Logan Smith

2 weeks ago | kesq.com | Logan Smith

By Logan SmithClick here for updates on this story LAKEWOOD, Colorado ( KCNC) - A 27-year-old Colorado man has been indicted along with 10 other people from across the country for paying for the creation and distribution of videos made overseas of adult and baby monkeys being mutilated, tortured and killed. The group communicated its desires for acts on the monkeys to a minor in Indonesia, according to a federal indictment unsealed Friday. That minor carried out the acts.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Logan Smith

A 27-year-old Colorado man has been indicted along with 10 other people from across the country for paying for the creation and distribution of videos made overseas of adult and baby monkeys being mutilated, tortured and killed. The group communicated its desires for acts on the monkeys to a minor in Indonesia, according to a federal indictment unsealed Friday. That minor carried out the acts. Those acts included sodomizing the monkeys with small instruments and burning or cutting their genitals.

3 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Logan Smith

A plane departing Rocky Mountain Metropolitan Airport in Broomfield crashed Saturday morning shortly after takeoff. The plane went down west of Broomfield and immediately north of U.S. 36 near railroad tracks and in a field. The crashed plane caught fire, according to a social media post from North Metro Fire Rescue. The fire was extinguished within minutes.

3 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Logan Smith

A 73-year-old Wyoming man was sentenced Friday for aiding in the suicide of a co-worker in Colorado. Mark Switzer received a four-year prison term in the Colorado Department of Corrections from Weld County District Court Judge Audrey Galloway. Switzer pleaded guilty in February to a manslaughter charge. Prosecutors, in turn, dropped the first degree murder charge which Switzer was originally arrested on. Switzer was accused of shooting 49-year-old Nathan "Tom" Combs in May of 2017.

3 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Logan Smith

Morris, an alligator believed to be more than 80 years old and the source of an impressive list of movie and TV credits, passed away last week at the Colorado Gator Farm in southern Colorado. Farm owner and operator Jay Young announced Morris's death in a social media post Sunday. Young sat on the side of an enclosure's pool, stroking the deceased's animal head and tearfully expressing his grief.  "He started acting strange a week ago.