Aurora police found the body under an overpass crossing Toll Gate Creek near Potomac Street and Potomac Circle on April 1, according to a news release.

Officers first learned about the body when they responded to a fight near I-225 and Sixth Avenue, according to the release. The people involved in the fight told officers there were human remains under a nearby overpass north of the intersection.

The remains belong to an unidentified Black man in his 30s who was about 5-foot-5 and about 140 pounds, according to the Arapahoe County coroner’s office.

The man had short, curly black hair and was wearing a brown leather jacket, a fluorescent green sweatshirt, a gray-and-black hooded shirt, black sweatpants, camouflage shorts and light brown boots.

Police said the remains may belong to a man named Ben who frequented the East Colfax Avenue and I-225 corridors before his death. Aurora homicide detectives and the coroner’s office have not been able to positively ID the man, and no ID was found with the body.

It’s not clear how the man died.

Anyone with any information is asked to call the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office at 720-874-3625 or Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

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U.S. District Judge Charlotte Sweeney approved a temporary restraining order Monday night after the American Civil Liberties Union sued President Donald Trump and members of his administration on behalf of two Venezuelan men, referred to only by their initials, “and others similarly situated” who have been accused of being part of the Tren de Aragua gang.

For two weeks, the federal government is barred from using the Alien Enemies Act to remove plaintiffs D.B.U, R.M.M. and any other noncitizens accused of being members of the Venezuelan gang from both the state and the country.

“This ruling is a critical step toward restoring the rule of law in the face of a rogue administration that has shown utter disregard for the Constitution,” Raquel Lane-Arellano, the communications manager at the Colorado Immigrant Rights Coalition, said Tuesday.

The judge’s order will remain in effect until a hearing is held in the case in Denver on April 21.

The White House did not respond to requests for comment Tuesday.

Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act in March, proclaiming Venezuelans who are members of TdA and not lawful residents of the U.S. “are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed as Alien Enemies.” The administration has used the act to send immigrants — including at least one Venezuelan who had been detained in Colorado — to a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador.

The act has been used only three other times in American history, most recently to intern Japanese-American citizens during World War II.

The U.S. Supreme Court ruled last week that anyone being deported under the declaration deserved a hearing in federal court first.

That led federal judges in New York and Texas to place temporary holds on deportations in those areas until Trump’s Republican administration presented a procedure for allowing such appeals. Sweeney’s order follows in their footsteps.

The Colorado order also comes as the ACLU warned, in an emergency filing, that the Trump administration as recently as Monday night may have been preparing Venezuelan men in custody in Aurora for another deportation flight.

The civil rights organization’s attorneys said they had received reports Monday that Venezuelan men being held at U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s contract detention facility who were accused of being affiliated with the TdA gang “were rousted from bed and told that they would be leaving.”

The men repeatedly asked where they would be taken, and ICE  agents allegedly refused to answer, ACLU officials said in the document. The flight was later canceled and, as of Tuesday morning, the men remained in Colorado, the attorneys said.

Colorado immigrant advocacy groups applauded the ACLU’s legal challenge to the Alien Enemies Act and the judge’s order.

“The disappearance of our neighbors to a notorious prison without due process should be a wake-up call to the people of the United States,” said Jennifer Piper, the program director for the Colorado office of the American Friends Service Committee.

She added that the Trump administration is asking Congress to triple the budget for immigration detention from $25 billion to more than $60 billion — a request her group opposes.

“We hope that, as a country, we can do more than sending people to foreign prisons,” said Andrea Loya, the executive director of Aurora-based nonprofit Casa de Paz, on Tuesday. “We urge the federal government to make it right for the people they sent to El Salvador without due process.”

The Trump administration’s implementation of the Alien Enemies Act and the lawsuits that followed have become a flashpoint as more than 200 alleged TdA members have been sent from the U.S. to the Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, in El Salvador, escalating tension between the White House and federal courts.

Inmates in El Salvadoran prisons face “life-threatening conditions, persecution and torture,” ACLU officials argued in court documents. That constitutes “irreparable harm,” they said.

D.B.U., a 31-year-old man who fled Venezuela after he was imprisoned for his political activity and protesting against the Venezuelan government, was arrested in January during a raid of what law enforcement and immigration officials have repeatedly called a “Tren de Aragua party” in Adams County.

The Drug Enforcement Administration said 41 people arrested that night were living in Colorado illegally and claimed dozens were connected to the TdA gang. None of those people were criminally charged.

According to the ACLU, D.B.U. was identified as a gang member based on a tattoo of his niece’s name — his only tattoo. He “vehemently denied” being a TdA member.

The second plaintiff in the lawsuit, 25-year-old R.M.M., fled Venezuela after two members of his family were killed by the TdA gang. ACLU officials said in the lawsuit he was afraid the gang would also kill him, his wife and his children.

R.M.M. was detained in March after federal agents saw him standing with other Hispanic men near their cars outside a Colorado residence that law enforcement believed was connected to the TdA gang, according to court records. Like D.B.U., R.M.M. was identified as a gang member based on his tattoos, including one of his birth year, one of his mother’s name, one of “religious significance” and a character from the Monopoly board game.

He is not and never has been a member of TdA, ACLU officials wrote in court documents.

The ACLU claims Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act is invalid because the TdA gang is not a “foreign nation or government,” and there has been no “invasion or predatory incursion” — both of which are required to invoke the act.

“Criminal activity does not meet the longstanding definitions of those statutory requirements,” ACLU officials said in the lawsuit. “Thus, the government’s attempt to summarily remove Venezuelan noncitizens exceeds the wartime authority that Congress delegated in the AEA.”

In addition to Trump, the Colorado lawsuit names U.S. Attorney General Pamela Bondi, Secretary of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Kristi Noem, Acting Director of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Todd Lyons, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, Director of the Denver Field Office for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement Robert Gaudian and Denver Contract Detention Facility warden Dawn Ceja.

The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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At about 5:30 p.m. Monday, Larimer County sheriff’s deputies pulled over a man near Rocky Mountain Avenue and U.S. 34 in Loveland, according to a news release from the office.

The man fled, starting a car chase that continued onto southbound I-25 until he blew a tire and was forced to come to a stop, sheriff’s officials said.

Sheriff’s officials said the man got out of his car on I-25 with a gun and ran across the interstate. When he jumped over the center median of the highway, he was hit by northbound traffic.

Northbound and southbound I-25 were closed near exit 245 for Mead and Colorado 66 for three and a half hours Monday night, according to the release.

The closure started just after 5:45 p.m. and ended at about 9:15 p.m., according to the Colorado Department of Transportation.

The pedestrian was taken to the hospital, and no update on his condition was available Tuesday.

“The suspect displayed a complete disregard for the safety of others on the highway, driving recklessly and refusing to comply with law enforcement,” Larimer County Undersheriff Joe Shellhammer said in the release.

This is a developing story and may be updated. 

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The flight, UA2325, took off from Denver International Airport just after 7:20 p.m. Sunday. Less than an hour later, it was forced to return to DIA “to address a possible wildlife strike,” United spokesman Russell Carlton said.

The 153 passengers and six crew members were brought back to the gate loaded onto a new plane to resume their journey to Edmonton in Alberta, Carlton said.

None of the people onboard the Boeing 737-800 were injured.

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“You going to prison isn’t going to make you a decent person, you going to prison isn’t going to bring back our son,” said Sally Glass, Christian’s mother, addressing the table where former Clear Creek County sheriff’s deputy Andrew Buen sat. “…But you’ve done so much damage, and you must not be able to get away with it.”

Sally Glass choked on her words throughout her speech to the judge during the Monday morning sentencing hearing, fighting back tears. At times, she completely stopped speaking to breathe deeply and compose herself, allowing silence to fill the courtroom.

Buen was convicted in February of criminally negligent homicide in the 2022 killing of Christian Glass after his first trial ended with the jury deadlocked on a murder charge. He was also convicted of reckless endangerment in that initial jury trial.

During the Monday morning hearing, Clear Creek County District Court Judge Catherine Cheroutes gave Buen the maximum possible sentence: three years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for the homicide charge and 120 days in jail for the reckless endangerment charge. The sentences will be served concurrently.

“Mr. Buen killed Christian Glass, and that deserves punishment,” Cheroutes said. “There’s no question in my mind that that is appropriate. … This was about power. This wasn’t a mistake.”

Cheroutes said the sentence needed to address “the needs of the victims and the community” while also serving as an example and promoting respect for the law.

Still, the maximum sentence doesn’t feel like enough and pales in comparison to the years Buen stole from his son, Christian’s father, Simon Glass, said.

“What a waste, what a terrible waste,” Simon Glass said.

He said the family is still struggling to come to terms with his son’s death and that talking about his son in the past tense feels “completely alien, like someone else is speaking.”

Simon Glass also struggled to complete his testimony before Cheroutes during the hearing. He said all of his once-happy memories of his son had been infused with pain — not just from the shooting, but from the drawn-out legal process and multiple trials.

“This entire trial has been incredibly difficult for all of us,” said Katie Glass, Christian’s sister. “I am not the same person I was before. I have anxiety attacks, I have depression, I can’t live my life like I used to be able to. And I just miss him.”

Buen shot and killed Christian Glass on June 10, 2022, after the 22-year-old called 911 for help when his car got stuck on a rock in Clear Creek County. Glass, who had marijuana and amphetamine in his system, was experiencing a mental health crisis and told dispatchers he was afraid of “skinwalkers” and people chasing him.

“He died terrified, in pain and all alone,” Katie Glass said. “That’s what hurts me the most.”

Seven law enforcement officers responded to Glass’s 911 call and spent more than an hour trying to coax him out of the car while he was experiencing delusions and paranoia. Eventually, Buen decided to break Glass’s window and pull him from the vehicle.

When officers broke the window, Glass grabbed a knife and officers fired a Taser at him and shot him with beanbags in an attempt to force him to drop it. Instead, Glass twisted in the driver’s seat and thrust the knife toward an officer standing next to the shattered window behind him, prompting Buen to shoot Glass five times. Glass then stabbed himself several times.

A separate grand jury investigation into the incident in 2022 found Glass had committed no crime, had acted in panic and self-defense before he was killed and had never actually come close to stabbing the officers. The involved law enforcement agencies agreed to a $19 million settlement with Glass’s parents in May.

Buen was fired after he was indicted.

“Christian deserved better, you all deserved better,” Buen said during the sentencing hearing, standing before the court in his orange prison jumpsuit. “This is something I have to live with.”

He said there were a million things he could have done better that night and he wishes that he had done differently.

Simon Glass called out the grief displayed by Buen, his attorney and his supporters as performative. He said the former deputy has continually shown “a complete lack of remorse throughout the trial.” Buen and his attorney insisted the regret was genuine.

The former deputy said that every time he speaks with his family, they talk about their favorite memories and time together.

“I can’t imagine sharing those moments and having the person that they’re about be gone,” Buen said.

Buen’s sister, Jennifer, said she’s had to deal with the “unbearable pain of watching your brother slip away.”

She and her daughter, Abigail, told the judge that Andrew Buen changed after the 2022 shooting. They said he was “beyond broken and hurt” and became distanced.

Buen’s mother and close friends also testified on behalf of the ex-deputy, asking the court for “mercy.”

Judge Cheroutes said she truly believed the group’s statements about Buen, that he is a kind, gentle and loyal person, but she said that all changed once he was in uniform and armed.

She said law enforcement officers must remember that they are public servants and their duty is not to violate their oath to serve and protect.

“And that is exactly what happened in this case,” she said.

Andrew Buen’s supervisor, former Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Sgt. Kyle Gould, was not there during the incident but permitted Buen to break into Glass’s car. Gould pleaded guilty to failing to intervene in the excessive force of another officer in 2023 and was sentenced to two years of probation.

An additional four law enforcement officers face charges of failing to intervene in the excessive force of another officer; their criminal cases are pending.

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The 20-year-old woman, who was driving the car, ran a red light at the intersection of Central Park Boulevard and Montview Boulevard at about 3:47 a.m., according to a news release from the Aurora Police Department.

After running the light, she drove off the left side of the road, spun out and struck a traffic control signal box head-on, police said in the release. The crash temporarily knocked out power to the traffic lights at the intersection.

Other drivers stopped to help and pulled the woman and her passenger, a 21-year-old man, from the crashed car, police said.

The man died from his injuries at the scene of the crash, police said. Paramedics took the woman to the hospital with “serious” injuries.

Police believe speed and alcohol were factors in the crash but said investigators are waiting on the results of the woman’s blood test.

This is Aurora’s ninth fatal crash of 2025, police said.

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Little to none of it is expected to stick, but the snow will make roads wet and possibly slushy during the morning commute, NWS forecasters said.

Roads in the foothills and mountains could be slick Monday morning, forecasters said.

Snow showers will wind down in Denver and over the Eastern Plains by mid-morning, making way for mostly sunny skies, forecasters said in a Hazardous Weather Outlook.

A new storm will arrive Wednesday in the mountains, bringing snow and continuing through at least Friday, forecasters said.

That storm will start as rain in Denver on Wednesday night before snow mixes with the rain both Thursday and Friday, according to NWS forecasters.

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At least one dead raccoon from Monte Vista and two raccoon carcasses from Alamosa tested positive for the deadly, contagious disease, the state agency said in a news release.

“In these cases, any other raccoon in the area exhibiting symptoms is presumed to be positive for canine distemper,” District Wildlife Manager Tyler Cerny said in the release. “We are continuing to see more cases.”

Canine distemper is a contagious disease that attacks the respiratory, gastrointestinal and nervous systems of dogs, according to the American Veterinary Medical Association.

All dogs can catch canine distemper, but puppies younger than four months and dogs that have not been vaccinated against the virus are most at risk, according to veterinary officials.

“Canine distemper is a serious disease,” officials wrote on the medical association’s website. “About one in two dogs will die from their infection. Although dogs that survive will have lifelong immunity to canine distemper virus, they usually have permanent, irreparable nervous system damage.”

Canine distemper virus can also infect other mammals, including ferrets, coyotes, foxes, wolves, raccoons and skunks, according to veterinary officials. Cats can get infected but are unlikely to get sick.

The spread of canine distemper is most common through direct contact with infected animals, as the virus does not survive long outside the body, state officials said in the news release.

Symptoms of the virus include:

• Discharge from and crusting around the eyes and nose
• Fever
• Coughing
• Lethargy and reduced appetite
• Vomiting and diarrhea
• Walking in circles or being unable to follow a straight path
• Lack of coordination and muscle twitches
• Convulsions with jaw-chewing movements or “chewing gum fits”
• Seizures
• Partial or complete paralysis
• Hardened nose and footpads

State officials said the symptoms of the disease are not always the same and depend on both the species and how long the animal has been infected.

To avoid canine distemper, state wildlife officials said people should:

• Make sure their pets are up-to-date on vaccinations
• Keep their dogs on a leash when walking
• Not let pets interact with any wildlife
• Not let wildlife frequent their backyard
• Avoid keeping water and food bowls outside to limit possible contamination
• Teach kids not to touch any wildlife

Arapahoe County officials also said in late February that the county was seeing an outbreak of raccoons suffering from canine distemper. It’s not clear how many cases were reported in the area.

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Two other children were also in the back seat of the car but were not injured in the shooting, according to a news release from the Aurora Police Department.

Investigators believe the shooting stemmed from a sales meetup gone wrong, where the 18-year-old suspect took the items without paying and fled, the release stated.

The family was following the suspect, identified by police as Christopher Campos-Anguiano, in their car when his vehicle pulled up next to them and someone opened fire, striking a man, a woman and a 12-year-old girl, police said in the release.

The shooting happened just after 7:20 p.m. Saturday near the intersection of Airport Boulevard and Colfax Avenue.

As of Sunday morning, the woman and girl had been released from the hospital, but the man’s status was unknown, Aurora police spokesperson Matthew Longshore said. Police said he “sustained serious injuries” in the shooting.

Campos-Anguiano was arrested on suspicion of five counts of second-degree attempted murder, according to the news release.

As of Sunday, he had not officially been charged and no court date had been scheduled.

The case remains under investigation as detectives determine whether other people involved in the incident will be arrested, according to the release. It’s unclear how many additional individuals were involved or what their roles were.

Anyone with information about the shooting is asked to contact Metro Denver Crime Stoppers at 720-913-7867.

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Updated 5:16 p.m. April 14, 2025: This article was updated to correct the secondary headline, which misstated the charges the suspect was arrested on. Christopher Campos-Anguiano was arrested on five counts of attempted second-degree murder.

The fire sparked at about 4:29 p.m. Saturday near the Turkey Track shooting range in the Pike-San Isabel National Forest, Douglas County Sheriff’s Office spokesperson Luke Roberts said in a Sunday morning briefing.

As of 6 p.m. Sunday, the fire had burned about 128 acres and was 45% contained, U.S. Forest Service officials said.

The fire was human-caused, but how it started remains under investigation, according to the Forest Service.

Sheriff’s deputies from Douglas and Teller counties, national forest service staff and multiple fire departments, including volunteers, were on scene at the fire just after 6 p.m. Saturday, officials said. The crews were joined by the Colorado Division of Fire Prevention and Control on Sunday.

Hot, dry and windy conditions caused the fire to grow “very aggressively” Saturday evening, Roberts said.

Despite continued dryness and wind throughout the day Sunday, crews were able to keep the fire from spreading more. According to Forest Service officials, the flames didn’t reach a single new acre.

The biggest concern was making sure the fire didn’t cross Colorado 67, Roberts said.

The east side of the highway is home to multiple campgrounds and popular hiking areas, including Rainbow Falls. Preevacuation orders were issued for the area at about 6:25 p.m. Saturday.

“It seems like this fire season is just getting longer and longer,” Roberts said.

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