Its an old-fashioned paper caper but maybe dont call the cops.

Hundreds of copies of newspapers in Ouray, Colorado , were stolen from around town this week, the day the paper published a story about an alleged rape at the police chiefs house.

Ouray County Plaindealer co-publisher Erin McIntyre acknowledged the apparent theft of almost all the papers in an email to readers Thursday and encouraged them to connect the dots on their own.

Its pretty clear that someone didnt want the community to read the news this week, McIntyre wrote. Ill leave it up to you to draw your own conclusions on which story they didnt want you to read.

The front-page headline on the January 18-24 edition of the paper in question reads, Girl: Rapes occurred at chiefs house.

The story , authored by McIntyre, relays the horrific allegations of a 17-year-old girl who says she was repeatedly raped while at a party with the police chiefs stepson and two other individuals in May 2023.

The teenager told investigators that Ouray Police Chief Jeff Wood and his family were asleep upstairs at the time and that shed screamed and fought back, to no avail.