Service Fri. for Pueblo County plane crash victim

9:49 AM, Sep 4, 2012   |    comments
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The family of sheriff's Capt. Leide DeFusco tells The Pueblo Chieftain a service for DeFusco is scheduled for 2 p.m. Friday.

DeFusco and retired Pueblo police Capt. John Barger died last Friday when their plane went down as they searched the mountains for evidence of an illegal marijuana operation.

The plane wreckage was found by a hiker on Greenhorn Mountain at about 10,000 feet in the San Isabel National Forest in Custer County.

Services for Barger, a pilot, are pending.

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