The 18-year-old stepson of Ouray Police Chief Jeff Wood and two others were accused of sexually assaulting a 17-year-old girl at a party that took place at the chief’s home.
Almost all the copies of a small-town Colorado newspaper were stolen from newspaper racks on the same day the paper released a story about a sexual assault that took place at the local police chief’s house during a late-night underage party in May 2023.
The Ouray County Plaindealer said the newspapers on all but one of their newspaper racks across Ridgway, Colorado were stolen, on Thursday.
‘Someone Didn’t Want the Community to Read the News’
“It’s pretty clear that someone didn’t want the community to read the news this week,” the paper wrote. Owner and publisher Mike Wiggins promised to get to the bottom of the theft.
“Someone didn’t like this edition of @ocplaindealer. (Guess which article.) So they stole nearly every newspaper out of our racks in Ouray County.
