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DENVER — The ongoing legal battle over the extradition request of Homaidan al-Turki, a Saudi inmate imprisoned for keeping a maid as a sex slave, is, for now, in the hands of an Arapahoe County district court judge. But documents released in court last week and conversations with attorneys and law enforcement sources reveal the […]

ARAPAHOE COUNTY, Colo. — A Colorado judge could make a decision on whether to release convicted sex offender Homaidan al-Turki from prison and send him back to Saudi Arabia. Al-Turki is serving time for keeping a housekeeper as a sex slave for four years, and has also been loosely linked to the murder of former Colorado […]

DENVER — A courtroom battle over freeing a convicted Saudi sex offender revealed new information about the murder of Colorado’s corrections chief. A judge is now deciding whether to free Homaidan Al Turki from prison in Colorado and send him back to Saudi Arabia. Friday prosecutors confirmed investigators are still looking at possible ties to […]

CENTENNIAL, Colo.— Saudi Arabia is seeking the return of one of its citizens serving a prison sentence in Colorado for treating his housekeeper as a slave. A hearing was set for Thursday to determine whether Homaidan al-Turki will be handed over to Saudi Arabian officials, the Denver Post reported. The Saudi embassy wants al-Turki to […]

1. Official: Avs goalie’s arrest a conspiracy to weaken Russia Olympic team A day after Avalanche goalie turned himself over to authorities on domestic violence charges, a Russia Olympic official claims the arrest was “not normal at all,” and made in an effort to weaken his country’s national hockey team. 2. Judge could grant transfer request to affluent […]

DENVER — A Saudi man being investigated for the murder of former Colorado Corrections chief Tom Clements lost his latest bid for parole on Tuesday morning. Homaidan al-Turki, serving an eight-years-to-life term for keeping his housekeeper a virtual slave in Colorado and sexually assaulting her, now must wait another two years before his next appearance […]

DECATUR, Tex. — Sources tell FOX31 Denver that government officials continue to look into a possible connection between the arrest of Saudi national Homaidan Al-Turki as a  motive in the murder of Department of Corrections Executive Director Tom Clements. However, investigators admit they are beginning to “deprioritize” the theory. Homaidan Al-Turki was convicted in 2006 […]

DENVER — Investigators looking into the shooting death of the director of the Colorado Department of Corrections will look at the possibility that Tom Clements’ murder may be tied to the recent decision not to grant a transfer of a Saudi man in a Colorado prison. Homaidan Al-Turki was convicted in 2006 of unlawful sexual […]

MONUMENT, Colo. — The Executive Director of the Colorado Department of Corrections, Tom Clements, was shot in the chest in his Monument home Tuesday night and now authorities are looking for a car that was spotted near the scene. Clements was shot when he answered the door at his home on Colonial Park Drive in […]

DENVER — Denver Police have confirmed the man killed following a chase and shootout with deputies in Texas yesterday is also a suspect in the murder of a Denver pizza delivery driver. However, officials from the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, who spoke at a press conference near Dallas on Friday, said the suspect has […]

DENVER — Evidence collected after a wild high-speed chase and deadly shootout with Texas sheriff’s deputies collected from a parolee with ties to a white supremacist prison gang appear to tie him to the shooting deaths of Colorado’s prisons chief, according to a search warrant obtained by FOX31 Denver. The warrant, along with an affidavit […]