In January 2014, we shared a pot entitled “The ABCs of Denver’s Unregistered Sex Offenders,” which offered an overview of the issue in the city. Since there were more than 100 unregistered sex offenders on Denver’s most wanted list, we featured a representative sample: one from each letter of the…
Anthony Martinez looks mighty benign in the Facebook photo above. But investigators with the Colorado Springs Police Department, as well as law enforcers in at least six other states, fear he’s anything but. Martinez, 25, has been arrested on suspicion of what the CSPD describes as “an unlawful, sexual relationship…
Over the past month or so, numerous drivers in northern Colorado have had their windows shattered — and one driver, Cori Romero, was shot in the neck as she motored down Interstate 25 in Larimer County. These incidents remain unsolved — and now, John Jacoby, 48, is dead after having been…
Abigail Cozad had a tough life, owing to a traumatic brain injury suffered as a result of an accident involving a drunk driver when she was just fifteen. Now, Cozad is dead, victim of a homicide. Her body was found in an Adams County motel. Now, the Adams County Sheriff’s…
Have you seen a black 2006 Toyota Tacoma like the one above, sporting Colorado license plate 966-MFH? If so, call the police in Denver or Aurora and get the hell out of its way, because the driver of the vehicle was allegedly at the center of multiple crimes yesterday, including a…
Police responded when Donna Mount died in April. But there were no criminal charges in the immediate aftermath of her death — only tears. More than two months later, however, a most unlikely suspect — Lee Keyser, 67 — has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in the case. Why?…
Editor’s note: The memorandum below was found, crumpled into a densely compressed ball, in a men’s-room stall in the Arapahoe County courthouse. We were unable to verify the authenticity of its contents by press time. But in this age of instant communication of unfiltered, user-generated content, what the heck. To:…
Last December, we told you about the arrest of Gregory Kilcollins for shooting up a Wheat Ridge apartment complex and seriously injuring a man in the process. Turns out, though, that the only crime for which Kilcollins was guilty was possessing a weapon as a previous offender. Prosecutors now believe…
The Tinder phone app has helped bring a lot of couples together. But not every right swipe is, well, the right swipe. The arrest affidavit naming Darren Auger — it’s on view below in its entirety — is a case in point. What began as a perfectly pleasant get-together ended…
Jake Lloyd, who starred as the young Darth Vader in 1999’s Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace, hasn’t acted for years, but he remains one of the most Googled celebrities with Colorado ties. Last December, we featured Lloyd on this subject and noted that most people searching for Lloyd wanted…
Del Dawan Bankett, Jr. is only 24-years-old, but he’s scheduled to spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. And the facts of the case against him, as laid out by the 18th Judicial District DA’s Office, could hardly be colder or more brutal. Prosecutors…
To our knowledge, Westword has never before published a post about cannibalistic rats. But that’s appropriate, because we’re guessing the officers who discovered hundreds of rats, both dead and alive, in the garage attached to a marijuana grow house hadn’t seen anything quite like what they discovered Wednesday, either. About 10…
Today, Specialist Jeffrey Page, a soldier based at Fort Carson, is expected to be sentenced for the 2014 slaying of a fellow soldier, nineteen-year-old Specialist Adrian Perkins. Page, who’s originally from Ohio, insisted that the killing of Perkins, who he shot in the head as the latter was bringing him…
The Boulder DA did not file a murder charge against Dynel Lane.
Four dozen state inmates who are serving sentences of life without parole (LWOP) for crimes they committed when they were teens got a jolt of hope three years ago, when the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that such mandatory sentencing schemes for juveniles were unconstitutional. Those hopes got crushed this month…
Why is the Denver Police Department singing the praises of Denver B-cycle? Because a cop recently used one of the ubiquitous red riders to track down a wanted suspect who rabbited when officers moved in. On Wednesday, June 3, according to an account on the Denver Police Department Facebook page,…
A jury deliberated less than an hour last Thursday following a three-day trial in Denver District Court, and afterward, Hasan Jones was acquitted in a drive-by shooting case. But that doesn’t mean he’s the man shot almost two years ago by gang member turned anti-gang activist (and Westword cover-story subject) Terrance…
Amid the ongoing trial of Aurora theater shooter James Holmes, the court hearing the case has released a number of previously unavailable documents to the public. The items include a notebook Holmes sent to psychiatrist Dr. Lynne Fenton, which featured a section entitled “Insights Into the Mind of Madness.” The…
Willie Clark could get a new trial in the 2007 murder of Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams. The Colorado Court of Appeals has ordered a hearing to determine if juror misconduct tainted Clark’s first trial in 2010. One of the jurors admitted that he and some of the others conducted…
Isaiah Hunter wasn’t only sentenced for one horrible crime this week. No, the 24-year-old received punishment for three — incidents so disturbing that they could add up to a life sentence. Assorted arrest documents on view below offer strong arguments for describing Hunter as a serial rapist — an extraordinarily…
The photo above is a surveillance image taken on Sunday, June 7, at Tampa International Airport. On the right is Charlie Enice Brooks, who’d just traveled from her home in Fort Morgan to Florida for a visit with Joseph Pope, described as her childhood friend and sometime boyfriend. But the reunion…
As we’ve reported, there have been plenty of police shootings in Colorado of late. Indeed, there was one at 3:20 p.m. yesterday on the 111000 block of Huron Street, when an officer with the Northglenn Police Department shot a man who allegedly had opened fire on cops responding to a…
