Stacks of local Colorado newspapers were stolen from their shelves Wednesday morning, just hours after an explosive story detailing the alleged gang rape of a teenage girl at the police chief’s home appeared on the front page.
The Ouray County Plaindealer broke the shocking news that three teenagers, including Chief Jeff Wood’s son, were accused of sexually assaulting a drunk girl on the bathroom floor while she fell in and out of consciousness.
However, readers who preferred the physical article did not have the opportunity to read the article, according to Plaindeadler co-editor Erin McIntyre, who wrote the story.
“All of our newspaper racks in Ouray and all but one in Ridgway were hit by a thief who stole all the newspapers. From what we know so far, it appears that this person put four quarters and took all the papers from these shelves,” McIntyre wrote in a newsletter Thursday night.
“It’s pretty clear that someone didn’t want the community to read the news this week. I’ll let you draw your own conclusions about what story they didn’t want you to read,” she continued.
A suspect was identified Friday, McIntyre said. The person’s identity will remain secret until a subpoena is issued, but the co-editor joked that they were not related to Wood or the three accused rapists.
According to the Plaindealer report, a 17-year-old girl told investigators she was raped more than once at Chief Wood’s home in May during a late-night party with her stepson Nate Dieffenderffer and two other men.
The Ouray County Plaindealer said hundreds of newspapers were stolen from every shelf in the county. Plain Ouray County Dealer
Gabriel Trujillo, 20, Ashton Whittington, 18, and a third man were arrested this week on suspicion of sexual assault, according to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. Dieffenderffer was not identified by authorities because he was a minor at the time of the crime.
The victim claimed she passed out from drinking too much in a bedroom, but woke up naked with Dieffenderffer on top of her, raping her.
The police chief’s stepson grabbed her when she tried to fight back and scream as the other suspects, one of whom was laughing, watched, according to court records.
Accused rapist Nathan Dieffenderffer, then 17, is the stepson of Police Chief Jeff Wood. Colorado Bureau of Investigation Gabriel Trujillo allegedly joined the brutal assault inside the police chief’s bathroom. Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Chief Wood was reportedly sleeping in the house during the assault.
Dieffenderffer and Trujillo then allegedly dragged her into the bathroom, where they took turns abusing and strangling her in an attack that was so brutal it left her with a broken tooth, and she told police she remembered washing the blood off in the shower. .
“I remember really trying to scream for someone to hear me and I screamed because of how painful it was,” she told investigators.
The victim said Ashton Whittington did not participate but did not intervene. Colorado Bureau of Investigation
Whittington allegedly did not participate but did not intervene.
The girl woke up around 4:30 a.m. on the bathroom floor and, unable to find her clothes, grabbed a sweatshirt from a pile of dirty clothes, which turned out to be Wood’s.
Evidence collected through a sexual assault examination matched Dieffenderffer and Trujillo, who told investigators that the girl was a “pathological liar” and “crazy,” but later admitted to having sex with her, according to the Plaindealer.
The brutal alleged rape took place at Police Chief Jeff Wood’s home during a party hosted by his stepson. Ouray County city
Wood’s DNA also turned up, but not in a significant amount that would reflect irregularities.
The chief did not immediately respond to The Post’s requests for comment.
According to McIntyre, an individual returned a trash bag full of stolen newspapers to the Plaindealer office Thursday night and confessed to stealing them.
Although police asked the Plaindealer not to provide further details at this time, the newspaper teased that the suspect was not related to the defendants or any law enforcement person.
The newspaper highlights, however, that the theft has only served to encourage its team to continue their work with more enthusiasm.
The newspapers were pulled from shelves just hours after the Ouray County Plaindealer published a front-page story about the alleged assault. Plain Ouray County Dealer
“Whoever did this doesn’t understand that stealing newspapers doesn’t stop a story,” McIntyre wrote in his newsletter, hours before the suspect showed up.
“This person is not going to end press freedom by stealing a few hundred newspapers. Our community will not tolerate it and neither will we,” he added.
“If you meant to intimidate us, you simply strengthened our resolve.”
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