Evans police arrested a 35-year-old man on charges of stalking/harassment, criminal mischief and unlawful sexual contact.
Hector Balderrama was arrested Tuesday and is being held in Weld County Jail on $25,000 bond. Balderrama’s first court date is set for 1:30 p.m. April 14 in Weld District Court.
According to the Evans Police Department, a resident at Eastwood Village, 200 37th St., contacted police in December when the resident noticed an unknown male looking through the window of the resident’s home.
The tenant told police this was not the first time the man had been observed looking into the home.
The tenant also located recently drilled holes into the bedroom of the home.
Over the past three months, Evans police have used surveillance video, physical and DNA evidence and contact with other tenants to lead them to Balderrama.
Evans police are asking anyone with additional information contact the department at (970) 339-2441.

Joaquin Zihuatanejo is the keynote speaker at Thursday’s Latino Youth Leadership Conference at the University of Northern Colorado.

He will speak at 1 p.m. near the fireside lounge in University Center, at the intersection of 11th Avenue and 20th Street. Zihuatanejo is a slam poet whose social justice-themed work speaks to his experience as a teacher and also examines his cultural experiences.

The eighth annual leadership conference will include 300 Latino eighth-grade students from Greeley middle schools. The participants get to interact with and learn from university role models as well as other students from around Weld County.

This year’s theme is “La Educacion es La Preparacion A La Vida Completa” which translates in English to ” Education is Preparation to a Competent Life”. The conference was created in Greeley by the Cesar Chvez Cultural Center and the Upsilon Beta chapter of Sigma Lambda Beta International Fraternity, Inc. at UNC.

Zihuatanejo will also prese

CAMERON PASS – The wind gusting to 30-35 mph blew in a bank of clouds from the west that had a promise of more snow for the northern Colorado mountains.

But it’s going to have to snow a lot before spring establishes itself and the minimal amount of snow already on the ground starts melting.

“It’s sure not great,” Todd Boldt said. “What little or new snow that’s come (in the past month) either hasn’t been much or it’s already melted out.”

Boldt, along with John Fusaro, conservationists with the Fort Collins office of the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, conducted the April water content of the snowpack in the Poudre Canyon Wednesday, after doing the same thing in the Big Thompson Canyon the day before.

Neither canyon had much hope for even a long-term average snowpack. At the 10,276-foot summit at Cameron Pass, the content was 65 percent of the 30-year average and 61 per

Students just do not get off of school that easily.

In response to the recent snow day on March 24, District 6 plans to extend its school days by 10 minutes beginning April 12 and continuing to the last day of school, May 20. In a release, Superintendent Ranelle Lang said that the district chose to lengthen its school days since conflicts with graduation ceremonies – namely Greeley Central High School’s ceremony – prevented the district from adding a day to the end of the year.

This is the second time District 6 has had to alter its schedule this year. The district held school on Feb. 5 – originally a teacher training day – due to a snow day in October.

With the new schedule, high school students will be released at 3:10 p.m.; middle school students at 4:10 p.m.; and elementary school students at 3:40 p.m. Tuesdays through Fridays. On Mondays, elementary students will be released at 2:10 p.m.

A rural Fort Lupton woman was apparently the victim of an accidental shooting into her leg, and her husband was arrested because he shouldn’t have had a weapon.

Weld County sheriff’s deputies learned of the shooting late Tuesday night, when Richelle Breedlove, 21, arrived at Platte Valley Medical Center in Brighton with a gunshot wound to her left leg.

Deputy Shane Scofield said in a press release that Breedlove was at the family home north of Fort Lupton when her husband, Christopher Buschman, 21, was attempting to unload his grandfather’s .22-caliber pistol when it accidentally fired, hitting her in the leg.

Although Buschman was not charged in the shooting, he was arrested on one count of “possession of a weapon by a previous offender,” which is a felony. That means Buschman has a criminal record and was not supposed to have any weapons.