A Sterling man is behind bars today, charged with taking another person's automobile at gunpoint. According to a Colorado State Patrol news release, David Scott Hoppal of Sterling was arrested without incident after a trooper spotted him on I-76 westbound shortly after the theft was reported yesterday afternoon. The stop occurred at Milepost 49 on the Interstate. Police agencies continue to investigate the theft, but believe all the items recovered at the time of the stop, including a 2004 Chevy Tahoe, two flatbed trailers, two ATVs and a generator, were all stolen. Trooper report no injuries to the victim of the theft. Hoppal is in the Logan County jail awaiting formal charges.
Monday, November 2, 2009
Norton to be in Ft. Morgan Today
Jane Norton, who is running for U.S. Senate, will kick off a three-day tour of Eastern Colorado today. According to her office, Norton will meet with the public in Larimer, Weld, Morgan, Logan, Sedgwick, Phillips, Yuma, Kit Carson, Cheyenne, Prowers, Bent, Otero, and Crowley counties. A meet and greet is scheduled in Morgan County between 3 and 4 this afternoon. at the Fort Morgan Public Library. You may remember Norton from her stint as lieutenant governor. She was elected in 2002 on a ticket with former Governor Bill Owens.
Woman Drives In to Greeley Village Inn
Patrons and employees at a Greeley Village Inn got an early Halloween trick Saturday afternoon when a woman trying to park her car ran into the building. The woman, who was not cited by police in the incident, was trying to park her car in the handicapped parking space. Sgt. Susie West of he Greeley police said, the woman just hit the wrong pedal as she was trying to park. A building inspector confirmed the building was structurally fine, but the restaurant did close off the damaged portion. No one was sitting in the two booths that were impacted.
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