Subject: Douglas County Sheriff's Office

• Hell on Wheels

  Colorado Highways are safer now than they've been in decades. So what are drivers so mad about?

  December 3, 1998

• Off Limits

  May 20, 1999

• Rave Heart

  Sheriff's departments across Colorado choose not to remain silent about raves.

  August 24, 2000

• Call Me Crazy

  When the accused reject a not-guilty plea, Colorado's insanity law breaks down.

  January 11, 2001

• Trial and Tribulations

  Naim Amini fled Afghanistan to build a new life, a life now lost in the translation.

  November 21, 2002

• Colorado Crimes: The disadvantages of robbing someone you know

  Brandon Gaitan. According to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, Brandon Gaitan and Keith Paris II, both 19, had what must have seemed like a good idea at the time: break into the apartment of someone on vacation and do whatever for as long as they wanted. Problem is, said vacationer returned home to find them still hanging out. Gaitan and Paris reportedly responded by drawing guns, taking some shit and splitting. Problem: the victim knew who they were. And now he knows where they are -- in cu

  June 4, 2009

• Off Limits

  October 24, 2002

• For Heaven's Sake!

  This was the year many Coloradans decided to play God -- and I'm not happy about it.

  December 30, 1999

• Caught in the Net

  The Web was a pedophile's paradise -- until Mike and Cassandra Harris logged on.

  August 30, 2001

• Recreate '68 Plans to Do Just That

  October 25, 2007

• Panhandle With Care

  We're all just a home away from homeless.

  March 1, 2007

• Teachers Fret

  June 22, 2006

• Strange but True

  A year of dysfunctional family values -- and missing panties.

  December 29, 2005

• Home Sweet Clone

  Twenty-year-old Highlands Ranch has grown into a mega-planned community of mythic proportions.

  October 18, 2001

• Fortress of Solitude

  Two new county justice centers are high-tech, high-security--and designed to keep prisoners and the public in their place.

  August 6, 1998

• Do Tell

  Notorious Denver informant Mark Tibbs has finked his way through a lot of cases. But can he talk his way out of this one?

  March 27, 1997

• Off Limits

  May 2, 1996

• NO DOG HAS HIS DAY

  "SUE THE CREEP" IN THE DOG-POISONING CASE? IN COLORADO, YOU'RE BARKING UP THE WRONG TREE.

  November 15, 1995

• Mile High Murder, No. 34: Dominick Wilmer charged with vehicular homicide in deaths of Jonathan Richardson and Grace Cruthers

  View Larger Map The crash that took place during the wee hours of August 15 on Titan Road near Rampart Range Road, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click "View Larger Map"), certainly qualifies as a tragic accident. But according to the Douglas County Sheriff's Office, it was also a crime. Dominick Wilmer, 26, has been charged with two counts of vehicular homicide in the incident, which took the lives of Jonathan Richardson, 26, and Grace Cruthers, 29

  August 24, 2009

• Another marijuana-grow operation is uprooted in Pike National Forest

  Assorted agencies took down a marijuana-grow operation on Sugarloaf Mountain in July.​As smoke continues to gather over medical-marijuana operations in Colorado, local law-enforcement agencies continue to find weed-growing operations in remote locations -- and Pike National Forest appears to be a favorite. Pot worth an estimated $2.5 million was seized during a Sugarloaf Mountain raid in July; click here to view a slideshow of images from the haul, courtesy of the Jefferson County Sheriff'

  September 14, 2009