Unfortunately, road rage incidents aren’t exactly rare in these parts. But the one involving Boulder’s Gary Strand is unique in our experience. That’s because his arrest on suspicion of felony menacing involves him allegedly hurling a pecan pie. No, we’re not making this up. According to 7News, the incident took place…
In a move that could have resounding consequences for corrections practices and the for-profit prison industry in particular, a Denver federal judge has refused to dismiss a lawsuit filed by nine federal immigrant detainees, who allege that a private prison contractor forced them to perform maintenance and cleaning jobs for…
The FBI has already identified 109 victims of Lucas Chansler, who’s been convicted in regard to what the feds describe as “an extortion scheme to produce child pornography.” But they think there are more. A lot more. According to court testimony, Chansler targeted 350 minors in 26 states, three Canadian…
In May, we told you about the arrest of Kyle Moore in Greeley after a police chase that got underway after Officer Jobe Costa fired a shot at Moore’s vehicle. A followup report featured commentary from Moore’s mother, Renee, who was highly critical of the police response in the case — including…
Yesterday was a busy day for Matthew Burry. He appeared in court after being formally charged with child abuse resulting in death. The victim was his four-and-a-half-month-old son, Dominic. Meanwhile, a report revealed that Burry is a registered sex offender whose parole was revoked last year. As noted in his…
Back in January, we noted that the Denver Police Department had started posting stupid criminal stories on its Facebook page, and shared some of the funniest examples. Since our original post, the DPD definitely hasn’t run short of material. Indeed, the department has shared a whole new batch of tales in which…
We at Westword love Capitol Hill’s Nob Hill Inn. The venerable watering hole was the subject of a feature in 2009, the same year we named it Best Dive in our Best of Denver issue. The venue also ranked highly in our 2014 roundup of best dive bars — and a few months…
A few months back, Evans-based Jenessa Rosenbach posted the following on her Facebook page: “Is every man on this planet on a fucking dating website! Losing hope there are good men out there. Is the man not being on dating websites really that big of a request lol. Can’t you…
This past month, John Bowlen, son of Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, was busted on a domestic violence beef that involved booze and whippets. He also told the 911 dispatcher that he not only owned the Broncos personally (he doesn’t), but also claimed to be the “blood of the city” in…
The daughter of Kathleen and Kenny Sanchez may be alive today because Kenny hit her in public when she was three-years-old. This may sound like a strange statement, but the facts of the case, as spelled out in an arrest affidavit on view below, provide a strong argument for it…
It was a grisly discovery. Patricia Richmond, 23, was found dead at a home owned by her future in-laws in Routt County, not far from Steamboat Springs. She was tied up and face down — and at this writing. At this writing, it’s unclear how Richmond died. But as those…
In 2008, the Denver Post published an article set at East Colfax’s Sand & Sage under the banner “Families Reach Last-Stop Motel.” Sadly, this headline proved to be prophetic in the case of a woman in her twenties. She’s dead and the person who shot her is on the loose at this writing. Here’s…
“Brett Ryan Mosher is 27 years-old and is a Parker resident.” He was arrested by the Parker Police Department for “Soliciting for Child Prostitution after engaging in communication with the intent to engage in sexual acts with a child.” “Also as a part of the April operation effort, 31 year-old…
It sounds a bit like the Dave Chappelle sketch about a blind white supremacist who doesn’t realize he’s actually black. But according to police, it actually happened in Colorado Springs. That’s where members of a historically black church have been terrorized for weeks by racist messages referencing the Klu Klux Klan…
Back in March, we told you about the arrest of Sky Wodraska. The Breckenridge man was busted for attempted murder, assault, kidnapping and child abuse, with one of the victims being a fourteen-year-old girl who reportedly greeted the officer who rescued her after being stabbed with these words: “Don’t let…
Back in October 2014, we told you about the arrest of Scot Copher for allegedly trying to hire a fellow prisoner to kill a teenager he’d abused for years. Not long before, another prisoner, Christian Harvey, had been acquitted of a similar hit scheme hatched behind bars. Not Copher. He’s…
Last week, we shared body camera footage of Trinidad Officer Ron Arlint killing Todd Dye, a wanted man hiding in a supposedly abandoned trailer. In that case, the video exonerated Arlint, since it showed Dye pulling a weapon and the officer returning fatal fire. A new body camera clip out…
Drug warriors hated Amendment 64, a 2012 measure that aimed to legalize limited recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. But A64’s passage hardly struck a fatal blow against the War on Drugs, as a pair of events last week demonstrate. On Friday, the United Nations issued its 2015 World Drug Report,…
One of the selling points for pedicabs is that people who’ve overindulged can use them to travel safely from place to place. But that wasn’t the case for one Denver woman. After passing out in a pedicab, she awoke semi-nude in a downtown alley to discover that she’d been sexually…
Last August, Denver mayor Michael Hancock and Denver Police Chief Robert White appeared on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show to tout the use of body cameras. Now, an incident in Trinidad provides a particularly vivid reason why municipalities should welcome body cameras, rather than opposing them. The body-camera video from the…
Today brings word that Dustin Diamond, the actor who will forever be known as Screech from Saved by the Bell, will serve four months in jail for a barroom stabbing in Wisconsin. This news, and the fact that the incident took place in Wisconsin, calls to mind Diamond’s bad behavior in…
Marijuana’s social effects on Colorado have been routinely debated since recreational sales began in 2014, so a group of students at Metropolitan State University of Denver decided to study city crime and homeless numbers after commercial pot’s inaugural year. Presented yesterday in room 420 of MSU’s Student Success Building, the…
