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John and Patsy Ramsey
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 >>
The Qwest is yet to come
The sounds of silence at CU.
The sounds of silence at CU.
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Our February 4 story, "Medical Marijuana Has Become a Growth Industry in Colorado," described how the state's medical pot laws have fueled a booming dispensary industry -- an industry that was starting to look like the Wild West, with robberies and rip-off accusations thanks to lax regulations and ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
"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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
"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 >>
"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 >>
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 >>
Ari Misha Liggett, alleged amateur chemist.The warrant out for Ari Misha Liggett's arrest didn't mention anything about potentially explosive chemicals. According to Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office bureau chief Bruce Williamson, the Centennial man was wanted for illegal weapons possession -- ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
A Flickr photoBeing a policeman -- and we're using a gender-specific term for a reason -- is tough under the best circumstances. But some days are worse than others. Take the Boulder cop who responded to a domestic violence call, only to allegedly be given a rack job by the woman who'd helpe ... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Ryan Van Duzer.Why would Colorado be spotlighted in National Public Radio's ongoing series about obesity? Because while our fair state is currently the leanest in the U.S., we're still packing on the pounds despite the shining example of fitness beasts like Boulder's Ryan Van Duzer.
FlickrThere'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 >>
Big photos below.This weekend, Carl Gruber, 45, was busted at Boulder Municipal Airport with 55 pounds worth of marijuana. But while media reports on the arrest characterize Gruber as a suspected smuggler, he was been best known prior to this point as a pilot -- an award-winning one.
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