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Fox News
06-07-2025
- Fox News
Inside Barry Morphew's secretive life 600 miles away from epicenter of murder investigation into wife's death
CAVE CREEK, Ariz. – Over 600 miles away from Salida, Colorado, where Suzanne Morphew vanished on Mother's Day in 2020, Barry Morphew found an escape from the state where prosecutors initially tried, but failed, to convict him of killing his wife. Barry Morphew was indicted by a grand jury on charges of murder in the first degree after deliberation on June 20 in relation to the death of his wife, 49-year-old Suzanne Morphew, who was also the mother to two daughters. Barry Morphew was arrested in Goodyear, Arizona, almost 11 hours from where his wife went missing. Barry Morphew settled down in Cave Creek, Arizona, after prosecutors dropped murder charges in 2022 relating to his wife's disappearance. The charges were dropped after alleged prosecutorial misconduct and failure to comply with discovery rules, resulting in the judge barring several state witnesses from testifying. One restaurant employee in Cave Creek, Arizona told Fox News Digital he didn't know Barry Morphew by his first name – and thought he was an entirely different person. Charlie Loots, bar manager at Harold's Cave Creek Corral, told Fox News Digital that Barry Morphew went by the name "Bruce." Loots didn't know Barry Morphew's real name until June 20, when news reports began to surface about murder charges relating to Suzanne Morphew's death. "I was shocked that, again, I mean, I was very caught off guard about all of it," Loots said. "I spent, honestly, as soon as I found about it, I spent like two hours reading articles about it. I was like, I was so intrigued, because I was, like, this s--- doesn't happen," he said. Loots said he began seeing Barry Morphew, or Bruce, as he knew the murder suspect, after the Coronavirus pandemic. He said Barry Morphew's go-to drink was beer, often switching between Miller Lite and Coors Light, adding that he was at the bar on June 13, exactly one week before his arrest. Barry Morphew "always was approached by other women" at the bar, Loots said, adding that he would frequently approach other women and flirted with them. Libby Spruill told Fox News Digital she was one of the women Barry Morphew flirted with at Harold's Cave Creek Corral. Spruill said she was at Harold's Cave Creek Corral in March 2024 when he asked if she wanted to dance. "He walked out to me and he said, 'hi.' He's like, 'Do you want to dance?' And I said, 'You're Barry Morphew,'" Spruill said. At the time, according to Spruill, Barry Morphew said "no, no, I think you have the wrong person." A bit later, Spruill said an individual approached them and introduced Barry Morphew as "Lee" from Indiana. According to the June 20 grand jury indictment, Barry Morphew went by the alias "Lee Moore." A local gas station clerk told Fox News Digital he knew Barry Morphew by the name "Lee." Public records indicate Barry Morphew paid property taxes at the Stardust Trailer park and was self-employed. In Colorado, he was a landscaper and independent contractor, but he didn't hold any professional license to do either in Arizona. Colin McCallin, a Colorado-based lawyer and former deputy district attorney for the 18th Judicial District Attorney's Office in Colorado, told Fox News Digital the use of two aliases is uncommon. "That's weird," McCallin said. "I mean, that certainly is evidence that this is a person who does not want to be known by his true name, maybe even, know, a little reckless with the use of those aliases." "It's clear he did not want to be known by Barry," he said, adding its possible Barry Morphew was trying to live a double life in Cave Creek, Arizona. Prosecutors wrote in a June 20 indictment that the chemicals butorphanol, azaperone and medetomidine were found in Suzanne Morphew's bone marrow. They alleged that Barry Morphew used "BAM" deer tranquilizer to sedate and transport deer on his farm when he lived in Indiana. Barry Morphew was also the only person with a prescription for the deer tranquilizer within the area of the state he lived in, prosecutors said. The only two other entities with access to the BAM compound within the surrounding counties were Colorado Parks and Wildlife and the National Park Service, officials said. "Ultimately, the prescription records show that when Suzanne Morphew disappeared, only one private citizen living in that entire area of the state had access to BAM: Barry Morphew," the indictment states. Morphew's attorney, David Beller, previously told Fox News Digital Morphew "maintains his innocence." "Yet again, the government allows their predetermined conclusion to lead their search for evidence," Beller said. "The case has not changed, and the outcome will not either." Barry Morphew's lawyer declined to comment.
Bloomberg
24-06-2025
- Business
- Bloomberg
This Company Wants to Make Buying Pot as Easy as Buying Produce
One of the biggest US multistate cannabis companies is betting its customers just want to get in and get out. Verano Holdings Corp., which has 157 stores across 13 states, is opening a pilot location in Cave Creek, Arizona, that's more like a convenience store than the traditional dispensaries that most companies operate. This type of setup is rare in the tightly regulated industry, where most products are kept behind the counter and handed over by staff after ID checks.
Yahoo
18-03-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
Intrepid Metals Announces Listed Issuer Financing Exemption (LIFE) Private Placement of Units
Vancouver, British Columbia--(Newsfile Corp. - March 18, 2025) - Intrepid Metals Corp. (TSXV: INTR) (OTCQB: IMTCF) ("Intrepid" or the "Company") announces a non-brokered private placement (the "Offering") consisting of a minimum of 6,326,530 and up to a maximum of 10,204,080 units (the "Units"), with each Unit consisting of one common share and one-half of one common share purchase warrant (each full common share purchase warrant, a "Warrant") at a price of $0.49 per Unit for aggregate gross proceeds of a minimum of $3.1 million up to a maximum of $5 million. Each full Warrant shall entitle the holder thereof to acquire one additional common share at a price of $0.68 for a period of twenty-four (24) months from the closing date of the Offering. The net proceeds will be used for exploration expenditures on the Company's mineral properties, including drilling at its Corral Copper Project, and general working capital. The Warrants are subject to an acceleration right that allows the Company to give notice of an earlier expiry date if the Company's closing share price on the TSX Venture Exchange is equal to or greater than $1.02 for a period of ten (10) consecutive trading days. There is an offering document related to this Offering that can be accessed under the Company's profile at and at Prospective investors should read this offering document before making an investment decision. The Offering is being made to purchasers resident in all provinces of Canada, except Quebec, pursuant to the listed issuer financing exemption under Part 5A of NI 45-106 (the "Listed Issuer Financing Exemption"). Pursuant to the limitations of the Listed Issuer Financing Exemption, the Units offered under the Listed Issuer Financing Exemption will not be subject to resale restrictions pursuant to applicable Canadian securities laws. Intrepid intends to close the Offering on or around April 2, 2025. Closing of the Offering is subject to approval of the TSX Venture Exchange. Finder's fees of 6% in cash and 6% in finder warrants, which terms will be the same as the Warrants, may be paid on a portion of the Offering in accordance with the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange. The Company has also entered into an agreement to amend (the "Amendment") the share purchase agreement dated February 13, 2023 with Cave Creek Copper Inc. ("Cave Creek") and the shareholders of Cave Creek (the "Cave Creek Shareholders") to acquire a 100% of the shares of Cave Creek which holds a portion of the Corral Property. The Amendment provides for an extension to make $395,000 in cash payments to August 31, 2025. Subject to the approval of the TSXV, in return for the extension the cash payment amount shall be increased by $19,750, 38,725 Common Shares shall be issued and 220,000 warrants shall be issued in each case to Cave Creek Shareholders. Each warrant shall be exercisable for a Common Share for a period of one year at an exercise price of $0.51 per Common Share. About Intrepid Metals Corp. Intrepid Metals Corp. is a Canadian company focused on exploring for high-grade essential metals such as copper, silver, and zinc mineral projects in proximity to established mining jurisdictions in southeastern Arizona, USA. The Company has acquired or has agreements to acquire several drill ready projects, including the Corral Copper Project (a district scale advanced exploration and development opportunity with significant shallow historical drill results), the Tombstone South Project (within the historical Tombstone mining district with geological similarities to the Taylor Deposit, which was purchased for $1.3B in 20183, though mineralization at the Taylor Deposit is not necessarily indicative of the mineral potential at the Tombstone South Project) both of which are located in Cochise County, Arizona and the Mesa Well Project (located in the Laramide Copper Porphyry Belt in Arizona). Intrepid has assembled an exceptional team with considerable experience with exploration, developing, and permitting new projects within North America. Intrepid is traded on the TSX Venture Exchange (TSXV) under the symbol "INTR" and on the OTCQB Venture Market under the symbol "IMTCF". For more information, visit INTREPID METALS behalf of the Company"Ken Engquist"CEO For further information regarding this news release, please contact: Ken Engquist, CEO604-681-8030info@ Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Information Certain statements contained in this release constitute forward-looking information within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws. Such forward-looking statements relate the completion of the Offering or any tranche thereof; the number of securities to be issued under the Offering and the gross proceeds received; the timing of the closing of the Offering; the payment of any finders fees and the form thereof; the use of net proceeds from the Offering; and the terms of the Amendment and TSXV approval of the Amendment. In certain cases, forward-looking information can be identified by the use of words such as "plans", "expects", "budget", "scheduled", "estimates", "forecasts", "intends", "anticipates" or "believes", or variations of such words and phrases or state that certain actions, events or results "may", "could", "would", "might", "occur" or "be achieved" suggesting future outcomes, or other expectations, beliefs, plans, objectives, assumptions, intentions or statements about future events or performance. Forward-looking information contained in this news release is based on certain factors and assumptions regarding, among other things, the Company can raise additional financing to continue operations; the TSXV approves the Offering or the Amendment; and the timing of closing the Offering. While the Company considers these assumptions to be reasonable based on information currently available to it, they may prove to be incorrect. Forward looking information involves known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors which may cause the actual results, performance or achievements of the Company to be materially different from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking information. The forward-looking information is made as of the date of this news release. Except as required by applicable securities laws, the Company does not undertake any obligation to publicly update or revise any forward-looking information. Neither the TSX Venture Exchange nor its Regulation Services Provider (as that term is defined in the policies of the TSX Venture Exchange) has reviewed or accepts responsibility for the adequacy or accuracy of this release. This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy nor shall there be any sale of the securities in any state in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. The securities being offered have not been, nor will they be, registered under the 1933 Act and may not be offered or sold in the United States absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the 1933 Act, as amended, and application state securities laws. To view the source version of this press release, please visit Sign in to access your portfolio
