EX-COLLEGE OFFICIAL TO STAND TRIAL FOR SLAYING

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - Prosecutors say a hunt for drug dealers
who sold an ex-college official a bag of dirt for $600 instead of
heroin lead to a slaying in a church parking lot.

The Gazette of Colorado Springs reports (http://bit.ly/mWsM0R ) that
63-year-old Michael Berkowitz is the former director of enrollment at
the University of Phoenix, and owner of a jewelry store in Aspen. A
judge Friday ordered that he stand trial on several charges, including
murder and kidnapping in the June 30 death of 27-year-old Matthew
Moore. Prosecutors say that Berkowitz and another man who served as
Berkowitz bodyguard kidnapped Moore and gunned him down at Calvary
Baptist Church. Berkowitz told investigators that 23-year-old Rodrigo
Rubio was the triggerman.

Police say Berkowitz ordered Rubio to kill Moore.