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By Logan Smith

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    Colorado (KCNC) — Two Colorado Springs men who held up an armored car employee at an ATM two years ago recently received prison sentences. The judge also ordered them to pay back the more than $180,000 they stole from the bank.

Jahlique Rahmir Dorsey, 25, and Jarrett Lacourtney Grier, 27, were accused of robbing a Brinks U.S. worker who was servicing a Wells Fargo ATM in Aurora on Oct. 2, 2023. The employee had opened the ATM and was removing and refilling money from it when two men approached with guns pointed. They punched the employee in the mouth and took his pistol and a Brinks bag containing $180,241, according to case documents.

The two men were connected to another robbery a week earlier in Colorado Springs. No money was stolen in that incident, however, because the Brinks employee had opened but not yet started servicing that ATM. The men stole a Brinks bag which had no money in it, per court documents. Only rubber bands.

Federal investigators found a light-colored sedan that was abandoned near the Aurora incident, according to case documents. Inside it were two empty Brinks bags; ski masks, gloves and sunglass matching those which witnesses described the robbers wearing; and the two guns taken from the armored car employees in both incidents.

Witnesses to the Aurora robbery also described the robbers pouring bleach on themselves before getting into the sedan and leaving the scene. Not surprisingly, investigators found an empty bleach bottle inside the abandoned car, too.

Later, federal investigators learned the bottle of bleach had been stolen from a nearby Walmart before the Aurora robbery. Dorsey was identified in the store’s surveillance video. The light-colored sedan was seen on cameras in the store’s parking lot.

Other surveillance cameras recorded the light-colored sedan tailing the Brinks truck minutes before the robbery, according case documents.

Then, crime lab analysis of the gloves and sunglasses – along with a vape pen that was also found inside the getaway car – revealed the presence of Grier’s DNA. A warrant for his arrest was issued in November 2023, a month after the Aurora robbery. Dorsey’s warrant was issued a month after Grier’s.

Dorsey was arrested in January 2024, Grier that June.

The two men pleaded guilty earlier this year, Grier to one charge, Dorsey to four. Dorsey was sentenced in June to 141 months (11 years and nine months) in prison. Grier was sentenced last Tuesday to eight years.

“If you rob an armored car or bank,” FBI Denver Special Agent in Charge Mark Michalek stated in a press release announcing Dorsey’s sentence, “expect a fast, coordinated response. We don’t let crimes like that go unanswered.”

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By Tori Apodaca

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    SACRAMENTO, California (KMAX, KOVR) — Sacramento State said it is re-evaluating its post-football game concert plans after the one this weekend got out of hand and was cut short.

Students said that rapper Lil Yachty was performing for less than 10 minutes. The night started with a win for the Hornets football, but things quickly went south.

“Why are we fighting for our lives?” you could hear voices scream in one video. “Back up!”

Cell phone video showed the chaotic crowd at Lil Yachty’s short-lived concert following the Sac State homecoming football game.

“I didn’t trample anybody or anything, but I did see a lot of security get ran over,” said Jose Peda who is a Sac State student that admitted he swarmed the field.

Once the football game ended, cell phone video shows hundreds of people swarming the field and creating a mosh pit in front of the stage.

“A lot of kids got missing, so it was kind of crazy,” said Sac State freshman Anisha LaCount, who was watching from the stands.

Concert-goers said at least two children got lost in this crowd, delaying the start of the concert, and when the concert did start a whole lot happened in the 10 or so minutes of music that some claimed they could not hear clearly through the speakers.

“I heard something about a fight and people were throwing water bottles on the stage or something,” said Sac State student who was at the concert Torrey Pickett.

The university said no one was injured at the concert, but there were medics on-site.

“They actually ended up pushing the barricade and it ended up falling so a lot of people ended up getting crushed,” said Peda.

Sac State President Luke Wood posted a photo with Lil Yachty on Instagram and said the concert ended earlier than planned because of behavior from some non-students in the crowd did not meet their standards of decorum.

“I heard that they paid a lot of money for him to come, but I guess they just couldn’t get it right,” LaCount said.

Sac State would not say how much it spent to get the famous rapper to perform there, but we know that the concert was free for all students.

Although, anyone can buy a ticket to the football game. That is why some students think those fans should not be allowed to stick around for the concerts.

The next post-game performance will be rapper Quavo, who is set to play on Friday, Oct. 24.

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By Nick Lentz

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    Minnesota (WCCO) — Two people are recovering after a gasoline can exploded while they were attempting to start a campfire in Cushing, Minnesota, on Saturday evening, according to the Todd County Sheriff’s Office.

Officials responded to the incident in rural Cushing around 6:26 p.m. Investigators say a 34-year-old was using the gas can to ignite the fire when the container caught fire and exploded, according to the sheriff’s office.

The 34-year-old suffered serious burns and a 65-year-old individual suffered severe burns in the explosion, officials said. Both were taken to the hospital for treatment.

According to the sheriff’s office, the Browerville Fire Department, Long Prairie Ambulance Service, Lakewood Health System Ambulance Service and North Memorial Air Care also responded to the explosion.

Cushing is around 117 miles northwest of Minneapolis.

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By Julia Falcon

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    Texas (KTVT) — A man with special needs was allegedly buried by his parents in their Burleson backyard, police say.

Burleson police said officers responded to a welfare check on Oct. 14 for 26-year-old Jonathan Kinnan, who was identified as having special needs, and lived with his mother and stepfather.

During the welfare check, police said there was information shared that alluded to Kinnan being dead and possibly buried in the backyard of the house.

Both parents, December Marie Mitchell and Jonathan James Mitchell, were arrested and charged with tampering/fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse.

The next day, Burleson police and the Texas Rangers found a shallow grave in the backyard of the home, where officers found Kinnan’s body.

Kinnan’s cause of death is pending.

The parents are each being held on a $250,000 bond.

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By Julia Falcon

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    Texas (KTVT) — A man with special needs was allegedly buried by his parents in their Burleson backyard, police say.

Burleson police said officers responded to a welfare check on Oct. 14 for 26-year-old Jonathan Kinnan, who was identified as having special needs, and lived with his mother and stepfather.

During the welfare check, police said there was information shared that alluded to Kinnan being dead and possibly buried in the backyard of the house.

Both parents, December Marie Mitchell and Jonathan James Mitchell, were arrested and charged with tampering/fabricating physical evidence with intent to impair a human corpse.

The next day, Burleson police and the Texas Rangers found a shallow grave in the backyard of the home, where officers found Kinnan’s body.

Kinnan’s cause of death is pending.

The parents are each being held on a $250,000 bond.

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By S.E. Jenkins

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    DALLAS, Texas (KTVT) — A man has died after a burial vault collapsed on top of him Monday afternoon, Dallas Fire-Rescue said.

Dallas Fire-Rescue crews were called to Restland Funeral Home on Greenville Avenue Monday afternoon where a worker was pinned fom the waist down.

The Urban Search and Rescue team also went to the call as a precaution. The first truck lifted the vault using a combination of spreaders and air bags, Dallas Fire-Rescue said. Spreaders are typically sued to open vehicles in accidents.

The man was taken to a hospital with serious injuries to his lower body, where he later died.

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