A Larimer County District Court judge sentenced a Denver man who was charged with child sex trafficking to 22 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections this week.

Mohamed Soliman’s defense team has argued that the testimony of his ex-wife and children would be key to the case should federal prosecutors pursue the death penalty.

Colorado officials have identified the family killed in a suspected murder-suicide in Thornton last week.

A mother and her daughter reported being chased by an aggressive cow elk after they walked past her newborn calf Wednesday morning near Alberta Falls in Rocky Mountain National Park, according to RMNP officials.

Christian Castro was charged with assault and falsely reporting a crime.

The former public defender, Thomas Cushing, will also serve 20 years to life on parole for the felony.

The unilateral shift raised alarm among the city’s police oversight groups. Julia Richman, a member of Denver’s Citizen Oversight Board, called the directive “disheartening.”