About 250 copies of the Ouray County Plaindealer, a small-town Colorado newspaper in the United States, were stolen from shelves the same day the paper reported a story about rape allegations allegedly made at an underage party at the police chief’s home, it said. editor on Friday, according to NBC News.
According to NBC, the newspaper posted the story of the stolen newspapers on social media and removed a barrier to access the site so people could read about the sexual assault allegations against three men, who were between 17 and 19 years old at the time. including a member of the police chief’s family, for actions that allegedly occurred at a May 2023 party in Ur where drugs and alcohol were consumed.
“If they hoped to silence or intimidate us, they failed. Let’s find out who did this,” Mike Wiggins said in a message posted on social network X on Thursday.
Also on Thursday night, a citizen returned a trash bag full of newspapers to the Plaindealer and donated almost €2,000, which the newspaper editor found “extremely encouraging and humiliating,” but he also believes the newspaper man who returned was the same person who stole them .
Mike Wiggins did not identify the man but reported the situation to authorities. Police, who had CCTV footage, were able to identify the robbery suspect.
“The suspect is not a member or family member of local law enforcement and is not related to those charged in the recent sexual assault report,” the Ouray County Sheriff’s Office said in a statement, adding that the Colorado Bureau of Investigation is investigating the sexual assault case. attacks.
The newspaper editor explains that he plans to publish an article about the situation with newspaper thefts and the reasons for taking the issue so seriously, since they are “working hard” not to become “a story,” he adds.
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