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Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats
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Aurora murders up 41 percent even without including victims of Century 16 shooting

In sharing preliminary 2012 crime states, the Aurora Police Department faces an interesting dilemma -- how to process the July 20 massacre at the Aurora Century 16, which led to a dozen deaths and scores of injuries. APD data shows major crimes in the community went up slightly if the theater shooti ... More >>

Wayne Lufkin, missing Springs man and attempted murderer, busted in Denver

Update: On Sunday, as we note in our original coverage below, Wayne Lufkin, 74, disappeared from an assisted-care facility, after which authorities discovered he had warrants on him in Colorado and Oregon. Now comes word that Lufkin has been found in Denver and is currently cooling his heels in anot ... More >>

Brooke Mueller, Shmuck: Will she out-Charlie Sheen her ex in Aspen?

Brooke Mueller.​It can't have been easy to be married to Charlie Sheen: Tiger Blood just isn't the basis for a happy union. But that doesn't excuse Brooke Mueller for her #winning cocaine arrest last weekend near the Belly Up in Aspen -- the scene of another Shmucky episode just two week ago - ... More >>

Occupy Denver: Police track down protesters' identities using YouTube (VIDEOS)

It's not a new tactic, but for some, it might be a surprising one: One of the ways the Denver Police Department has checked the identities of those faced with warrants for Occupy Denver is through online archival footage, including the average YouTube search. Previously anonymous protesters can be - ... More >>

Zeds Dead, but the band's biggest fan, Asa Robinson, is a shmuck

Asa Robinson really really, REALLY, REALLY wanted to go to the Zeds Dead concert in Aspen last Tuesday, so badly, in fact, that police say he called in a bomb threat to the concert venue after he couldn't buy tickets to a sold-out show. The goal of the bomb threat, it appears, wasn't to exact retrib ... More >>

Occupy Denver: Corey Donahue, Sean Driggers & Brandon Sexton's felony charges -- cops' side

Big pics below.​The Denver District Attorney's Office has formally announced felony counts against a trio of Occupy Denver protesters: Corey Donahue, Sean Driggers and Brandon Sexton. What led to these charges? Denver Police statements of probable cause on view below offer the cops' side of t ... More >>

Capitol Hill assaults up 30% as victim wonders where cops went (Hint: Occupy Denver)

Greschler.​The number of late-night attacks and robberies on the streets of Capitol Hill is up significantly over last year's pace, raising questions about the safety level in the city's core and whether police are cutting back on patrols of the area to deal with Occupy Denver protesters and t ... More >>

Occupy Denver profile: John Sexton says he was falsely accused of felony assault on cop

John Sexton.​John Sexton turned 33 this morning, and his birthday gifts have so far been slim: He was released from prison a couple hours ago, and his first birthday wish was from someone in a nearby holding cell. After a tense conversation with his mother, she, too, wished him a happy one. Pe ... More >>

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Complete Grindworks 2010
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Danielle Blankenship: Charge for killing cat by blowing heroin smoke in its face dropped

Blankenship.​Last month, Danielle Blankenship, 21, was accused of misdemeanor animal cruelty for allegedly killing her cat by blowing heroin smoke in its face -- and Boulder authorities talked about upping the charge to a felony if any heroin turned up in the cat's system. But none did, prompt ... More >>

Christy Ausmus, town prosecutor, pounds man with nine assault priors in youth baseball brawl

Christy Ausmus.​As a town prosecutor, Castle Rock's Christy Ausmus is tasked with trying to earn convictions against suspects. Now, however, she's on the other side of a criminal charge. Ausmus and another couple are looking at assault and disorderly conduct allegations in a knock-down, drag-o ... More >>

Reader: Linking sex assault, marijuana ban in legalization campaign demeans rape victims

Toni Fox.​Local voters are likely to consider at least two 2012 ballot initiatives to legalize marijuana for adult recreational use -- one from Legalize2012.com, another via a group featuring SAFER's Mason Tvert. And these two outfits have very different views judging by a Legalize2012.com re ... More >>

Chopsticks & Sushi owner sentenced to six years in prison

Yan De Yang, from bar owner to behind bars.​Last Friday, Denver District Court Judge Edward Bronfin stuck former Chopsticks & Sushi owner Yan De Yang with a six-year prison sentence for the shooting death of Lloyd Running Bear, who'd come to the restaurant to collect a football gambling bet fr ... 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 >>

Drunken dad at McDonald's gets tasered: A strange but true story from 2010

Don't taze me, bro!​Westword's annual Strange but True edition will hit newsstands (and this website) on December 30, featuring the weirdest and wackiest Colorado stories from 2010. Remember Jihad Jamie? How about the guy who re-labeled Gatorade bottles with pictures of Tiger Woods? And then t ... More >>

Christopher Hanson: Greeley gang member guilty of kidnapping, sex assault, hiring hit man

Larger photo below.​In June, we told you about Christopher Hanson, a Greeley gang member suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman -- and then trying to hire someone to kill her. Last night, a Weld County jury found him guilty on six counts for crimes dating back to December of ... More >>

Ethan Wade Surrell: FBI puts out two-state alert for alleged federal officer assaulter

See full-size photos below.​Ethan Wade Surrell, aka Nathan Surrell, has got the feds' attention in both Wyoming and Colorado. The FBI has just issued a two-state alert for the 24-year old from Wyoming's Wind River Indian Reservation, where Surrell allegedly assaulted a federal officer. Look b ... More >>

Christopher Hanson, Jesse Rodriguez busted in alleged murder-for-hire plot

Christopher Hanson.​If the Weld County Sheriff's Office is correct, Christopher Hanson, 21, has been a busy -- and bad -- man. He was already in custody on kidnapping and sexual assault beefs. But now, he's also suspected in a murder-for-hire plot that led to the more recent arrest of Jesse R ... More >>

Brandon Smith charged with third-degree assault in pinky-shredding iPad theft

Brandon Smith allegedly took off with more than an iPad.​Most snatch-and-grab crimes don't get nearly as much attention as the one Brandon Smith is accused of committing at the Cherry Creek Shopping Center earlier this month. But he made national news because his alleged attempt to steal a tr ... More >>

Harold "Nicky" Nicholson's murder has been solved -- but Boulder County still has fourteen cold homicide cases that haven't heated up yet

"Some of these cases are even cold by my standards."​This week, the Boulder County Sheriff's Office revealed that they'd closed the 1970 murder of Harold "Nicky" Nicholson. Not that the alleged slayer -- Jake Dwight Jones, Nicholson's father in law -- will be prosecuted for the crime. Investig ... More >>

Mile High Murder, No. 45. Chopsticks & Sushi owner Yan De Yang formally charged with murdering Lloyd Runningbear

Chopsticks & Sushi owner Yan De Yang won't want seconds of this.​On October 23, Chopsticks & Sushi owner Yan De Yang was arrested for investigation of first-degree murder in regard to a shooting that took place at his restaurant during the previous afternoon, causing areas near the busy 16th S ... More >>

Stabbing suspect claims he was just acting out Robin Hood: Men in Tights. Riiiiiiight.

Leo Beitz​When 20-year-old Leo Beitz visited an old friend in Boulder last weekend, they did what old friends do: Went out. Got drunk. Came home. Played video games. But at some point in the night, Beitz, for reasons that remain unclear, did some things old friends usually don't do: Grabbed a ... More >>

Local "Beauty Guru" Ty Tomlinson arrested for allegedly beating and raping a former employee

Ty Tomlinson: best hair in Denver County Jail ​Denver hair stylist Ty Tomlinson, owner of Blanc salon in the Golden Triangle, was arrested Monday on charges of sexual assault and domestic violence. Police allege that the thirty-year-old physically abused a former employee on several occasions ... More >>

Colorado Crimes: An invitation to roll over on Daniel Evaristo-Hernandez-Ramos, accused child molester

Daniel Evaristo-Hernandez-Ramos.​We've been taught from an early age not to squeal on people. Doing so is seen as such a negative that the action's been given a number of entirely perjorative names: "rat," "fink" and so on. But given the crimes for which twenty-year-old Daniel Evaristo-Hernand ... More >>

Mile High Murder, No. 33: Rueben Payan-Sigala looks shocked to be busted regarding a homicide at 3240 W. Alameda

Rueben Payan-Sigala.​This is one of those a-picture's-worth-a-thousand-words moments. Which is nice, because I'll be able to cut back on typing. According to the Denver Police Department, officers responded to an August 9 report of a stabbing at 3240 W. Alameda. A wounded man found there late ... More >>

Mile High Murder, No. 24: A kidnapping in Denver, a body in Commerce City

View Larger Map (Trouble viewing this map? Click "View Larger Map") Perhaps they were trying to pin it on Ani DiFranco? The Denver Police is investigating a kidnapping/murder at 3602 North Leyden, which they've connected to a body dumped in Commerce City -- where the police were busy enough this ... More >>

Crime on the rise in Broomfield

An image from the Broomfield Police Department website. Crime of all stripes tends to ratchet upward during difficult economic conditions -- and that's proven to be the case in Broomfield according to statistics assembled by the community's police department. During the first six months of this yea ... More >>

Colorado Crimes: Epic brawl at Overland High School

"I wish I'd gotten a piece of that action...." Plenty of metro-area schools have shut down for the summer -- but there was plenty of action at Overland High School this afternoon. According to the Aurora Police Department, more than fifty high-school age folks took part in at least three separate f ... More >>

Glacially paced investigation into DNC visitor Gabriel Pico's death finally moving forward

Former Angellic Rage Frontman Killed in Las Vegas

Will the Real Brad Braxton Please Stand Up?

More on the Ward Churchill-Daily Camera Dust-up

Civil Service

Mary Starkey's trial is postponed.

Mugged and Stabbed

On the Case

Brenda Denton was bludgeoned to death in her Capitol Hill apartment two years ago. Denver police finally have a suspect -- and it's not Brent J. Brents.

The Mouth That Roared

Nando Mondragon is going to put Denver on the hip-hop fashion map. But first, he has to get out of jail.

Girl Fight

Snow Job

Will the real Bobby Fenton please stand up?

Psychic Ills

Monday, May 1, hi-dive, 720-570-4500.

A Vicious Cycle

His parents had high hopes for Contrell Townsend. But the seventeen-year-old wound up stabbed to death -- like both of his grandfathers.

Best Use of Bubble Gum by an Actress

Annie Dwyer, Take Me Out to the Ball Game, Heritage Square Music Hall

Left for Dead

When the Aurora cops finished investigating the crime scene, they’d missed one crucial piece of evidence: Alan Conner’s body.

This Property Is Condemned

Everyone in the neighborhood knows the Walkers. Most wish they didn't.

The Burning Boy

Why would a group of teenagers in Colorado Springs set another kid on fire? Because he asked.

Sliced and Dicey

Did one Denver cop stab another? The victim denies it. Welcome to "Pierregate."

GETTING IN HIS LICKS

AN ELDERLY MACHINIST PUMMELS HIS WIFE'S LOVER AND SWEARS HE DID NOTHING WRONG.

A REAL BACK-SLAPPER

A FAMILIAR INMATE LANDS IN THE MIDDLE OF YET ANOTHER PRISON SPAT.

PATIENTS EXHAUSTED

BLACK GAY ACTIVIST STEVE ARRINGTON MAKES A STORMY EXIT FROM AN URBAN LEAGUE APARTMENT COMPLEX FOR PEOPLE WITH AIDS.

THE FIGHT OF THEIR LIVES