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The men who started a March 2020 avalanche above Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnels pleaded guilty Monday to misdemeanor charges of reckless endangerment. “It would have been ridiculous to pass up 20 hours of community service and gamble with a financial loss for the rest of our lives. So it’s sad to bend over and get strong-armed by the DA, but that’s what we had to do,” one of the men said after the sentencing.
Former Lake County Coroner Shannon Lee Kent and his wife, Staci Dawn Kent, of Leadville, pleaded not guilty during a hearing at the Summit County Justice Center on Monday, May 17, to charges related to alleged tampering with a deceased human body.
The Kents, both 45 years old, were arrested in February after officers with the Silverthorne Police Department discovered a badly decaying body that had been left in their Silverthorne funeral home for several months. The deceased was later identified by the Summit County Coroner’s Office as 42-year-old Victor Akubuo, who died in a car crash in Park County on July 30, 2020.
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A Summit County judge sentenced Joshua Ramras to four years of probation during a hearing at the Summit County Justice Center on Thursday, April 22. Ramras pleaded guilty to a felony assault charge after a fight with his roommate in 2019.
On Oct. 1 of that year, Frisco Police Department officers arrested Ramras after a fight left his roommate with knife wounds to the face and hand.
The confrontation began with a disagreement about the roommates’ living situation while the two were out to dinner, according to court documents. They returned home separately where the confrontation turned violent, and Ramras cut his roommate with a knife during the fight.