COLORADO SPRINGS — A fortune in gold, gleefully chucked into a Colorado Springs trash bin?

That’s the claim of Earl Ray Jones, a Teller County man who says he converted $500,000 in life savings into gold in May and then threw it away — all to prevent his wife of 25 years from seeing a nickel in their pending divorce.

“Damn right I did,” the 52-year-old former defense contractor huffed at a July deposition by the woman’s stunned divorce attorney, John-Paul Lyle of Colorado Springs.

In his sworn interview, Jones said he consigned the treasure to a Dumpster behind a Colorado Springs motel, according to a transcript obtained by The Gazette.

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