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.
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Colorado Avalanche Information Center
Overview of a snowboarder triggered avalanche near the west portal of Eisenhower Tunnel, 25 March 2020. (CAIC)
and last updated 2021-05-18 22:46:34-04
DENVER â Summit County prosecutors have agreed to drop the $168,000 in restitution they sought from two backcountry snowboarders who caused an avalanche above the Eisenhower-Johnson Memorial Tunnels last year after the snowboarders reached a plea agreement in the case.
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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.
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Summit County Judge Edward Casias ruled that employees of the Colorado Avalanche Information Center would be required to testify in the trial of Evan Hannibal and Tyler DeWitt next week, dismissing a motion from the Colorado Attorney General’s Office to quash their subpoenas and keep them off the witness stand.
On March 25, DeWitt of Lakewood and Hannibal of Vail were snowboarding above the Loop Road at the Eisenhower/Johnson Memorial Tunnels when they triggered an avalanche. Nobody was injured in the slide, but it covered more than 400 feet of the active roadway below in debris up to 20 feet deep and damaged a remote avalanche-control unit.