DENVER A man authorities believe is an accessory in three homicides being investigated in the San Luis Valley is being kept in federal custody in Denver for the foreseeable future.
Francisco Ramirez did not seek to be released on bond during a hearing Tuesday in Denver at the U.S. District Court for Colorado.
Ramirez, 38, has not been charged with murder or as an accessory. The investigation by local and state authorities is ongoing.
The affidavit was for a warrant to arrest Ramirez for a federal gun crime in Pueblo: having a gun in in furtherance of drug trafficking.
That charge stemmed from a search of a truck he was in on Dec. 11 in Pueblo after investigators learned he was in the city. The affidavit states Pueblo police, agents of the ATF and Colorado Bureau of Investigation found a handgun and two loaded magazines, plus suspected heroin and methamphetamine with a street value of $49,000.
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DENVER Authorities say a convict arrested in Pueblo is believed to be an accessory to the murder of victims whose mutilated bodies were found on land he rents near Sanford in the San Luis Valley.
The Pueblo Chieftain obtained an arrest affidavit that states an informant told investigators that convict Francisco Ramirez helped conceal the bodies.