LONGMONT

Longmont police execute four warrants in shooting investigation

Members of the Longmont Police Department’s Special Investigation Unit and the Longmont and Boulder County SWAT teams executed four search warrants on Tuesday, according to a Longmont Public Safety Department Facebook post.

Between 10 a.m. and noon, officers executed the warrants at properties in the areas of Main Street and Second Avenue, Mountain View Avenue and Hover Street, Mountain View and Sunset Street, and South Bowen and Iowa. The post stated that the warrants are part of an ongoing investigation into a shooting. The Longmont Police Department did not share any details about the shooting because the investigation is ongoing.

WELD COUNTY

36-year-old murder of teen girl still unsolved

Thirty-six years after 17-year-old Tracey Disbrow was found dead outside Erie after going missing, the Weld County Sheriff’s Office is still looking for answers.

In the summer of 1989, Tracey, who sometimes went by the name Tracey Ragains, was reported missing by her roommates in Colorado Springs, according to a social media post from the sheriff’s department. On July 9 of that year, Disbrow was found dead in an irrigation ditch near the intersection of Weld County Roads 4 and 7 southeast of Erie, a little more than a mile north of Children’s Hospital Colorado North Campus.

At the time of her death, Tracey was a witness set to testify against defendants in a case involving narcotics, prostitution and arson of a nightclub in Colorado Springs. She was a confidential informant for El Paso County and her information led to charges against several suspects. The Weld County Sheriff’s Office asks that anyone with information regarding Disbrow’s murder call the office’s tip line at 970-340-6464 or email Crimetips@weld.gov.

Erie

Town to host 28th annual balloon festival

From Friday to Sunday, Erie will host a free balloon festival in the open field across from Erie High School, on the northwest corner of Weld County Road 5 and Colliers Parkway.

The first balloon launch will begin at 6 a.m. Friday, just after sunrise. On Saturday, there will be both a morning flight and an evening “glow,” the festival website says. A balloon glow is a display of balloons after sunset, where balloons stay on the ground and light up. The evening event will also have food trucks, music and face painters, according to the website. The final launch will be at 6 a.m. Sunday morning.

Visitors are encouraged to arrive between 5:30 and 6 a.m. for launch and to get a seat on the mowed hill on the east edge of the field for optimal viewing. It could be cooler in the morning, around 55 degrees, warming up to 80-90 degrees in the later morning, festival oranizers say, so dressing in layers is recommended.

? Staff reports