Newspapers stolen on day it publishes story with allegations of teen's rape at Colorado police chief's home

A newspaper that published a story about an alleged rape at the home of a Colorado police chief said that week's paper was stolen out of racks, keeping people from purchasing the edition. 

The Ouray County Plaindealer reported on Wednesday that a teenage girl had allegedly been assaulted multiple times during a late-night party with the Ouray County police chief's stepson and two others in May. The 17-year-old reported the alleged assaults to investigators, and said that she screamed and fought back while Police Chief Jeff Wood and his family slept upstairs. Wood declined to comment for the Plaindealer's story. 

According to the Plaindealer, the initial case report was taken by an investigator from the Ouray County Sheriff's Office before the case was referred to the Colorado Bureau of Investigation. In a statement on Thursday, Ouray officials said they had been monitoring the case since May because Wood's residence was involved in the alleged assault. The Ouray Police Department was not involved in the investigation, the statement said, and "no personnel investigations are being conducted in the Ouray Police Department" as a result of the allegations.