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Boulder elk shooting: Suspended cop has taxidermy business

Update: The shooting of an elk in Boulder by an on-duty police officer has stirred controversy and prompted a candlelight vigil; get more information from our previous coverage, on view below. The latest developments: Boulder police chief Mark Beckner addressed concerned community members at a meeti ... More >>

Marijuana: Boulder's Dandelion Dispensary reopens after bizarre bear-mace robbery

Just checked in with the Boulder Police Department, and spokeswoman Kim Kobel tells us there have been no arrests or new developments regarding the investigation into a bizarre robbery at the Dandelion Dispensary, a Boulder marijuana shop. But at least the Dandelion has reopened after an extensive ... More >>

Daniel Cooper, shmuck, seems pleased to have been busted for up to 100 burglaries

Not many mug shots show the arrestee looking absolutely thrilled to step before a booking-photog's camera. But in his close-up, Daniel Stewart Cooper, our latest Shmuck of the Week, seems pleased as punch to have been taken into custody -- although he was apparently less jazzed when he was rounded u ... More >>

Boulder Police Twitter freakout: Six tweets in four minutes about locking your car

Members of the Boulder Police Department want you to lock your car. Really. Seriously. No kidding. In fact, they so badly want you to lock your car that this morning, the BPD's Twitter account spewed out six tweets telling you to lock your car over the span of four minutes. And reading them back to ... More >>

Flagstaff fire update: Stuck at 90 percent contained, some open space areas still closed

Update: The Boulder Office of Emergency Management was so confident the Flagstaff fire outside of town was a thing of the past that a so-called "final update" was posted on Saturday afternoon. But despite predictions of 100 percent containment before the weekend was done, Flagstaff (the lesser of th ... More >>

Mack Meade's alleged weapons used against bicyclist: spit and a machete

Bike rage incidents are becoming more common: Remember allegations of tacks left on paths in Deer Creek Canyon last year? But the Boulder Police Department thinks Mack Meade's actions weren't nearly as stealth. He's been arrested on suspicion that he spat on a bicyclist and threatened him with a mac ... More >>

Two Boulder women cited for making up random attacks

Reports of random assaults in Boulder understandably sow fear among residents, and no wonder, given the large number of young women who attend the University of Colorado. Unfortunately, bogus claims have the same effect -- and the Boulder Police Department has now accused two women, Allyson Manley a ... More >>

Nicholas Foti and two pals accused of killing a raccoon with a baseball bat and machete

Flickr​There's a reason raccoons wear masks. They're natural bandits. But there's a better way of dealing with such a rapscallion than beating him to death with a bat and then skewering him with a machete -- which is precisely what three students, including Nicholas Foti (whose Facebook page f ... More >>

Sex assault suspect in Boulder wanted for attacking woman during 4:30 a.m. fast-food run

Big pic below.​Walking alone in any city -- even one as seemingly safe as Boulder -- during the early morning hours can lead to bad things. The latest evidence: a sexual assault on an eighteen-year-old woman making a fast-food run early Saturday morning. Page down to see a sketch of the suspe ... More >>

Trevor Morris and Ashley Bradford accused of using machetes to rob pot from MMJ dispensary

​Sounds like the set-up for a joke: A couple dressed more or less as ninjas, and carrying machetes, walk into a medical marijuana dispensary. What do they want? Weed! Trevor Morris and Ashley Bradford probably don't find this punchline to be especially funny, though, given that they've been ar ... More >>

Kevin McGregor: 1st degree murder charge in Todd Walker case, death penalty on table? (62)

Big pic below.​Update: Kevin McGregor has now been charged with first-degree murder in relation to the shooting of University of New Hampshire football player Todd Walker this past Friday -- and the case is on a very fast track, with a preliminary hearing slated for April 25. In the meantime, ... More >>

Stephen Edward Siebold allegedly bites the hand of the woman who won't buy him beer

Siebold.​Don't bite the hand that feeds you, the saying goes. But biting the hand that doesn't give you beer has drawbacks, too, as Stephen Edward Siebold, age nineteen, is finding out in regard to an incident that's already crossed the pond thanks to coverage in London's Daily Mail. Here's t ... More >>

Michael O'Connor arrested in fellow ex-CU Buff linebacker Michael Sipili sex assault case

Michael O'Connor.​Update: On January 11, acclaimed CU Buffs linebacker Michael Sipili was arrested on sex assault charges, as documented in a post on view in its entirety below. Now, a second CU former CU linebacker, Michael O'Connor, has been arrested in the case -- reportedly for letting Si ... More >>

Boulder Mall Crawl photo gallery: Will the 2010 version include a Naked Pumpkin Run?

Large photos below.​Earlier this week, we shared the Boulder Police Department's plans to deal with the Boulder Mall Crawl and possible Naked Pumpkin Run this weekend. City of Boulder spokeswoman Sarah Huntley wasn't enthusiastic about a naked run, but she hoped the crawl would go as smoothly ... More >>

Reader: Seeing junk during Naked Pumpkin Run not as scary as wrong Google images search

2005 Pumpkin Run.​Our piece yesterday about the Boulder Police Department preparing for a possible Naked Pumpkin Run and revived Boulder Mall Crawl Halloween weekend drew a philosophical comment from one reader. In his opinion, being unexpectedly confronted by a giant image of someone's speci ... More >>

Sean Griffin, Staci Griffin, Rob Montgomery dead at Boulder Stove & Flooring: Murder-suicide?

Boulder Stove & Flooring co-owner Sean Griffin.​The three bodies found yesterday at Boulder Stove & Flooring have now been identified as co-owners Sean and Staci Griffin and Rob Montgomery. According to the Denver Post, Montgomery was the store's health-products specialist; he'd worked as a so ... More >>

Sean Griffin and Staci Griffin, Nos. 1 & 2: Rob Montgomery ID'd as shooter in Boulder Stove & Flooring murder-suicide

Staci Griffin and her husband died together yesterday.​On May 17, 2009, Westword launched Mile High Murder, a blog category tracking homicide in the seven-county Denver/Boulder metro area. Over the next year, we wrote about ninety different murders -- all of them shocking in their own way. On ... More >>

Jarrad McKay and Matthew Baker paint themselves into a criminal mischief complaint

A Flickr photoThe culprit.​Jarrad McKay, 21, and Matthew Baker, twenty, haven't been accused of committing the perfect crime. Instead, they've been charged with taking part in a really stupid one -- and then making it jaw-droppingly easy for the cops to bust them for it. Early this morning, o ... More >>

Boulder Stove & Flooring: Three dead bodies found inside

The scene of the crime.​Today was supposed to be former Boulder Police Department public-information officer Sarah Huntley's first day as spokeswoman for the City of Boulder as a whole -- but she was called back to her old job because of a very grim discovery: three dead bodies found inside a ... More >>

Sorry, kids: Woman who insists on gardening topless near school is 52

Imagine something like this, children.​Boulder's Catharine Pierce, 52, doesn't like anything to get between her and her garden -- which is why yesterday afternoon she tended the flora and fauna in her front yard topless. Pierce lives within a block of the Shining Mountain Waldorf School, a pr ... More >>

Be kind to charity: $8,000 bag of weed found in Boulder donation bin

"Why don't you put that over in the garden section?"​One of the hallmarks of marijuana culture is the willingness of tokers to share their supply with others. But an incident in Boulder yesterday takes that generosity to a whole new level. That's because charity workers going through a donati ... More >>

Shannon Keith makes busting him easier than ripping an ATM out of a wall with a stolen U-Haul

"I'm a criminal genius!"​Back in November, when we told you about an attempt by a man to steal an ATM in Boulder by ripping it out of a wall using a stolen U-Haul truck, we wrote that the most amazing thing about the perpetrator wasn't "that he thought the scheme might actually work. It's that ... More >>

Boulder woman wakes up with stranger's hands in her underwear -- and her boyfriend beside her

Not paranormal activity, but abnormal activity.​Early yesterday morning in Boulder, a college-age woman living in an apartment on the 1800 block of 22nd Street awakened to find a man's hands in her underwear -- and although her boyfriend was sleeping beside her, the hands weren't his. Accordi ... More >>

Small man tries to steal big-screen TV, failure ensues

A Flickr photo"You're not thinking about stealing me, are you?"​Swiping televisions used to be easier when they didn't all used to be so friggin' huge -- especially if you're as relatively small of stature as a suspected robber who was in the midst of trying to manhandle a 46-inch set in Bould ... More >>

Boulder cops thrilled with low-key Mall Crawl, Naked Pumpkin Run

"Thank you for not arresting us!"​In the weeks leading up to Halloween, the Boulder Police Department worked overtime to prevent a chaotic revival of the Mall Crawl tradition that peaked in the late '80s and early '90s, and warned possible participants in the annual Naked Pumpkin Run that they ... More >>

Check out photos of the kinda/sorta Halloween Boulder Mall Crawl and Naked Pumpkin Run

As photog Alan O'Hashi writes, "These are the most daring Naked Pumpkin runners -- they created lawful prosthetic devices to emulate nudity."​Looks like the Boulder Police Department largely succeeded at preventing a full-scale revival of the Boulder Mall Crawl and throwing a towel over the an ... More >>

Boulder DA Stan Garnett and the ACLU's Mark Silverstein weigh in post-Mall Crawl and Naked Pumpkin Run

Stan Garnett isn't having to spend a lot of time weighing the differences between indecent exposure and public indecency.​We still don't know all the particulars about the Halloween festivities on Boulder's Pearl Street Mall on Saturday; at this writing, the Boulder Police Department is still ... More >>

Is taking part in the Naked Pumpkin Run a crime?

During an interview for last week's blog about criticism of the Boulder Police Department's efforts to squelch a revival of the Boulder Mall Crawl this Halloween, Judd Golden, chapter chair of the Boulder County American Civil Liberties Union, mentioned another event expected to bust out that night: ... More >>

Boulder police still worried that Halloween on the Pearl Street Mall will crawl with problems

Will the Pearl Street Mall crawl like this again?​ Ever since word surfaced about a Facebook campaign to resurrect the once-wild (and long-dormant) Boulder Mall Crawl, the Boulder Police Department has attempted to dial down the prospect of a too-huge throng celebrating on the Pearl Street Mal ... More >>

Text this: Kidnapping foiled by stealthy thumb work

A Flickr photo"I've been kidnapped. Not LOL. Not :)"​ Face the facts: Texting in cars can be a pain in the ass when it's done by drivers who pay more attention to remembering how many times to press the "3" button to get the letter "e" than they do to staying in their lane. But in the case of ... More >>

Another Boulder crime involving nudity -- sort of

A locker-room theft subject (click to enlarge photo).​Boulder isn't free of serious law-breaking: As evidence, we submit the repulsive case of David McCoy, an amateur doctor and psychologist whose "trust-building exercises" allegedly involve medical examinations of certain areas generally kept ... More >>

Lesson to puppy thieves: Never steal anything adorable

The saga of Ferris the stolen dachshund has a happy ending -- for everyone except the trio who swiped him. Thanks to the Boulder Police Department's energetic efforts to locate the parties who spirited the pooch away from the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, a good Samaritan who'd been asked to wa ... More >>

Ferris the dachshund is back -- and he can be yours!

Ferris' day off is over.​Yesterday, we told you about the Boulder Police Department's valiant efforts to find a dachshund puppy named Ferris, who was allegedly snatched from the Humane Society of Boulder Valley earlier this month. Mere hours after that post, according to a BPD release on view ... More >>

Can you help save a puppy named Ferris?

The Boulder PD thinks these guys may be puppy thieves.​Ferris is a dachshund. A cute dachshund, no doubt, not only because dachshunds are, by their nature, cute, but because the thought of a dachshund named Ferris is even cuter. And some people stole him. Bad people who folks at the Boulder Po ... More >>

Here's something those new CU cops can do with their time

​With students returning to the University of Colorado at Boulder campus for the fall semester, the Boulder Police Department is stepping up DUI patrols -- and the CU cops will be out in greater force, too. The university department has added six more officers as part of an overall plan to red ... More >>

Daily Camera editorial argues for legalizing weed

Peter Tosh and the Daily Camera's Erika Stutzman are on the same page.​The Boulder Police Department is stepping up DUI patrols and the University of Colorado at Boulder is adding new officers as college students invade the city for the fall semester. But in an opinion piece today, a member of ... More >>

Mile High Murder, No. 28: Traci Housman booked in slaying on the 2900 block of 23rd Street in Boulder

View Larger Map Early Sunday morning, Traci Housman, 36, called 911 to report that someone had stabbed her husband at the home they shared on the 2900 block of 23rd Street in Boulder, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"). Presumably, ... More >>

Possible helium death not exactly a gas

What the hell's going on with Boulder and bizarre suicides? Last month, the Boulder Outlook Hotel was evacuated due to the possibility of strange chemicals in the room of a man who killed himself; turns out the fumes in question were traced to charcoal in a small grill. Then, yesterday, residents ... More >>

Men wanted for taking medical marijuana without prescription

Banana, a strain of marijuana prized for its pain relief. Even as Arapahoe County officials go beyond the call of duty in their efforts to bust Brian Wayne Coplen, who's wanted for allegedly running a marijuana grow-house in Bennett, representatives of the Boulder Police Department are questioning ... More >>

Boulder Naked Bike Ride is naughty-bits free

The Boulder Police Department's threat of potentially registering genital-displaying Naked Bike Ride peddlers as sex offenders seems to have done the trick. This weekend's Ride went off without a hitch, but with plenty of stitches over groins -- and pasties on male and female nipples alike, as can ... More >>

Boulder Outlook Hotel toxins warning more of a barbecue invitation

An image from the Boulder Outlook Hotel's website. More Boulder news -- a follow-up to the Friday blog "Suicidal Boulder Outlook Hotel Guest Causes Problems at Check-Out," about a man who left a note at the aforementioned facility warning about a chemical release shortly before killing himself. Tha ... More >>

Suicidal Boulder Outlook Hotel guest causes problems at check-out

A shot of the Boulder Outlook from the hotel's website. The Boulder Outlook touts itself as the "cure for the common hotel." Today, however, folks at the business likely wish they could find a cure for the uncommon guest. Yesterday, Boulder Police found a 41-year-old man dead of an apparent suicide ... More >>

Boulder cops threaten (totally) Naked Bike Ride participants with registration as sex offenders

This Saturday, June 13, plenty of Boulder residents will take part in the World Naked Bike Ride -- and if they're anything like the ones who wheeled around during the 2007 Denver event seen in the video above, a lot of them will actually be, well, naked. But this year, those who take the name of t ... More >>

Boulder Police find three bodies in home on 2400 block of Bluff Street

View Larger Map This morning, officers with the Boulder Police Department discovered three bodies in a residence located on the 2400 block of Bluff Street -- an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"). At this point, the BPD hasn't identif ... More >>

Colorado Crimes: Another scary sketch from Boulder PD

A Boulder Police Department sketch of a suspect in a "suspicious incident." The Boulder Police Department put out an unusual release a short time ago, involving an incident that may have been a crime -- or it might have been perfectly innocent. On Monday, a pre-teen girl was approached by a man ou ... More >>

Colorado Crimes: Have you seen a man with a ponytail and a pencil-thin mustache?

A sketch of a Boulder robbery suspect. "Police are releasing a composite sketch of a suspect who was involved in an armed robbery on Wednesday, May 6, on north Broadway," states a just-issued Boulder Police Department press release. "This man and another suspect are believed to have been involved i ... More >>

Wake-Up Call: JonBenét Ramsey and 1990s nostalgia

As the awful economic news keeps pouring out (Agile Group, anyone?), you can understand the urge to look back at the good old days. Even the bad crimes of the good old days. And so yesterday, the new Boulder District Attorney and the old Boulder Police Chief held a joint press conference to announ ... More >>

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