A Colorado town's newspapers were stolen after a story about rape charges at the police chief's house
Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was asleep, the owner and publisher said Friday.
Mike Wiggins vowed to get to the bottom of it, posting Thursday on X, formerly Twitter: “If you hoped to silence or intimidate us, you failed miserably. We’ll find out who did this. And another press run is imminent.”
The newspaper posted the story on social media and removed its website paywall so people could read about the felony sexual assault charges filed against three men, including a relative of the police chief, for actions that allegedly occurred at a May 2023 party in Ouray where drugs and alcohol were used, according to court records. The suspects were ages 17, 18 and 19 at the time, and the person who reported the rapes was 17, records said.
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this is tooo tasty. did someone not realize what happens when you try and hide 'stories'. and in Print?!?! wtf??
streeeiisaaand where are you
Gosh it sure would be a shame if everyone here commented and liked this post. That would be just awful for the alleged rapist.
Ah oops, oh no... Oh well. Guess I just stumbled over the ole' type and submit key. Darn.
And my axe
Shout out to Plaindealer. The move to remove the pay wall so EVERYONE can read this story online. That's a nice "Fuck you" to the thieves. Haha.
So the victim woke up, couldn't find her clothes and left with police chiefs sweatshirt in mid May. Goes to hospital and they call Sheriff obviously, but he can't investigate because he hired the police chief and was former chief and his investigator also had worked for the police chief. So obviously they have to involve CBI (state investigator)
May gang rape... Then "CBI agents interviewed suspects in July"... Then.. "July 20, agents used a search warrant to seize evidence from the police chief’s house"... To "were all arrested on warrants for suspected felony sexual assault in December. All have posted bail and been released from jail"
Oh and the police chief knew for month about the investigation. CBI took two months to even question suspects or collect evidence... Another five months to charge anyone.
They left freaking bite marks on the girl.
They stole print newspapers to hide a story? Were the perpetrators spotted wearing onions on their belts and chanting 23 skidoo?
No they found the guy who stole the newspapers
I'm not a Sherlock, but if you read those two together, sounds like the victim's (who was never named) relative (father?) stole the newspapers?
Otherwise they wouldn't have the sentence about not disclosing
There's other reasons they may not disclose it. If they're a minor they probably wouldn't, for example. The minor in this case was only disclosed because the severity of the crime. They could also just not want to disclose it because they just don't want to or just haven't gotten to it yet.
It was the style at the time!
That last one sounds like the fakest name I’ve ever heard.
I might be misremembering, but from my reading about this yesterday that one is the police chief's son.
Stepson.
Let's Barbara Streisand the fuck out of this!
Fuck the police. That is all
The moment I read 'Mike Wiggins' I was really hoping that was the police chief.
Stright up read it as Wiggum and had to do a double take.
Well, I feel safe knowing that the police are as wise as a child trying to hide their report card from their parents. Our public safety is in good hands!
You should hear about the old lady who ran a local newspaper that published something the police chief didn't like so he had a raid done on the business and stole all of the computers, I think it was
They also raided her home and she wound up dying the following day.
Jesus fucking christ, I missed that part.
Classy America lol
Rapist cops? I don't know. TV tells me all cops are my friends and superheroes who scowl at bad guys
Gee, I wonder who could have possibly done this.
i can't believe cops would do this /s
So, you print the story on the front page the next day and print double the copies. And keep going.
Make them work for it.
It’s Ouray. Tiny tiny town.
The real issue is there’s a “major” festival there right now so it could be embarrassing on an international scale for the tiny town.
https://ourayicepark.com/ouray-ice-festival
You probably "should" be embarrassed your police chief allows his step son to gang rape a girl in his house and no one is in jail.
It’s not my town, I just know of the ice climbing festival.
Need more people like this couple.
👮 NOTHIN TO SEE HERE
That’s really weird. Why bother returning them? That doesn’t fix things, because the nature of news means they’re not just going to refill the newsstands with day old papers, they’re selling the next edition. Leaving thousands of papers on their doorstep just gives them a new problem.
The thief isn’t just a coward, but also an idiot.
It's a weekly paper, so it's on sale for an entire week.
@MicroWave streisand effect save me
Um do people not realize that news is also in digital format too?
There's also radio stations.
This seems like it was a display. Turned from a local scandal into a national one.
Hmmmm, I'm sure these things aren't connected in any way, shape or form /s
It's actually because they were embarrassed about a terrible typo on page 5. You guys always see rhe worst in everybody.
Nothing dodgy about that.
Ain't nothing but a cover-up, babbayy.
Them Pigs in Colorado going, craaazzah
Huh I thought that thing where some guy drives around town buying up all the newspapers wasn't real..
We need more Police in Schools!
/s?