CAÑON CITY A Colorado Springs man accused of poaching in Fremont, Chaffee and Teller Counties faced punishment in court and a lifetime suspension of his hunting privileges.
Iniki Vike Kapu, 28, was sentenced to probation, six months jail and a $4,600 fine for illegal possession of a bighorn sheep during a sentencing hearing in Fremont County District Court last year. He also has been accused by Colorado Parks and Wildlife staff of illegally killing 12 deer and two turkeys in earlier cases in Teller and Chaffee Counties after an investigation was sparked by a citizen tip in October 2018.
Kapu’s serial poaching behavior last week resulted in his hunting privileges being permanently suspended. Because Colorado is a member of the Interstate Wildlife Violator Compact, the ban extends to 47 other states, according to a press release from Bill Vogrin, public information officer for Colorado Parks and Wildlife.
The 10th day of the first-degree murder trial for Donthe Lucas featured testimony from a former neighbor of the Lucas family, a former FBI agent and a soil expert.
Schelling reportedly drove to Pueblo from her home in Denver on Feb. 4, 2013, to meet with Lucas, who was her boyfriend at the time and the purported father of her unborn child.
Before the neighbor Mercedes Woods testified, 10th Judicial District Court Judge Thomas Flesher told the jury that the prosecution asserts the evidence (provided by Woods) goes to the defendant’s state of mind and told the jury they may not consider the testimony for any other purpose. He said it is up to the jury to give what weight, if any, it wishes to give to the testimony.
Experts on landfills and crime scene investigations took the stand Monday on the ninth day of the Donthe Lucas homicide trial in the murder of Kelsie Schelling.
A Feb. 12, 2013, interview conducted by then-Pueblo Police Det. Neal Robinson with present-day murder trial defendant Donthe Lucas was presented during the first half of Thursday s court proceedings.
The interview was conducted at the request of the Denver Police Department, which was searching for 21-year-old Kelsie Schelling. Her friends and family informed law enforcement at the time Schelling was living on her own in a Denver penthouse her father owned, and was pregnant.
The 2013 interviews contain Lucas allegations of Schelling s visit to Pueblo
Although portions of the video s sounds were muffled or at times difficult to discern to the courtroom audience, an almost 30-minute interview was shown from a Feb. 12, 2013 interview, which consisted of Lucas testimony of Schelling s alleged pregnancy, relationship to him and what they did together during her visit to Pueblo.
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