Last August, we told you about the shocking allegations against Kelsy Newell-Skinner, 21, who claimed to have awakened after heavy drinking to find her two-month-old baby badly beaten. The child, Natalee Hurst-Skinner, later died from her injuries. Afterward, Natalee’s father told a local TV station that Denver Human Services hadn’t…
In March 2014, we told you about the arrest of George Allen IV, aka “Slim Ryder,” in connection with the murder of Kurt Levias, 21, outside a hip-hop show at the Bluebird Theater ten years earlier. More than a year later, Allen has been sentenced in the slaying, and an…
Before he opened fire in a sold-out Aurora movie theater, James Holmes planned the massacre in a notebook. Photocopies of the pages of that notebook were released today as part of his ongoing trial. On one page, Holmes wrote that a movie theater would be a better venue for mass…
At this hour, officers with the Lakewood Police Department, including members of the SWAT team, are sweeping the Denver West Inn. They’re reportedly searching for a suspect in a May 15 incident originally called a “suspicious death.” The cops subsequently confirmed that the case was being investigated as a homicide. However,…
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office doesn’t describe a fire started at the Colorado Muslim Society as a hate crime — at least not yet. But the folks at the society certainly do, even though the woman seen in surveillance footage around the time the flames came to life wears what…
With suspected gang-related shootings spiking in Denver and Aurora, officials are doing all they can to prevent the Summer of 2015 from turning into Summer of Violence II. Or Summer of Violence III…or Summer of Violence IV. But an incident that took place on the tail end of Memorial Day Weekend, traditionally…
Everybody knows that crime doesn’t pay — at least, not in any of the 129 episodes of Dragnet available on Netflix. But one notorious state inmate has figured out how to make the risky business of breaking out of prison pay off. According to the terms of a hush-hush settlement…
At this writing, photos of seventeen-year-old Grand Junction resident David Gaines have yet to surface. However, the other images shared her offer an indication of the damage he left behind before being shot and killed by police in Grand Junction yesterday. The situation allegedly began with a fight between Gaines…
A couple in North Carolina has been arrested in Colorado Springs for the death of her eighteen-month-old baby, Violet Sky Cortez. The night before, the mother, twenty-year-old Vanessa Sanchez, had reportedly attended a support group for parents who’d lost a child — and when she was taken into custody, she and…
If the arrest of eighteen-year-old Brittany Lynn Storms for allegedly entering a home illegally while “out of it on drugs” sounds familiar, it should. Earlier this month, we noted that Boulder County District Attorney Stan Garnett had decided not to criminally charge a homeowner who fatally shot Roberto Zamroa, a nineteen-year-old…
Daycare facilities have a number of methods to get their charges to fall asleep during nap time: lowering the blinds, playing soothing music and more. But police believe Dedrie Womack, 44, took things a step too far — by giving as many as 35 children a sleep aid. Details below…
Is gang violence flaring up in Aurora? On Monday, we told you about three shootings over the weekend, two of them in Aurora, and noted speculation that the incidents could be gang-related. Now, three suspects are in custody in regard to a shooting that followed a fight on an RTD…
A new report on the use of solitary confinement in America’s prisons and jails, highly critical of the practice and challenging many common myths about who’s in lockdown and why, looks closely at recent reform efforts in the Colorado prison system and concludes that many inmates can be removed from…
Unfortunately, weekend shootings that may be gang-related are becoming more commonplace in the Denver metro area of late. After the previous weekend, we told you about a shooting in Park Hill that looked like it might have a gang connection. The Denver Police Department has not announced any arrests in…
As documented on his Facebook page, John White is a veteran who’s participated in mixed martial arts bouts. Now, however, he’s in the fight of his life — and so is the two-year-old son of his girlfriend, who’s in critical condition at last report. White, meanwhile, is under arrest on…
My fiance Austin O’Loughlin died last night at 2 a.m. and a huge part of me died with him. I haven’t stopped crying since i found his body and i don’t know what to do now. The only man I ever truly loved so deeply. I’m never goin to be…
Paul Wettengel, 45, has been arrested on suspicion of assaulting a transgender man at a Boulder bus stop. It’s a disturbing story that demonstrates the challenges that members of the transgender community continue to face simply for being themselves. A report about the incident in the Boulder Daily Camera describes Wettengel as…
A small crime can lead to tragedy — and that appears to be the case in a double-shooting following a car chase from Cortez, Colorado to Shiprock, New Mexico. Two people are reportedly dead: a man and a young girl. And what spurred the incident? The theft of $41 worth…
In recent weeks, we’ve reported about a number of gang-related shootings in the Denver area, with a particular focus on incidents that took place in the Cole and Park Hill neighborhoods. But high-profile offenses like these don’t necessarily mean crime as a whole is more prevalent in these parts of the…
There are plenty of playful Facebook photos of Josh and Leah Cabrera — and even a comic illustration of the pair. These images only make the way their lives ended seem that much more tragic. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, Josh, 35, shot and killed Leah, 33, before…
Law-enforcement opponents of the 2012 marijuana measure Amendment 64 predicted that crime would escalate if the measure was approved. In contrast, A64 backers argued that crime would actually go down as a result of limited pot sales being legalized. After voters gave their blessing to the amendment, the debate continued,…
According to an arrest affidavit on view below, Englewood’s Jackie Degarmo was last reported to have been seen on February 21 of this year. However, her daughter, Alisia Blythe, didn’t tell authorities she was missing until more than two months later — April 24. On May 3, Degarmo’s body was…
