Nearly all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the Ouray County Plaindealer published a story about charges being filed over rapes alleged to have occurred at an underage drinking party at the police chief’s house while the chief was asleep, the owner and publisher said Friday.
Mike Wiggins vowed to get to the bottom of it, posting Thursday on X, formerly Twitter: “If you hoped to silence or intimidate us, you failed miserably. We’ll find out who did this. And another press run is imminent.”
The newspaper posted the story on social media and removed its website paywall so people could read about the felony sexual assault charges filed against three men, including a relative of the police chief, for actions that allegedly occurred at a May 2023 party in Ouray where drugs and alcohol were used, according to court records. The suspects were ages 17, 18 and 19 at the time, and the person who reported the rapes was 17, records said.
Hmmmm, I’m sure these things aren’t connected in any way, shape or form /s
this is tooo tasty. did someone not realize what happens when you try and hide ‘stories’. and in Print?!?! wtf??
streeeiisaaand where are you
Fuck the police. That is all
Gosh it sure would be a shame if everyone here commented and liked this post. That would be just awful for the alleged rapist.
Ah oops, oh no… Oh well. Guess I just stumbled over the ole’ type and submit key. Darn.
And my axe
Gee, I wonder who could have possibly done this.
We need more Police in Schools!
/s?
Um do people not realize that news is also in digital format too?
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There’s also radio stations.
Ashton Whittington, Gabriel Trujillo and Nathan Dieffenderffer have been arrested for suspected sexual assault on a warrant from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation.
That last one sounds like the fakest name I’ve ever heard.
I might be misremembering, but from my reading about this yesterday that one is the police chief’s son.
Stepson.
Ain’t nothing but a cover-up, babbayy.
Them Pigs in Colorado going, craaazzah
Let’s Barbara Streisand the fuck out of this!
It’s actually because they were embarrassed about a terrible typo on page 5. You guys always see rhe worst in everybody.
Shout out to Plaindealer. The move to remove the pay wall so EVERYONE can read this story online. That’s a nice “Fuck you” to the thieves. Haha.
So, you print the story on the front page the next day and print double the copies. And keep going.
Make them work for it.
It’s Ouray. Tiny tiny town.
The real issue is there’s a “major” festival there right now so it could be embarrassing on an international scale for the tiny town.
You probably “should” be embarrassed your police chief allows his step son to gang rape a girl in his house and no one is in jail.
It’s not my town, I just know of the ice climbing festival.
The moment I read ‘Mike Wiggins’ I was really hoping that was the police chief.
Stright up read it as Wiggum and had to do a double take.
Huh I thought that thing where some guy drives around town buying up all the newspapers wasn’t real…
