Photos: The ABCs of Denver’s unregistered sex offenders

Last October, we shared a list of Colorado’s twenty most wanted sex offenders. But Denver has its own roster. It’s more than 150 strong, with all of the men and women on it wanted for failing to register after sex-crime convictions. To give you a feel for those at large,…

Richard Dolin sentenced in brutal death of his baby daughter

Richard Dolin insisted that his baby daughter — five-month-old Marlayna, seen here — received many if not most of the injuries that eventually took her life from rolling off a couch onto a concrete floor. But prosecutors didn’t buy this explanation, pointing to shocking injuries completely inconsistent with this explanation…

Marijuana: Are new pot smokers an even bigger danger when they drive high?

Even before the passage of Amendment 64, which allows adults age 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, law-enforcement agencies have campaigned against driving under the influence of drugs, even though, from a statistical standpoint, alcohol-related DUIs dwarf pot-related ones. This weekend, Arvada’s Keith Kilbey became…

Eric Garcia convicted of three sex-assault attempts in one hour

Around this time last year, we told you about the arrest of Eric Garcia for allegedly attempting to sexually assault two women in a twenty-minute period. Turns out Garcia had been even busier than originally reported. He’s now been convicted of sexual assault tries against three women during a one-hour…

Is Colorado keeping inmates past their release dates?

The Colorado Department of Corrections may have miscalculated the sentences of thousands of state inmates, hiking prison costs by millions of dollars and keeping offenders incarcerated beyond the time they were expected to serve, according to a federal lawsuit filed on behalf of four DOC clients — one of whom…