Update, 10:30 a.m.: The man who allegedly killed three others in a Longmont home yesterday and then shot himself had been released from jail a few hours before the shooting, according to the Weld County Sheriff's Office. Daniel Sanchez, 31, reportedly showed up to the home where his ex-girlfriend wa ... More >>
In November 2011, we told you about the murder of Thomas Bashline, a sometime trainer for the Harlem Globetrotters. Just under a year later, Draton Mares, 24, has been convicted of first-degree murder in the crime, which took place after a relationship that began more than a year earlier with a Cra ... More >>
Today's nominee in the tightly contested "Worst Friend Ever" category is Alan Glen Smith, who has a very good chance of a hefty stretch in the hoosgow for one of the creepiest schemes in recent memory. The plan is said to have involved drugging a pal so that he could sexually assault the man's unde ... More >>
Thomas Bashline.Update: On November 4, Thomas Bashline, a 42-year-old who occasionally worked as a trainer for the Harlem Globetrotters, was found murdered in his Frederick home. Speculation about a motive included allusions to a Bashline side business testing athletes for performance enhanci ... More >>
Brett Reese.Earlier this year, Greeley-Evans school board member Brett Reese received Shmuck of the Week honors for being a gun-totin' hater of Martin Luther King, Jr. But that's only the tip of his shmuckiness according to his fellow board members, who've censured him after accusations aros ... More >>
Ken Buck.In 2008, the Weld County Sheriff's Office raided Amalia's Translation and Tax Service in Greeley as part of Operations Numbers Game, an effort to bust identity thieves who were also undocumented immigrants. The ACLU filed suit over the action -- and this week, Weld District Attorney/ ... More >>
"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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
The long arm of the law reached across half a continent to grab Marcello Maldonado-Perez.More evidence that the three most important letters in cold cases these days are DNA -- the apparent solving of a Weld County murder dating back to 1977. In August of that year, Mary Pierce, 22, was abdu ... More >>
"C'mere, Trigger."Zoning disputes: Not an inherently fascinating subject for folks not involved with them -- and often not even then. But the interest level perks up when wholesale horse assassination is thrown into the mix. According to the Weld County Sheriff's Office, Trenton Parker recen ... More >>
Yesterday's New York Times switched the national spotlight onto a fascinating story based in Greeley. "Paying Taxes, and Fearing Deportation" focuses on Amalia's Translation and Tax Services, a business that has prepared tax returns for a mostly Hispanic clientele since the '90s. Last October, the ... More >>
A year of dysfunctional family values -- and missing panties.
