A jury trial that wrapped on Monday completed seven years of litigation between Vail Health and Lindsay Winninger, a physical therapist who got her start in Vail before going on to treat internationally known sports.
Tye Stockton returned to the Eagle County Justice Center on Tuesday for a brief court appearance on an accusation of stalking, a domestic violence charge that the Vail real estate giant received in December. Stockton.
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In the second day of the trial of Curtis Shewfelt, a Craig man accused of transporting drugs to an alleged Eagle County dealer, the defense worked to block the prosecution from utilizing a central element of their case: a series of text messages between Shewfelt and the dealer.
Shewfelt currently faces charges of conspiracy to distribute a controlled substance and possession with intent to distribute, both class 3 drug felonies, in a long and bumpy case that all began July 13, 2017.
In the early morning hours of July 13, Shewfelt rode in the passenger seat of his black Chevy pickup truck as his friend, Holiday Sanchez, was tailed by police for allegedly swerving on Interstate 70 near Vail. Sanchez did not pull over, but rather sped up and tried to evade police before crashing in the Avon Road roundabout in Avon, according to police reports and testimony given Tuesday.