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The Da.ty Sentinel Wednesday, Juy 7, 1999 3A Around the Region 15FOIXOWINQ1PEOP ADfACTlVEiWARRANT ran Missing mans pickup found Lack of evidence creates more questions police say By AARON PORTE? The Daily Sentinel NUCLA Dale Williams was driving a white Ford pickup when he vanished five weeks ago, leaving a baffled community in his wake. The pickup was found Sunday under more than 10 feet of water at the confluence of the San Miguel and Dolores rivers, but Williams, 42, is still missing and the discovery generates more questions than answers, say local authorities. Yes, it is suspicious, but no, there's no specific evidence to indicate foul play, Montrose County Undershenff Dick Deines said. A group of children found the pickup while swimming in the confluence just west of Uravan at 4:30 p.m. on Sunday, Nucla Marshal the angle it was put into the water, it was deliberate.

Deines said. There were no footprints at the scene, and a search of the river banks yielded no signs of Williams. Gudermuth said. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation will comb the pickup for clues this week in Montrose, he said. Williams was last seen at the Family Market grocery store in Na-turita on May 27, prior to making a service call on a remote road near Bedrock.

The lifelong Nucla resident uncharacteristically left his family and several business ventures, leading to fears of foul play. Gudermuth was unwilling to discuss the details of his investigation. This is being investigated as a crime and we have not ruled out foul play, Deines said. Protesters of Vail expansion arrested; 1 arraigned in GJ Matthew Gudermuth said. Buried to the hood in mud, the pickup had likely been there since Williams suspicious disappearance on May 27, Deines said.

The area was combed by plane during the intensive search last month, but rivers swollen by spring runoff likely hid the pickup from view, Gudermuth said. Investigators found no evidence of foul play when divers from the Montrose County Sheriff's Department helped pull it from the river on Ingel was arrested Thursday for chaining himself by the neck to the driveshaft of a truck. Ingel faces a maximum of six months in jail, $5,000 in fines, or both or five years of probation for interfering with the use of a public road. Two of the protesters on Mill Creek Road in Vail Village had chained themselves to a cherry-picker brought in to retrieve a protester sitting in a tall tripod. The newspaper reporter from the Colorado Daily and two others refused to move about 175 feet beyond the closed area, Young said.

When the protests began July 1, the Forest Service gave the protesters five days to find a visible protest spot that would not block the road, Young said. There were 25 Eagle County Sheriffs Department deputies assisting with the arrests Tuesday, Young said. Opponents of the 885-acre expansion vowed to stay put. Im fully in support of what they are doing," said Jonathan Staufer, a lifelong Vail resident and member of a coalition of environmental groups opposing the expansion. Staufer also serves as chairman of the Ski Area Citizens Coalition.

The first blockade, including the protesters chained to equipment, Let Rob come to your house to work up an estimate. He will go from room to room, removing grilles and shining his flashlight into the openings to check for problems. He has found thick gobs of dust clinging to the sheet-metal walls which become a breeding ground for allergy-inducing molds, mites and bacteria. By C. PATRICK CLEARY The Daily Sentinel The first defendant in what could become a succession of wildlife activists accused of blockading the Vail Ski Area expansion was arraigned in Grand Junction Tuesday.

1 Even as Mark Ingel, 27, San Diego, was arraigned in federal court Tuesday, at least five other protesters had been arrested Tuesday morning for blocking equipment from accessing Vails expansion. The six people arrested, including one newspaper reporter, were transferred to Denver for arraignment. But all the trials would be held in Grand Junction, U.S. Attorney Craig Wallace said after Ingels arraignment. Authorities were working late Tuesday afternoon to extricate an additional protester from a Forest Service road near Vail Pass, Lynn Young of the Forest Service said.

Protesters at that site had dug a hole in White River National Forest Road 728 and filled it with wet concrete and steel. A car was overturned, and a protester stuck his hands through a hole in the roof and stuck his hands in the wet cement. Authorities late Tuesday were jackhammering the concrete to remove the protester, Young said. 970 241 0445 UEATENG COOLING SERVICES, IC. FURNACE DUCT DECONTAMINATION CLEANING COOLER START-UP, SERVICE, REPAIR INSTALLATION Data of Birth 122962 21872 91858 21 866 71 872 72871 10967 11754 91979 10844 92269 91077 7463 10377 92180 83171 5381 11457' 62460 121560 12265 314471 1 12778 1 03057 717571 2280 GET YOUR DUCKS IN A ROW AND CALL US TODAY! Participation Includes: 18 holes at Adobe Creek with golf cart Catered lunch after play Ditty bags for eieryone Hin prizes via drawings Prizes (b drawing) Coif liel.m.n for 4 il Casa Blanca Resort.

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Tire tracks leading into the river indicate the pickup slowly rolled down the bank without braking, he said. We are of the opinion that, from was established July 1, a day after the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals refused to speed up a ruling on a lawsuit seeking to stop the expansion. The second blockade, including a person chained to an upside-down car, was established early Tuesday. The protests and the lawsuit by the Colorado Environmental Coalition are the latest rounds in a long fight over Vail Associates growth plans. Environmentalists claim that clearing the land and building roads and bridges will destroy valuable wildlife habitat.

An environmental group called Earth Liberation Front claimed responsibility by e-mail for the $12 million fire that destroyed a lodge and the ski-patrol headquarters and damaged chair lifts at Vail in October. William Slattery, a San Luis resident who said he prefers to be called Asparagus, offered support for Ingel at Ingels arraignment. Slattery said the coalition of groups did not condone the burning of the buildings at Vail but vow to continue the nonviolent forms of protest. These peaceful protests are a last-ditch stand against absolute corruption by Vail and the Forest Service, Slattery said. 66-year-old woman raped at Delta home By AARON PORTER The Daily Sentinel DELTA An elderly woman who was sexually assaulted at a local senior citizen complex on Sunday is the first rape victim in that age group in years, Delta Police Detective John Gore said.

This ones the first Ive seen in a long time, Gore said. Due to the sensitive nature of the incident, Gore- declined to release many details of the investigation, including the suspects name. The womans identity was withheld to protect her privacy. The 66-year-old Delta woman was jolted awake when the suspect broke into her home at 511 E. 10th Gore said.

The suspect then raped her, he said. Gore said he believes that the suspects sole reason for entering the home was to assault the woman. The belongings in her home were untouched, Gore said. The woman reported the incident at 8 a.m. on Sunday.

Police gathered numerous pieces of clothing, and household items which may qjntain evidence, according to a police report. Assaults against the elderly are quite uncommon in the Delta area, Gore said. While some seniors are occasionally victimized by fraud, they are almost never physically or sexually assaulted, he said. Cash 5 Tuesday: 1, 9, 18, 20 and 27 The Daily Sentinel is printed in large part on recycled paper and is recyclable. For recycling 1 information, please call our Circulation Department.

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When an eastbound vehicle slowed to turn into a parking area 26 miles west of Gunnison at 1 p.m., another vehicle slammed into it from behind, the Colorado State Patrol reported. Pushed into the oncoming lane, the first vehicle struck the left rear of a third vehicle, then collided head-on with a fourth vehicle. The passenger of the vehicle that slowed to turn in the parking lot, Chowlung Ting, 27, was airlifted to St. Marys with head and internal injuries. The vehicles driver, Yuju Liu, 26, and the occupants of the other three vehicles sustained minor injuries in the accident.

Cops seek motorcyclist who fled Mesa County sheriffs deputies are still looking for a man who fled on a dirt bike when deputies tried to pull him over for riding the bike on the streets. According to sheriffs department reports, deputies spotted two men riding dirt bikes that were not legal for street use near and 32 roads. Both men allegedly tried to elude officers, but deputies stopped Earnest Rowland, 34, of 432 Road 30M. Rowland was held on charges of vehicular eluding, driving on a license restrained for drunken driving, being a habitual traffic offender, reckless driving and no proof of insurance. Man accused of criminal mischief Grand Junction police arrested Michael Keller, 33, of 480 Road 284 Apt.

23, on suspicion of damaging the door and walls of an apartment in the 100 block of Colorado Avenue Sunday night. According to police reports, officers could hear Keller demanding to be let into the apartment about half a block away. Keller was held in the Mesa County Jail on charges of criminal mischief. Cops investigating vehicle break-ins The Grand Junction Police Department is investigating the following vehicle break-ins that occurred Sunday: A purse, money and lawn chairs were reported stolen from a car parked at Seventh Street and Walnut Avenue. Police estimate the items were worth $85.

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