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Britni Bunn Facebooked margarita photos hours before fatal drunk-driving crash

At this writing, Britni Bunn's Facebook page is down -- which makes perfect sense under the circumstances. After all, Bunn has been arrested after allegedly driving drunk while going the wrong way on the Boulder Turnpike and causing a crash that killed one man and seriously injured two others. And ... More >>

Austin Sigg, Jessica Ridgeway's accused killer: New mug shot, new cell -- in adult jail

Update: Headlines noting that seventeen-year-old Austin Sigg has been charged as an adult in the kidnapping and killing of Jessica Ridgeway, a ten-year-old Westminster girl, are a bit redundant, since documents to that effect were filed last month; see previous coverage below. But his court visit ye ... More >>

Jessica Ridgeway case: Link to earlier Ketner Lake assault attempt confirmed

Update: In yesterday's post about the search for the kidnapper and killer of Jessica Ridgeway, a ten-year-old Westminster girl who disappeared on her way to school on October 5 (see it below), we reported that inside sources had confirmed a DNA match between the latest crime and a previous assault a ... More >>

Jessica Ridgeway case: Online supporters gather at Justice for Jessica!

As the Jessica Ridgeway case continues its transition from a missing persons case to a search for her kidnapper and killer, the online community that's sprung up to support the family of the ten-year-old Westminster girl is undergoing changes as well, with a new Facebook page becoming an online gath ... More >>

Drug checkpoint on U.S. 36 to Boulder nabs nearly a pound of marijuana

Last August, we told you about a drug enforcement checkpoint on I-25 by the Westminster Police Department. This narcotics-centric variation on DUI checkpoints moved to a new location Tuesday night: U.S. Highway 36 to Boulder. And it spawned a felony arrest, for possession of nearly a pound's worth o ... More >>

Drug enforcement checkpoint on I-25: Five tickets, two arrests out of 32 stops

​Update:On August 9, the Westminster Police Department manned a "DRUG ENFORCEMENT CHECKPOINT" on I-25. Last week, WPD Investigator Trevor Materasso confirmed the operation, but didn't have many details. Now, however, he's able to provide the specifics. Officers issued tickets or made arrests i ... More >>

Joshua Wittig sentenced to 10 years for heavily drugged crash that killed John Page Hines

Joshua Wittig.​Opponents of a Westminster Police drug-enforcement checkpoint note correctly that alcohol-related crashes like Department of Corrections officer Jason Ulrich's are far more prevalent those those involving narcotics. But the latter do happen, as shown by the case of Joshua Witti ... More >>

Reader: Drivers should not cooperate with drug enforcement checkpoints

​Our post about a new approach by the Westminster Police Department involving a drug enforcement checkpoint on I-25 last week riled up plenty of readers. Here's one example: a call for civil disobedience.

Teaching cops how to de-stress for success

Eric Eugene Lyerly busted for murder after dead woman found in Westminster apartment (6)

Big pic below.​At 7 a.m. yesterday, the members of the Westminster Police Department arrived at 8290 Federal Boulevard on a welfare check, but nothing seemed amiss. The story is different when they were called back at 11:37 a.m. This time, they found a dead woman and Eric Eugene Lyerly, 52, wh ... More >>

Richard Paul Stewart hospitalized in Texas following Norma Stewart's murder (67)

Big pic below.​Update: We're getting more information about the arrest of Richard Paul Stewart, a person of interest in the slaying of his ex-wife, Norma Stewart, at the Edward Jones branch in Westminster. Granted, some of that info is a bit garbled. However, it's clear that Stewart is current ... More >>

Christopher Mainock accused of homicide after failed suicide in Westminster car (66)

Big pic below.​Update: Last week, two people were found in a car parked on a Westminster street: one dead, one wounded. Now, the Westminster Police Department has shared its view about how they got that way -- a failed murder-suicide, with Christopher Thomas Mainock, 22, wielding the weapon.

Tiffany Nicole Weaver, 7 others, indicted for alleged meth-fueled auto-theft ring (PHOTOS)

Big pics below.​Meth makes people do some desperate things -- like, according to a grand jury indictment aimed at Tiffany Nicole Weaver and seven others, steal vehicles from seventy different victims. Of the 103 counts, Weaver is named in 83 of them. Page down below to see mug shots of the sus ... More >>

Morgan Sellman, Aurora Police's DARE coordinator, busted for child porn

Big pic below.​Talk about a nightmare scenario for the Aurora Police Department. Not only has one of their own, Sergeant Morgan Sellman, been busted for child pornography, but his most recent assignment has been as the DARE program coordinator. Fortunately, Sellman's DARE duties haven't includ ... More >>

Heather Lopez wanted -- again -- in theft of gift cards from 11-year-old boy with Leukemia

Large photo below.​One way to make sure you get a lot of attention for a robbery: Steal Christmas gift cards from a child with leukemia. That's what Bryant Ruff and Heather Lopez were accused of doing last January, and while Ruff's already been convicted, Lopez has reportedly skipped -- and th ... More >>

Ron Rocha, Regis coach, part of 20-kilos-a-week cocaine-ring bust: See mug shots & drug photos

Large photos below.​Last month, Ron Rocha, a volunteer baseball coach for Regis University, was on the losing end of an intra-squad matchup dubbed the Fall World Series. But he suffered an even greater defeat yesterday, when he was among 35 people named by the U.S. Attorney's Office in the bus ... More >>

Robert John Burns Jr. busted for stealing drugs, gear from local fire stations

Robert John Burns Jr. had some inside dope about firefighters.​"That Fireman Who Wants Your Drugs May Not Be a Fireman," published back in February, noted that drugs had been stolen from ambulances at two Westminster fire stations, along with uniforms. Similar burglaries were reported at anoth ... More >>

Operation Fortune Cooke: Thornton Police Chief James Nursey says Dante Carbone -- Dan Tang's acquaintance -- launched weed investigation

Operation Fortune Cookie operatives raided dozens of grow houses like this -- but never found the source of the internal leak.​Ever since Northglenn Detective Daniel Joyce and Thornton Detective Robert Lopez filed a lawsuit last week alleging corruption within Operation Fortune Cookie, the new ... More >>

Hackers break into UFCW Local 7 system, send message attacking new president Kim Cordova

Not every UFCW Local 7 member is a big Kim Cordova fan.​As documented in Melanie Asmar's December feature "Can a Mild-Mannered Grocery Clerk Solve the Grocery Workers' Labor Strife?," United Food and Commercial Workers Local 7 has been rocked by a power struggle between supporters of previous ... More >>

That fireman who wants your drugs may not be a fireman

A Flickr photo"Can I see some I.D.?"​You've heard about goons who disguise themselves as police officers to make doing nasty business easier, right? Well, the men and women of the Westminster Fire Department are afraid someone with a taste for high-grade narcotics may try something similar whi ... More >>

Costco's got it all -- including a hiding place for carjacking suspects

A Flickr photoWhere good hiding places are always reasonably priced.​Last night, Westminster cops went shopping at Costco -- and wound up with a discount deal for a couple of carjacking suspects found hiding on the roof of an out building in the box store's parking lot. The drama started with ... More >>

Ol' Westminster gunfight: Two bank robbers killed, two cops shot

Deputy Chief Tim Carlson and Senior Police Officer Sean Chandler were both shot in the melee.​The explosion of violence that took place in Westminster yesterday harks back to the days when the law rode horses and gunmen died young 'n' purty. As the Westminster Police Department tells it, a th ... More >>

Mile High Murder, No. 52: Travis Neil Smith charged with road rage leading to murder one

The state aims to help Travis Neil Smith get a handle on his anger issues.​A few years back, violent road rage issues were all the rage -- and Travis Neil Smith has been accused of trying to bring them back into vogue in the most lethal way possible. According to the Westminster Police Depart ... More >>

Colorado Crimes: A bad day in Westminster for Christopher Donte Williams

Christopher Donte Williams.​It's a good indication that a temper tantrum has gotten out of control if a S.W.A.T. team is called to respond. That's what happened Saturday near 68th and Lowell to Christopher Donte Williams, age nineteen, who, for reasons not spelled out in a release from the We ... More >>

A statement from stabbing victim Dean Withers' family

Dean Withers.​Earlier today, we pointed out that the family of eighty-year-old Dean Withers, who was stabbed at a north metro King Soopers earlier this week, would be holding a press conference in Westminster; Ryan Patrick Nichols, who suffers from schizophrenia, is being held in the incident. ... More >>

Colorado Crimes: Police say this is what a guy who'd stab an 80-year-old in the back looks like

Ryan Patrick Nichols.​Some crimes are understandable -- like, say, a starving child stealing a piece of fruit. And other crimes aren't -- among them, stabbing an 80-year-old man in the back. Ryan Patrick Nichols, 26, has been accused of doing the latter, and the nastiness of the crime, which ... More >>

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