Eagle County residents are invited to join local law enforcement for a night of free food, demonstrations and activities at the 38th annual National Night Out on Tuesday, Aug. 3.
The Eagle County Sheriff’s Office and officers from the Vail, Eagle, Avon and Basalt police departments will host various National Night Out celebrations across the valley that evening.
National Night Out is an annual event that has been held to celebrate “safety, community, and neighborhood comradery” since 1984 in communities across the United States, according to the release. The night is designed to promote crime and drug prevention awareness, bringing together law enforcement and their communities to celebrate “a partnership against crime.“
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National Night Out is an annual event, held on the first Tuesday in August, to celebrate community, safety and service. Across the nation, neighbors gather to enjoy an evening of good food, music, games, safety demonstrations, visits from various first responder organizations and simply great conversation with friends, old and new.
For 37 years, law enforcement agencies have come together to create an evening under the stars that is filled with fun and games for the entire family. After a challenging year of limited social contact, this is an opportunity to reach out to those who, through it all, continued to serve and protect and did so with pride and a genuine desire to help their friends and neighbors. The uniform they wear represents the value they place upon creating a more caring place to live.
Arrest warrants were issued Tuesday for a Lakewood man accused of multiple vehicular thefts after he failed to appear for an Eagle County court appearance.
Ulices Venzor, 28, was scheduled to appear in court Tuesday afternoon on his most recent charges of vehicular theft, driving under the influence, failure to report an accident and reckless driving after he crashed a stolen car on Vail Pass last month.
Judge Rachel Olguin-Fresquez waited with attorneys Tuesday afternoon but Venzor did not show and they said it was not the first time that he has skipped out on a court appearance.
Olguin-Fresquez issued warrants for his arrest and acknowledged the possibility that, given Venzor’s criminal history, he could have been picked up on a warrant in another county, causing him to miss the court date.
passed last summer as an unfunded mandate, with the exception of $617,478 in highway users tax fund dollars given to the Colorado State Patrol.
The bill sets a deadline of July 1, 2023, for compliance and outlines penalties for agencies and officers who fail to use body cameras after this date.
“We don’t have a choice about doing this,” van Beek told Eagle County Commissioners during a presentation at their June meeting. “We have to go forward with this, and we will do everything we possibly can to control the costs.”
The body camera program is expected to cost about $600,000 over the next five years, a number which does not include the personnel costs associated with managing and reviewing the footage, van Beek said.