Last week, we told you how prominent pot advocate Mason Tvert, head of Safer Alternative For Enjoyable Recreation (SAFER), wanted the mayor-appointed Denver Marijuana Policy Review Panel, on which he sits, to expel one of its members: Lieutenant Ernie Martinez, head of the Colorado Drug Investigators Association (CDIA). Tvert called…
Tomorrow, a jury of eighteen Denver County residents will begin to hear evidence that Willie Clark killed Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams on New Year’s Day 2007. They’ll also hear evidence that he didn’t, in a trial that’s expected to take two weeks and include testimony from convicted gang members,…
Back in December, Family Ties moppet turned accused assaulter Brian Bonsall made our Busted Former Child Star Mug Shot Hall of Fame thanks to the image seen here — and his arrest back then apparently whetted his appetite for even more interactions with law enforcement. On Friday, he was back…
Colorado’s medical marijuana industry has been compared to the Gold Rush of 150 years ago, but so far, there’s been no rush for dispensaries to get legal in Denver. Under Council Bill 34, a dispensary must have a city sales-tax license and also apply for a specific dispensary license by…
Do Denver police detectives hide evidence in secret folders? Lawyers for accused murderer Willie Clark say they do. Other defense attorneys agree. But prosecutors do not; they say attorneys regularly have access to police files. The issue came up yesterday at a pre-trial hearing in connection with Clark’s case. Clark,…
In an update published just over six hours ago about the murder of sixteen-year-old Nathan Bozonier — the item that concerned the discovery of an aluminum baseball bat covered with graffiti-like markings that may have been used in the crime — Thornton Police Department spokesman Officer Matt Barnes insisted that…
This week’s decision by the Colorado Limited Gaming Control Commissionto allow casinos to pay 6-5 on blackjack isn’t exactly a shocker. The gaming regulators aim to please, and the casino operators know who their customers are and what they want. Their customers are rubes and feebs, and they want to…
One reason roller derby can seem campy is the nicknames the skaters give themselves, which are sometimes witty and sometimes cute and sometimes downright pee-your-pants intimidating. Though some ultra-competitive skaters have abandoned their silly derby names and eyebrow-raising uniforms when they compete for national rankings, a concept explored in this…
Three Denver blogs, handpicked for you. Denver Stiffs’ Andrew Feinstein calls the Nuggets’ overtime victory over the Cavs in Cleveland, with Melo hitting the winning shot with only seconds on the clock, an “instant classic.” Bet it made George Karl feel better, too. Coyote Gulch brings us the latest snowpack…
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…
The arrest of Highlands Ranch’s Chris Bartkowicz after he showed off his medical marijuana grow to a reporter at 9News has prompted complaints from the likes of Sensible Colorado’s Brian Vicente, who helped organize a protest prior to yesterday’s appearance by President Barack Obama, as well as comments by U.S…
You might recall that last week we called out cancer-fakers for this award, inspired by the guilty plea of the very abhorrent Tausha Marsh. But most people who ask and get our support have cancer that’s very real, as we were reminded this week when we learned that Nuggets coach…
#6 of the 22 Major Arcana: Dan Maes, the Hierophant…..
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. Investigators discovered that he died in 1979 after assuming a new identity,…
With medical marijuana legislation still pending at the State Capitol, individual Colorado communities are left to deal with the weed issue as best they can, despite how sticky it can get. Case in point: Windsor, where the town board is fighting to close a dispensary called MediGrow even as two…
The murder early Monday morning of Thornton’s Nathan Bozonier, 16, didn’t take place in isolation. The Thornton Police Department says Bozonier was hit by a car, then struck by an aluminum bat while surrounded by a group of people who were run off by a number of others. In the…
Supporters of Andrew Romanoff’s senate campaign held a rally for their guy yesterday that was considerably lower profile than the one staged for his opponent, Michael Bennet — an event starring a certain President Barack Obama. But while Romanoff backers like Polly Baca fault the president for picking sides before…
Talk about the planets coming into alignment. Yesterday afternoon, during an appearance at the Fillmore Auditorium to pitch for Senator Michael Bennet, President Barack Obama warmed up the crowd by gabbing about medal-winning Olympians with Colorado connections, including snowboarding wizard Shaun White. Obama noted that he not only wonders how…
Among the many nicknames given bank robbers by the FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force (profiled in this Westword feature), the $83 Bandit may be one of the strangest. According to a Joel Warner blog about another wanted man with a clever moniker, the Shaggy Bandit, the $83 Bandit…
Denver Post owner/publisher Dean Singleton seems to have trouble with the word bankruptcy, especially when it pertains to his company, MediaNews Group. But he’s extremely loquacious about other topics, as he’s proving this morning during an extended appearance on the morning show of KHOW’s Peter Boyles. (He’s still chatting at…
Almost two years ago — fittingly, on April Fool’s Day — Sean Harrington filed a complaint with the Colorado Office of Attorney Regulation Counsel requesting an investigation of U.S. District Judge Edward Nottingham on the grounds of moral turpitude. “Judge Naughty” had been much in the news that spring over…
One blog about Denver. Two blogs about Denver. Three blogs about Denver. In noting that Brandon Marshall, Elvis Dumervil and D.J. Williams are all listed as potential defense witnesses in the upcoming trial of Willie Clark, who’s accused of murdering Darrent Williams, Jon Krause at Broncos Zone writes, “We have…
