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DENVER — A woman from Commerce City has been arrested after authorities accused her of providing the gun that was used to kill Colorado Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements. The Colorado Bureau of Investigations announced Wednesday night that Stevie Vigil, 22, was in custody. The CBI says she sold the gun to murder suspect […]

DENVER — Since Tuesday, investigators looking into Colorado prisons chief Tom Clements’ murder have told reporters they are considering numerous angles. One is that Ebel, a former member of the 211s — a white-supremacist prison gang — might have conspired with other inmates to kill Clements, Paula Presley of the El Paso County, Colorado, sheriff’s […]

Since his death following a wild chase and shootout with police in Decatur, Texas Evan Ebel’s friends, including one former inmate, have discussed the struggles the 28-year-old faced after leaving prison in January. Ebel is suspected of killing Colorado Departement of Corrections Director Tom Clements and Denver pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon in a crime […]

DENVER — Police say they found bomb-making materials, apparent instructions on how to make bombs, bloody clothes and paperwork from the Department of Corrections when they searched Evan Ebel’s Cadillac. He’s the man who is suspected of killing Colorado Department of Corrections Director Tom Clements and Domino’s Pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon two days before […]

DENVER — The Colorado Department of Corrections will implement new measures designed to capture former prisoners who break their parole, the agency announced Wednesday. The new measures include monthly roundups of fugitives who break parole and a new rule requiring a two-hour response time for investigating all ankle bracelet tampering alerts. The Capitol’s Joint Budget […]

DENVER –Sources say the man suspected of killing Colorado Dept. of Corrections Director Tom Clements and Denver pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon may have had more targets. They tell FOX31 Denver that they found a hit list among all of the other items in Evan Ebel’s vehicle. He died a week ago in a wild […]

DENVER — Thomas Guolee, a suspected member of the white supremacist 211 Crew and an associate of murder suspect Evan Ebel, has been arrested, the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office said Thursday evening. Police have been seeking Guolee, 31, since last week. He and another man, James Lohr, were wanted for questioning in connection with […]

(KDVR) — After a high speed chase and shoot-out with police ended with Evan Ebel’s death in Texas, documents reveal investigators discovered key pieces of evidence inside his car. Detectives found bomb-making materials and instructions, as well as surveillance equipment, and many handwritten documents — including what sources are calling a hit list. The list […]

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — A public service memorializing slain corrections head Tom Clements is set for this morning in Colorado Springs. The event is expected to attract hundreds of officials and state workers, including Gov. John Hickenlooper.  Clements, broadly considered a reformer within Colorado’s prison system, was killed Tuesday night when an assailant shot him […]

LAFAYETTE, Colo. — A memorial service was held Wednesday for Nathan Leon, the pizza delivery driver who was shot and killed while working on Sunday, March 17. The 27-year-old from Commerce City was married and had three children. He will be remembered by friends and family at Flatirons Church in Lafayette at 11 a.m. Leon’s […]

DENVER — Authorities knew the ankle bracelet on parole Evan Ebel was tampered with  days before he allegedly killed pizza delivery driver Nathan Leon and state prisons chief Tom Clements, new documents show. Ebel was released from prison on January 28, 2013 and was supposed to wear an ankle monitor. According to state documents, Ebel […]

BOULDER — After Colorado prison records proved Evan Ebel tampered with his ankle monitoring bracelet, the company who made the device is offering a behind the scenes look at the technology used on inmates across the country. The records show that a Boulder-based monitoring company contacted the Colorado Department of Corrections to inform them Ebel had tampered […]