The story of Kristen Braig, charged with neglect after her three-year-old daughter, Lileigh Kellenaers, died in a fire that broke out when Braig was only about 200 feet away, is among the most tragic stories we reported in January — and it also produced two of the month’s indelible images…
National Day of Johns Arrests is a bit of a misnomer. Rather than limiting their activities to a 24-hour period, law enforcers set aside the period between January 15 to February 1 to target johns — clients of prostitutes. A total of 37 agencies reportedly participated nationwide, including the Denver…
In recent years, the Denver District Attorney’s Office has put an emphasis on closing cold cases. Now, the office has announced that it’s solved the brutal 1997 slaying of Surle Goldfogel, 67, and while the family has expressed gratitude, the resolution isn’t complete. Jonathan Clinton, a heroin addict said to…
As a reality TV star (she’s currently appearing on the program Marriage Boot Camp), Colorado-born Heidi Montag makes her living by sharing her private life with the public. But thus far, she hasn’t directly commented on the arrest of her father, William Montag, in Aspen on charges that include aggravated…
They were the most notorious yet least-seen artifacts from one of the worst school shootings in American history — roughly four hours of home videos made by two teenage killers-to-be, shot in the last weeks of their lives and offering glimpses into the methods and motives behind the 1999 attack…
The Denver Police Department has released crime statistics for 2014, and in comparison with the numbers from 2013, the news is mixed. Many of the most serious crimes have gone down, but plenty of others have increased in frequency — sometimes by a little, sometimes by a lot. Continue to…
These are not the best of times for the criminal justice system in Trinidad. The city and two of its police detectives are being sued by the ACLU of Colorado, which claims the detectives fabricated and misrepresented evidence in a 2013 drug investigation that led to the arrests of forty…
Sons of Anarchy fans will recognize the scenario: motorcycle club members who make their money by dealing drugs and weapons. But the Colorado Attorney General’s Office maintains that the activities of several local Bandidos Motorcycle Club members weren’t the stuff of Hollywood fiction. Hence an indictment for alleged meth trafficking…
Update: Developments continue to collect in the case of Jessie Hernandez, a seventeen-year-old killed by Denver police officers while she was in a stolen car; see our previous coverage below. Another protest took place, this time at a police station, even as information surfaced about Hernandez’s previous run-ins with the…
Update below: Did Colorado Springs landlord John Lorenz text a photo of pointed gun to a man living at his place — and then use the weapon to kill him later in the day? That’s among the assertions in a police report naming Lorenz, who’s currently in custody on suspicion…
Editor’s note: To read an update about the Jessie Hernandez shooting, including information about a witness who says officers fired before one was struck by the car she was driving, click here. Original post, 5:44 a.m. January 27: Yesterday, Denver police officers shot and killed the driver of a car…
In recent years, Kansas has accused Coloradans of trafficking marijuana in that state on a regular basis — and its attorney general is reportedly still considering the possibility of joining a lawsuit against Colorado over the pot laws here, as filed by AGs in Nebraska and Oklahoma. Amid this tension,…
The Denver Nuggets’ latest lost season just got a little more embarrassing. Ty Lawson, the alleged leader of the team, was busted for DUI (again), causing him to miss one game the team should have won — and he also missed a shot in his return to the lineup last…
Juggalos — fans of the group Insane Clown Posse — have long decried attempts to portray them as violent. But amid their ongoing efforts to establish a new reputation, self-described Juggalo Nicholas Damon is on the run, wanted for a slew of felonies, including assaulting a police officer. Photos and…
Earlier today, we told you that the birdshot pellet put up for sale by Aurora theater shooting survivor Carli Richards sold for the asking price of $1,650. Westword has since spoken with the man who bought it, Georgia-based forensic consultant Anthony Meoli. Meoli says he bought the pellet to help…
Would you die for your cellphone? Jordan Hough nearly did. Two men stole Hough’s phone while he was on an RTD bus, and rather than letting them get away with it, he gave chase — and he found out why police warn against taking the law into your own hands…
Update: Shortly after the publication of our post about Aurora theater shooting survivor Carli Richards deciding to sell a pellet removed from her body after being wounded by gunman James Holmes, we received word via e-mail from SerialKillersInk.net owner Eric Holler revealing that the pellet had been purchased by “a…
Update: Last week, we told you about the officer-involved shooting of a man who’d allegedly robbed a Fast-N-Friendly outlet in Aurora; see our previous coverage below. Now, the Aurora Police Department has identified the person killed as 39-year-old Kavonda Earl Payton — and there’s a very large difference between his…
Scripps News recently crunched numbers on unsolved U.S. murders and discovered that the total of 200,000-plus since 1980 actually exceeds the population of Des Moines, Iowa. The data also reveals which states do the best job of solving homicides, and Colorado’s ranking is mediocre, with 26 states cracking a higher…
In 2013, we told you about Boobies Rock!, an organization that sent hot women into bars wearing T-shirts emblazoned with the company’s name — and they told customers to whom they sold branded merchandise that the money they collected would go toward fighting breast cancer. But Colorado’s Attorney General branded…
On a chilly morning like this one, a lot of us are tempted to start a car parked on the street and leave it running for a few minutes while we finish up inside. Here’s a story demonstrating why that’s a bad idea: A puffer car that was stolen yesterday…
As we’ve reported, Denver police Officer John Adsit was critically injured in a crash that took place while he was on crowd-control duty during a December 3 East High School student walk-out prompted by a Ferguson, Missouri grand jury’s no-indictment decision in the shooting death of Michael Brown. He remains…
