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Photos: Six people hurt in Thornton crash after Northglenn police chase alleged car thief

There's always debate about when police should engage in a car chase with suspects -- and when doing so is simply too dangerous for everyone involved, including innocent bystanders. Against that backdrop, we offer the facts that have surfaced thus far about a rollover crash in Thornton that injured ... More >>

Man stabbed to death in apartment on 1100 block of Yosemite in Aurora (78)

If it seems to you that the number of homicides in the metro area has gone up since the weather has improved, you're right. There were three this weekend alone, including a fatal shooting at a Denny's near 17th and Federal and a murder-attempted suicide outside a home at 44th and Sherman. The third ... More >>

Ten unsolved Colorado murders: Read personal stories of the victims

The Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons website draws attention to unsolved murders, and we tried to do likewise in three posts last year -- in May, September and November. The ten crimes featured in this installment include two of the most famous unsolved crimes in Boulder history: the ... More >>

Isaiah Moreno arrested in fatal stabbing of Estevan Ruiz on RTD bus (70)

Update: We've been reporting about a fatal stabbing on a Number 15 RTD bus near Federal and Colfax yesterday afternoon. A short time ago, the Denver Police Department revealed that Isaiah Moreno, twenty, had been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder. Now, the Denver coroner's office has ide ... More >>

Homicide investigation over dead man found on Jewell Avenue in Aurora (38)

Unfortunately, Aurora has suffered yet another killing. Just days after Tisihia Allen was charged with second-degree murder in the October 2 stabbing death of Darius Norris, homicide investigators at Aurora Police Department are hard at work on yet another fatal case.

Matthew Gianopoulos ID'd as victim in Green Valley Ranch homicide (35)

Update: Last week, we told you about a homicide in Green Valley Ranch on Wednesday evening; look below for our previous coverage. Now, the Denver coroner's office has identified the victim as Matthew Gianopoulos, age 21. The cause of death was multiple gunshot wounds. Here's a little more about a y ... More >>

Photos: Avery Workman found safe -- but was she a runaway or drugging victim?

Update: Yesterday, Avery Workman, a sixteen-year-old youth circus performer from Elbert County who vanished off the 16th Street Mall, was found safe. But while media reports like this one suggest she ran away, the folks behind the Facebook page that coordinated the search for her insist she was dru ... More >>

Aurora homicide near Moline Street sixth in city since Memorial Day weekend (15)

A short time ago, we reported about a Sunday night homicide in Aurora that probably took place near East Second Avenue and Peoria, although police aren't positive about the location just yet. About an hour afterward, another man was shot dead in the city, likely on the 1500 block of Moline Street. ... More >>

Ernesto Rodriguez-Rodriguez ID'd as victim in Aurora's Abrigo Apartments murder (11)

Update: We now know the identity of the man found shot to death in a parking lot outside the Abrigo Apartments in Aurora: Ernesto Rodriguez-Rodriguez, age 44. Thus far, though, the Aurora Police Department isn't releasing much more information about the case -- including any possible suspects.

Anthony Escobedo busted for Billy Newson homicide near Colfax-Pearl "drug market" (41)

Update:Denver Police have busted Anthony Escobedo, 31, in the March 18 slaying of Billy Newson in the vicinity of Colfax and Pearl. Escobedo reportedly has at least one major conviction in his past. As for Newson, his arrest history suggests to Denver District Attorney's Office spokeswoman Lynn Kimb ... More >>

Leroy Wright identified as homicide victim in shooting at 2100 block of Franklin (40)

Leroy Wright, 55, has been identified as the victim of a shooting that appears to have taken place this past Friday on the 2100 block of Franklin Street. At this point, the Denver Police Department isn't offering any information about possible suspects, or much of anything else.

9News-Denver Police relationship not overly cozy, producer says

In our post about a 9News red-light-camera story that featured inaccurate information supplied by the Denver Police Department, which had touted the report in a Twitter survey, we cited one source's suggestion that the relationship between the DPD and the station was too cozy. That observer pointed ... More >>

Badges, guns, Taser stolen during burglary of Boulder deputy

​Shortly after Boulder deputy Rick Ferguson's arrest for Internet luring and sexual exploitation of a child, one of his colleagues was personally involved in a crime, too -- but as a victim, not the alleged perpetrator. He was burglarized, and the thief or thieves got away with lotsa tools of ... 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 >>

Sex assault home invader picks the wrong woman to attack: Do you recognize him?

Big sketch below.​Here's proof that self-defense training really pays off: A woman schooled in martial arts reportedly managed to fend off an attacker who'd gotten into her home. Now, the Aurora Police Department is circulating a computer composite of the man, who's suspected of burglary and ... More >>

Hit-and-run driver who hit woman in wheelchair on South Holly: Search continues

Graphic below.​The number of shocking hit-and-runs in the Denver area continue to mount. Now, hot on the peeled rubber of cases involving Brittany Gonzales, who allegedly struck a child but only stopped for her hubcap, and Lisa Norton, the so-called hit-and-swim driver, comes word of an incid ... More >>

Top 25 most violent fugitives in Denver: A mug shot and offense gallery (PHOTOS)

"I'm only No. 20?"​The Denver Police Department has trimmed its fifty most wanted fugitives list by half but multiplied the mayhem via its roster of the city's 25 most violent fugitives. The mug shots of those who follow first target Robert Juan Gee stand out thanks to the best neck tattoo (No ... 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 >>

Herbert Dailey: Sex offender suspeced of assault on 20-year-old nabbed after bicycle violation

Big pic below.​Herbert Dailey, a registered sex offender, might not have been busted for suspicion of a home-invasion sexual assault earlier this month if he'd been a better bike rider. According to the Fort Collins Police Department, Dailey was stopped by cops after a "bicycle violation," at ... More >>

Sex assault: Recognize alleged attacker of woman behind closed Albertsons on Sheridan?

Big pic below.​The longer our current economic downturn lasts, the longer buildings sit vacant -- and that can be dangerous. Case in point: an attack that took place earlier this month behind a shuttered Albertsons at 3125 South Sheridan Boulevard. The Denver Police Department has released a d ... More >>

Donnell Littleton surrenders to authorities for Trison Mitta-Sports Station Bar homicide (53)

Near the scene.​Update: An arrest has been made in the Trison Mitta homicide at the Sports Station Bar & Grill in Aurora late last month. The suspect, Donnell Littleton, made it easy on the Aurora Police Department. Rather than waiting for officers to chase him down, he surrendered to authori ... 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 >>

Joseph Owen Coy accused of racially motivated crime on Olubiyi Ogundipe near Hookah House

​Early Saturday, an altercation took place near Boulder's Hookah House, at 1325 Broadway. And Boulder Police believe what took place constitutes a racially motivated crime -- hence, the accusations against Lafayette's Joseph Owen Coy, who's said to have called CU student Olubiyi Ogundipe and a ... More >>

Dumb crime of the day: When robbers can't crack bank vault, they steal janitor's wallet and truck

Full-sized photos below.​Here's guessing that two lugs currently wanted by the Weld County Sheriff's Office won't be getting a membership invite from Mensa anytime soon. True, they were smart enough to get inside a Keenesburg bank. Problem was, they couldn't figure out how to get any money ou ... More >>

Boulder Fourmile Canyon fire containment date estimated as September 13, evacuee's car looted

​The news from the Fourmile Canyon fire near Boulder keeps coming fast and furious. Authorities now predict that full containment won't be achieved until Monday, September 13 -- and there's also word that some scumbag stole about $1,500 worth of stuff from an evacuee's car. Details below:

Marciene Sullivan charged with uploading child-pornography images of young girl known to him

Marciene Sullivan.​Authorities in Boulder have charged Marciene Sullivan, 52, with 23 separate counts in the child-abuse and child-pornography categories. Why both? Because not only did Sullivan allegedly upload child-porn images, but some of the shots were of a young girl known to him. Shudd ... 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 >>

Kirk Alan Richardson, sex offender wanted for new assault: Police warn not to be fooled by his Jesus and hearts tattoos

Kirk Alan Richardson is allegedly up to his old tricks.​Kirk Alan Richardson, 56, sports a couple of seemingly benign tattoos: Jesus on one forearm, hearts on the other. No skull-and-crossbones or slogan like "Kill 'em all and let God sort 'em out" for him. Yet he's also a convicted sex offe ... More >>

Limping Latex Bandit has premature explosion in his car

No, not that kind of latex.​Update, 4:32 p.m.: Just notified by the Douglas County Sheriff's Office that Merle Allison, who's believed to be the Limping Latex Bandit, has been captured. Look below the original item to get all the details. As the number of Denver area robberies continue to cap ... More >>

Jacob Joseph Medina, sexually violent predator: You're not on the Top 50 Most Wanted list yet, but you're getting there

Jacob Joseph Medina has several distinguishing marks...​

Samuel Crespin, number five in Denver's 50 most wanted: Busted

Samuel Crespin has just joined another list...​This past weekend, the Denver Police Department released a roster of its fifty most wanted criminals -- and since then, it's been steadily rounding up the targeted scofflaws. A quartet of the accused were hauled in almost immediately, led by Fred ... More >>

Mile High Murder, No. 5: Warrant issued for Heber Santiago Godoy in slaying of Alfred Gonzales

Heber Santiago Godoy. Update, 6:52 a.m., March 15, 2010: The Denver Police Department has named Heber Santiago Godoy the number one most wanted fugitive in the city -- and, perhaps, settled on the spelling of his name. Look below for our original item, published in June, which now features a new in ... More >>

Pot-bellied man with no neck wanted in vicious Boulder assault

This sketch doesn't make the suspect look nearly as weird as described (click to enlarge).​During the wee hours of March 6, a man was attacked in downtown Boulder by an unknown assailant, and viciously so: The victim suffered broken bones in his face and a brain hemorrhage that could have prov ... 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 >>

Stealing an ATM is harder than it looks -- and it looks pretty damn hard

"I can't think of a single thing that could go wrong with this plan..."​What's most amazing about an attempt by the man seen here to steal an ATM in Boulder by ripping it from its moorings using a stolen U-Haul truck isn't that he thought the scheme might actually work. It's that he hasn't bee ... More >>

One of Denver's Most Wanted rappers is now, uh, evidently, wanted for real it seems

​Whether they admit it or not, all artists crave notoriety. With that in mind, file this item under: Be careful what you ask for. As true as the maxim can be about there being no such thing as bad publicity, a local rapper is gaining the type of notice that he'd no doubt just as soon avoid. This m ... 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 >>

Mile High Murder, No. 38: Darryl Stricklin and Jodi Samuels identified in apparent murder-suicide in Broomfield

​The Broomfield Police Department has named a couple found dead at 2791 Calkins Place over the weekend in what looks like an all-too-typical murder suicide. He's Darryl Stricklin, 45, of Larkspur; she's Jodi Samuels, 36, of Broomfield. They were married. Not many details released yet, but in ... More >>

Had to figure a guy from Zeus Pegasus International would be freaky, but....

David McCoy.​We're about to start your day on a disturbing note. Apologies in advance. So... there's this guy, David McCoy, who says he operates a media business called (ahem) Zeus Pegasus International, and he needs somebody to run camera for him. A man from New Jersey needed the gig, so he ... 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 >>

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 >>

Is a wanted man a burglar or just a lost friend-of-Bob?

"Bob? Where are you, Bob?"​Crime must not be rampant in Boulder right now -- because the police department there has time to produce a composite sketch and send out a press release on an incident that won't exactly make aging members of the Manson family wish they'd tried something similar. Ye ... More >>

Mile High Murder, No. 10: Nadine Nicole Montoya now wanted in 6th Avenue and Broadway hit and run

Nadine Nicole Montoya. Following a May 29 hit-and-run that killed 49-year-old Lillian Verdonkschot near a Burger King in the vicinity of West 6th Avenue and Broadway, the Denver Police Department announced the arrest of a suspect named Dawn Marie Gonzales -- but a few days later, Gonzales was relea ... More >>

Mile High Murder, No. 7: Reward offered in murder of Jacob Medina

Jacob Medina. The Denver Police Department is offering a reward, and releasing more information, about the murder of Jacob Medina, whose body was found in a field at the intersection of Arizona Avenue and Pecos Street on May 31. Apparently, Medina was at a party nearby when a fight took place, inj ... 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: Watch your wallets and purses in Lakewood, Boulder

A suspect in a Boulder identity-theft case. Yesterday, the police departments in Lakewood and Boulder put out warnings about wallet thefts within minutes of each other. Seventeen wallet thefts have taken place in Lakewood since February 1, while Boulder is looking for purse snatchers in two specifi ... 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 >>

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