When family members take stories of what they see as injustice to the media, they’re obviously hoping for a sympathetic story to result — and Fox31 certainly gave the parents of Alicia Zamaro, a 22-year-old charged with attempted murder against her baby, Jerricho Curry, plenty of opportunities to state their…
Mere hours after vandalism of a Denver police memorial led to calls for the resignation of Police Chief Robert White, cops were on the scene of a far more serious crime. A man is dead and a woman was injured in a shooting that took place shortly after 2 a.m. on…
The debate over the death penalty couldn’t be more personal for the mother of Brendan Johnson. In June 2014, Johnson and his then-girlfriend, Cassie Rieb, were arrested and charged in the murders of his grandfather and grandmother, Charles and Shirley Severance, in the eastern Colorado community of Sterling. A few months later, prosecutors…
Kendrick Marquez, 25, reportedly died trying to prevent 21-year-old Autumn Martinez from driving drunk — and she’s now facing multiple charges in regard to the accident that killed him. But the black eye Martinez sports in her booking photo and the details of what became a fatal collision and the happenings that…
This past November, we told you about Eric Brandt, who frequently rides his bicycle in Westminster while displaying a giant hand, complete with extended middle finger, that’s emblazoned with the phrase “FUCK COPS.” At the time, Brandt had secured the legal services of attorney David Lane, who filed a free-speech…
A protest against police violence on Saturday afternoon was intended to draw attention to incidents like the officer-involved shootings into vehicles that left Ryan Ronquillo and Jessie Hernandez dead. But much to the chagrin of organizers, this message has gotten lost to a large degree after two demonstrators spilled red…
Leslie Carlson was a teacher at Pinnacle High School — was being the operative part of the sentence. Carlson has been fired after she was arrested for allegedly providing some of her students with alcohol and marijuana edibles. The Facebook page for Carlson appears to have been taken down. But 7News managed to…
Dusten Fischer and his beloved, Ashleigh, are expecting the birth of their first child together — a boy they’ve already named Brantley — on February 19. But less than a week away from that date, Fischer is in critical condition at Denver Health after being stabbed nine times during an…
In December, we told you about a triple murder for which Furmen Leyba and Gabriel Flores were arrested. During that bust, an Adams County deputy, later identified as Mike Robbins, was shot, apparently by friendly fire. Now, the Denver District Attorney’s Office has released its decision-letter about the incident (see…
All too often, law enforcers are faced with suicide-by-cop scenarios — including incidents like one in Denver circa 2013 when a man was killed by cops after holding a gun to his head. According to the Garfield County Sheriff’s Office, something similar took place this week prior to the fatal shooting…
Original post with new photos: The number of hit-and-runs in Denver continues to increase — and the latest one, which took place yesterday and led to the arrest of Brenda Rosales-Montoya, thirty — left a victim dead. Details below. See also: Alton Kirkland Admits to Hitting and Running in Fatal…
The video of an Aspen High School student being roughly taken to the ground by multiple law enforcers might have stirred controversy no matter the offense for which he was arrested. But the fact that his bust was prompted by him allegedly rolling a joint has upped the outrage of…
Back in January, we told you that Aurora theater shooting survivor Carli Richards had sold one of the birdshot pellets that hit her for $1,650. Now, Richards has sold a second pellet, the last one she had, for the same sum. She says the proceeds have allowed her to begin…
After members of the Fountain Fire Department responded to a reported blaze in a suburban neighborhood early Wednesday morning, they found the body of a young woman inside. The victim has now been identified as Larissa Tiffany-Schiess, 27 — and police who are investigating her death as a homicide believe…
What began as a welfare check at a residence on Java Court has now become a homicide inquiry. Thus far, however, the Denver Police Department is keeping the vast majority of details hush-hush. See also: Rapist Tony Dotson Guilty in Murder-For-Hire Bid Against Victim…and Sister Is Still Missing…
Over the past eight years or so, Tony Dotson has been in the public eye for vastly different reasons: first as the heartsick sibling whose sister had vanished without a trace, then as a man accused and later convicted of acquaintance rape, and now as the newly convicted perpetrator of…
Last year, we told you about the charging of Harold Henthorn in the death of his second wife, Dr. Toni Henthorn, who perished after a fall in Rocky Mountain National Park, as well as dark suspicions that the supposed mishap that killed his first wife, Lynn Henthorn, had actually been…
No matter how carefully adults secure their meds, a motivated teen can often get to them. An example, according to the Mesa County Sheriff’s Office, is a thirteen-year-old who has now been busted twice for giving away powerful pills, including Oxycodone, at Western Slope schools after reportedly finding the combination…
If the allegations pressed by the Denver District Attorney’s Office are accurate, Yesenia Cardoza wasn’t just endangering the motoring public when she hit the road while more than twice the legal limit for intoxication. She was also risking the life of her own two-year-old daughter, who was in the car…
In January 2013, we published a post whose headline began with the words “Lance Armstrong Is a Liar.” But in regard to an Aspen car crash that’s turned into the latest public embarrassment for the multiple-time Tour de France victor and belatedly admitted cheater, he’s not the person who told…
Sometimes, serious crimes immediately attract a great deal of attention. On other occasions, they largely slip through the cracks. That’s what happened with the weekend discovery of 36-year-old Angela Howard’s bullet-riddled body in her Loveland home. But that’s likely to change, now that another corpse — that of Russell Woolman,…
In a post about the death of Jessie Hernandez, seventeen, who was killed by cops while she was behind the wheel of a stolen car, we noted that it’s been more than two decades since the Denver District Attorney’s Office has prosecuted a police officer for a shooting that took…
