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Bear cub rescued by Colorado wildlife officers near Evergreen
A bear cub stuck in wire fencing near Evergreen was rescued by Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers Saturday and reunited with its mother.
The black bear cub became stuck in wire fencing and while its mom was in a nearby tree, she was unable to rescue the cub, Colorado Parks and Wildlife officials said in a post on X.
Kids can get into everything, even bear cubs. Wildlife officers responded to a cub stuck in some gnarly wire fencing in Evergreen on Saturday. The sow is nearby, but she’s not able to help free her cub. That’s where we step in to lend a hand. pic.twitter.com/cWWybERfeS
— CPW NE Region (@CPW_NE) June 2, 2024
Officers sedated the sow with a tranquilizer so she wouldn’t interfere with their rescue efforts and restrained the cub with a catch pole while they cut it free of the wire fencing.
In a video posted by the agency, officers are seen restraining the snarling cub and cutting through the fence in less than a minute before freeing the bear cub.
Officers then hazed the sow and her cub with K9 officer Samson to make sure they wouldn’t return and get stuck in the fence again. A video shows Samson barking at the bears as they retreat into the forest.
The encounter was “a complicated rescue with a happy ending,” CPW officials said in a post on X.
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Colorado elections clerk set to be released from prison Monday based on her sentence commutation
DENVER, Colo. (AP) — Former Colorado elections clerk and conspiracy theorist Tina Peters is scheduled to be released from prison Monday after serving less than a quarter of a nine-year sentence for her role in a scheme to copy her county’s election system.
Gov. Jared Polis, a Democrat, commuted Peters’ sentence last month following pressure from President Donald Trump.
The Colorado Department of Corrections would not confirm the time of Peters’ release, and a representative for her attorney said Peters would not speak to the media when she is freed.
Peters was the first local election official to be charged with breaching security after the 2020 election. She snuck in an outside computer expert affiliated with My Pillow Chief Executive Mike Lindell — who himself denied that Trump lost the White House in 2020 — and the person copied the county’s Dominion Voting Systems computer server as it was updated in 2021.
Peters then joined Lindell onstage at a “cybersymposium” that promised to reveal proof that the election was rigged. Video and photos of the computer system upgrade, including passwords, were posted online. The move stoked false claims that voting machines were manipulated to steal the election from Trump.
Peters was convicted in 2024 of attempting to influence a public servant, conspiracy to commit criminal impersonation, violation of duty and other crimes by jurors in Mesa County, a Republican stronghold that supported Trump. An appeals court upheld her conviction in April, but ordered Peters to be resentenced because it said the judge who sent her to prison wrongly punished her for speaking out about election fraud.
Trump had championed Peters’ case, but because the 70-year-old was convicted under state law, he did not have the power to pardon her. Instead, the president pressured Polis to do so, lambasting him on social media and disinviting him to a White House meeting with other governors. The Trump administration also announced plans to dismantle the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado and relocated the U.S. Space Command to Alabama.
Polis commuted Peters’ sentence on May 15. In a letter, he wrote that although Peters was convicted of serious crimes and deserved to spend time in prison, the sentence was “extremely unusual and lengthy” for a first-time non-violent offender.
Colorado Secretary of State Jena Griswold, a Democrat, called the move a “dark day for democracy” and said it amounted to ”selling out our state’s justice system for Trump.”
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