in December 2021. According to his POST profile, he is not employed by any Colorado law enforcement agency, though he remains POST certified.

Douglas Harroun — Jan. 12, 2023, being the subject of a criminal investigation; Jan. 25, 2023, credibility report for being under a criminal or administrative investigation; Jan. 30, 2023, resigned while under investigation; June 15, 2023, being the subject of a criminal investigation — Harroun was charged with assault in January after an incident when he allegedly attacked a disabled woman, punching her in the head multiple times. He was off-duty and had been placed on administrative leave at the time for shooting a bystander in the leg while responding to a domestic violence incident several days earlier. Harroun was charged in connection with the officer-involved shooting in June. Both cases are pending. He resigned from the Aurora Police Department in January. For the time being, he remains POST certified.

Eduardo Landeros — March 17, 2023, being the subject of a criminal investigation; June 21, 2023, credibility report for being charged with or convicted of a crime or policy violation involving dishonesty — Landeros pleaded guilty in August to a felony charge of criminally-negligent homicide after crashing his police vehicle into another car, killing the occupant. Investigators say Landeros was driving more than 100 mph at the time without having activated his lights or siren while responding to a nonemergent burglary call. Landeros resigned from the Aurora Police Department in April. For now, he remains POST certified.

Robert Lyons — March 11, 2022, decertification — Lyons left work early nine times without getting authorization and failed to work about 34 hours between August and September 2020. When confronted by a supervisor, he lied and said he had not taken that time off. He admitted to lying when he was interviewed by internal affairs investigators. Lyons was fired in February 2021 for time theft and

lying. His POST profile indicates he was decertified in March 2022, although his certification status is still listed as “CERTIFIED.” Michael Mangino — March 1, 2013, decertification — Mangino was charged with multiple felonies after police found sexually explicit images on his cellphone of a 15-year-old girl he had arrested in 2011. He was working as a DARE officer at local schools at the time.

Mangino resigned after the photos were discovered. He pleaded guilty to felony exploitation of a child in 2012 and was sentenced to 90 days in jail and a suspended three-year prison sentence.

Mangino was decertified in 2013, as indicated by his profile in the POST database.

Todd McCarl — Dec. 9, 2005, decertification — McCarl’s POST profile indicates that he was decertified in 2005 and is no longer employed by any Colorado law enforcement agency.

The decertification action was associated with a harassment case, and court records indicate that McCarl pleaded guilty to misdemeanor harassment involving physical contact in August 2005. In response to a Colorado Criminal Justice Records Act request, an Aurora Police Department representative said the agency does not have any publicly-releasable personnel documents concerning McCarl.

Patricia Perea — June 21, 2023, credibility report for being charged with or convicted of a crime or policy violation involving dishonesty; Sept. 8, 2023, decertification — Perea completed reports saying she had submitted criminal case filings to the district attorney’s office, while she in fact had not, according to internal affairs records. She was found to have violated several department policies earlier this year and resigned before she could be disciplined. Perea’s POST profile indicates that she was decertified in September and is no longer employed by any Colorado law enforcement agency.

Morgan Sellman — March 1, 2013, decertification — Sellman resigned shortly after his arrest in December 2010 for possessing hundreds of digital files of child pornography, which depicted the abuse of children as young as 2 years old. He served in an administrative role for the department’s DARE program and formerly worked as a DARE officer in schools, though police said they found no evidence of Sellman personally having inappropriate contact with children. Sellman pleaded guilty to possession of child pornography in 2012 and was sentenced to 90 days in jail and 10 years of intensive sex offender probation. He was decertified in 2013, according to his POST profile.

Leland Silver — Dec. 7, 2018, decertification — Silver accessed a secure law enforcement database to help his girlfriend get a job by looking up another woman with the same name. He queried the woman’s Social Security number and date of birth so his girlfriend

could use them to apply for a job without having to explain her own criminal record. Silver’s girlfriend did not use the information and reported his behavior to the police. He was fired, convicted of official misconduct in 2018 and decertified, though his certification status is still listed as “CERTIFIED” in his POST profile.

Julie Stahnke — May 1, 2023, resignation in lieu of termination for cause; June 2, 2023, credibility report for being charged with or convicted of a crime or policy violation involving dishonesty; Sept. 8, 2023, decertification — Stahnke was accused of domestic violence toward her then-wife in November 2021. She was arrested, briefly jailed and presented with a restraining order that required her to stay away from her wife and her wife’s home. Soon after, she and an Aurora police commander, Cassidee Carlson, drove back to the home to retrieve Stahnke’s truck. Stahnke’s ex-wife saw Stahnke and the commander, and called the police. The original domestic violence case against Stahnke was dropped, but she was found guilty of violating a restraining order in 2022 and resigned from the Aurora Police Department before she could be fired. Stahnke was decertified in 2023.

Douglas Wilkinson — Feb. 3, 2022, termination for cause; April 26, 2022, credibility report for demonstrated bias — Wilkinson was serving as the president of one of Aurora’s two police unions, the Aurora Police Association, when he sent an email to union members mocking the diversity component of the city’s consent decree with the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. The 2021 email said the decree was created in part to force out white male police officers and replace them with females and minorities. Wilkinson also said the city might as well “hire 10% illegal aliens, 50% weed smokers, 10% crackheads, and a few child molesters and murderers to round it out. You know, so we can make the department look like the ‘community.’” He was fired for his remarks in 2022, a decision that was later upheld by Aurora’s Civil Service Commission. Wilkinson’s POST profile indicates that he is not currently employed by any Colorado law enforcement agency.

He remains POST certified.

Through its “In the Blue” investigative series and years of accountability reporting, the Sentinel has learned of numerous other officers whose behavior has invited everything from public scrutiny to criminal investigations — but not inclusion in the POST database. That means records of their misconduct aren’t readily available to police departments and sheriff’s offices that may be considering hiring them: Cassidee Carlson — Carlson participated in the incident that led to Julie Stahnke’s decertification in 2021 (see above), driving Stahnke to Stahnke’s wife’s house, even though a restraining order had been put in place barring

Stahnke from the immediate area of the residence. The judge who presided over Stahnke’s bench trial reprimanded Carlson for her behavior, describing it as “troubling.” Carlson was investigated by the Aurora Police Department for policy violations, but then-interim police chief Dan Oates set aside the finding that Carlson had violated department policy and promoted her to the rank of division chief in 2022. She has since retired from APD.

Darian Dasko and Madisen Moen — Dasko and Moen

ordered a Black woman and her passengers — four girls aged 17, 14, 12 and 6 — to exit their SUV at gunpoint and made them lie on the hot pavement of a parking lot after mistakenly identifying their vehicle as stolen in 2020. The incident ratcheted up local and national scrutiny of the Aurora Police Department, with thenchief Vanessa Wilson saying in a statement that she was “angry and disgusted” by what had happened.

Dasko was suspended from his job for 160 hours and removed from his position as a field training officer. An APD staff roster that the department shared with the Sentinel earlier this year indicated Dasko was still employed by the department. Moen changed her last name to Burdzinski following the incident and appears under that name on the roster, and her POST profile indicates she is still employed by APD. Charles DeShazer — DeShazer was fired after referring to a group of Black residents as “Alabama porch monkeys” in 2017. His firing was overturned, and he was reinstated by the Aurora Civil Service commission in 2018.

DeShazer had previously been accused of using a racial slur while arresting a Black woman and her daughter in 2006, and the woman subsequently received $175,000 in a settlement with the city.

DeShazer’s POST profile indicates that he is currently certified but is no longer employed by any Colorado law enforcement agency.

Kyle Dittrich, Jaron Jones and Erica Marrero — Dittrich and

Marrero were fired and Jones resigned in 2020 after department leaders learned of a photograph the group had taken re-enacting the chokehold that officers performed on Elijah McClain two months after the 23-year-old’s death. The photo was taken near McClain’s memorial. The group sent the photo to two of the officers who confronted McClain, Jason Rosenblatt and Nathan Woodyard, to which Rosenblatt replied, “ha ha.” National and international news outlets reported on this development in the McClain case.

Then-Chief Vanessa Wilson called a news conference after she was made aware of the photos and denounced the officers’ actions as a “crime against humanity and decency,” adding that “to even think about doing such a thing is beyond comprehension, and it is reprehensible.” The POST profiles for Dittrich and Jones ›› See SECRETS, 39

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indicate they are not currently certified and do not work for any Colorado law enforcement agency.

No information about Marrero is available in the database.

Matthew Green — Green threatened Elijah McClain with a police dog while the 23-yearold was pinned on the ground in 2019, saying, “If you keep messing around, I’m gonna bring my dog out, and he’s gonna dog-bite you.”

An independent panel that the city convened to review McClain’s fatal encounter with police wrote in a report that McClain did not appear to be resisting at the time.

According to the same report, Green was disciplined and removed from the department’s canine unit following the incident. Green eventually resigned, but applied for reinstatement and was rehired earlier this year.

Michael Hawkins — Hawkins body-slammed and stomped on a woman who got into an argument with him after she drove her boyfriend — who was suffering from a gunshot wound — to an urgent care clinic in 2015. The woman was arrested and charged with assault, though the case was later dismissed, and she subsequently won a $335,000 settlement from the city in 2018. Hawkins retired the same year.

Levi Huffine — Huffine was fired after doing nothing to help a woman who was hobbled, inverted and pleading for help in the back of his cruiser in 2019. “During transport, (Huffine) blatantly disregarded Ms. Kelly’s safety and security,” a report by the city’s Civil Service Commission found. “(Huffine) admitted that, because she was hobbled, Ms. Kelly was likely to end up on the floorboard. He admitted he heard her cries for help and screams that she could not breathe and that she thought her neck would break. (Huffine) chose to ignore Ms. Kelly’s outcries because he felt she was ‘just another drunk.’”

Jeffrey Longnecker — A judge ruled that Longnecker breached a criminal suspect’s Fourth Amendment rights when he searched him without probable cause after a 2017 car crash. APD didn’t discipline Longnecker for the infringement and did not tell him about it for at least seven months. Longnecker has been named as a defendant in at least four civil rights lawsuits.

None of those lawsuits triggered investigations into his behavior by the department, according to his disciplinary records.

Ryan Marker — Records show that, in 2017, Marker pulled over a drunk woman whose breath alcohol was more than twice the limit for DUI, but turned off his body camera, gave her a ride home and didn’t charge her because she claimed she was friends with the police chief. He was found to have broken department policy for giving preferential treatment to the woman, but records show he received no discipline. In another case, APD paid a $35,000 civil settlement to a disabled man whom Marker and a fellow officer threw to the ground during an arrest for which they had no warrant.

— Both officers were found by an Arapahoe County District Court judge in 2019 to have unlawfully detained a man in a burglary case and given testimony about the incident that was not credible. Timmons is still employed by the Aurora Police Department, while Neely is no longer employed by any Colorado law enforcement agency, according to the state’s POST database.

Jordan Odneal — Odneal was fired in 2020 for saying that overtime pay had been approved by his supervisor when it wasn’t. He had a history of falsifying reports and other problems.

In 2019, his peers found he had failed to help or file a report for a woman who claimed she had been scammed and threatened. The woman violently arrested by Michael Hawkins (see above) also named Odneal and another officer in her lawsuit against the city, saying they had falsified documents that led to her being arrested. Prosecutors dropped the charges against the woman, and she settled with the city for $335,000.

William Oxford — In February of this year, police announced that Oxford was under investigation for an August 2022 incident in which he threw a handcuffed man to the ground, causing the man to bleed, while escorting him out of the Medical Center of Aurora.

Video from a body-worn camera shows Oxford telling Alessandro Torres-Encinas to “stop resisting,” placing his right hand behind his neck and shoving him so the side of Torres-Encinas’ face slammed into the floor. The police department indicated Oxford was removed from enforcement duties in February and would remain in that position until the conclusion of criminal and internal investigations. While Oxford’s POST profile indicated that he was being criminally investigated earlier this year, the profile no longer includes this note.

He is also no longer employed in law enforcement, according to POST. David Sandoval — A woman Sandoval previously had been ro m a n t i ca l l y i nvo l ve d w i t h complained he had been stalking and harassing her after using police databases to research her contact information and make repeated unwanted contact, both in text messages and in person, between 2016 and 2018. A 33-page report by investigators in the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office concluded that Sandoval should be charged with crimes of harassment and domestic violence. Yet, after reviewing the case chronicling more than 100 text messages and calls from Sandoval to the woman over the course of four months, the 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office declined to prosecute Sandoval, claiming there was not sufficient evidence.

According to an APD internal affairs investigation completed in March 2019, Sandoval admitted to using a police database to find the woman’s home address, a violation of Colorado law. APD punished Sandoval with a 240-hour unpaid suspension. As of March 2023, Sandoval was still a sergeant with the agency and led one of the department’s Direct Action Response Teams, according to department spokesperson Faith Goodrich.

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