30 years ago – November 4, 1983
Two Gap Road residents were arraigned in County Court Tuesday on charges of theft. The two were apprehended by Rollinsville resident and Gilpin County Commissioner Jerry Ward at the scene of the alleged burglary on October 8. According to the report of Undersheriff Eric Klemp, Ward was driving away from Rollinsville, south on Highway 119, when he looked back to his left and saw a pickup parked in front of a building he owns on Main Street. He saw two people carrying items from the building to a truck. He turned around and went back to Rollinsville and parked his truck by the pickup, blocking it from going onto Main Street. The two allegedly got into their pickup and drove away from Ward down a dead-end. They then backed their truck towards Ward. Ward told them he was detaining them until the sheriff could arrive. Undersheriff Klemp arrived about a half-hour later. One of the burglars had allegedly left on foot by the time Klemp came on the scene.
Although he is expected to be off the job for about six weeks, Scott Cline is out of the hospital. He was the unfortunate driver of the 1971 county dump truck that crashed last week. Cline suffered a broken arm, but no internal injuries. The truck, however, was not so lucky and was deemed “a total loss” by Commissioner Jerry Ward. County Commissioner Van Cullar said this week that the County will replace the wrecked truck with a brand new one. Not only will it have “maxi-brakes” which is a requirement on all new trucks that would have probably avoided last week’s accident, it will be cheaper to maintain and parts will be easier to find. Cullar said that the truck will probably cost about $40,000 and estimates the County will pick up about half of that and the insurance company will pick up the other half.
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