Pubdate: Sun, 09 Oct 2011 Source: Summit Daily News (CO) Copyright: 2011 Summit Daily News Contact: http://apps.summitdaily.com/forms/letter/index.php Website: http://www.summitdaily.com/home.php Details: http://www.mapinc.org/media/587 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. - --- MAP posted-by: Richard R Smith Jr.