Former Hockey Player Arrested in Colorado for N.C. Murder
By Alicia Cruz Theblackurbantimes A stand-off in Colorado Springs, Colorado yesterday led to the arrest of a former minor league Hockey player from Russia wanted in connection to a murder in Stallings , North Carolina. Bogdan Nikoevich Rudenko , 32, a minor-league hockey player was arrested after the hours-long standoff and placed in the El Paso County jail without bond on a fugitive from justice warrant out of Stallings , N.C. for First Degree murder. Rudenko , a native of Kamenogorski , Kazachstan , is listed in the Hockey player database as a "minor pro" and once played for the Colorado Gold Kings and the Twin City Cyclones of Winston Salem, N.C. The Cyclones stopped playing in March 2009 citing the economic downturn as the reason. Stallings Chief of Police, Larke Plyler said the standoff began at a Howard Johnson hotel in Colorado Springs, but he was unable to comment on how Colorado police came into contact with Rudenko in the first place. A homicide investigatio...