Macyo January was four months shy of turning eighteen when he allegedly murdered a pregnant woman and her husband during a burglary earlier this year. But a judge has ruled that he’ll be treated as if he’d already celebrated his birthday. January will be tried as an adult for the…
In a blog post written several months after a 2011 listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupe grown at Colorado’s Jensen Farms caused 33 deaths and 147 hospitalizations, attorney Bill Marler, who represents 46 families in the case, wrote that criminal indictments after such incidents are as “rare as hen’s teeth.” Yet…
Fort Carson soldier Richard Sheltra’s guilty plea for having sex with a thirteen year old would be shocking in and of itself. But other elements of the story make it even more disturbing. For instance, Sheltra, seen here and in additional photos below, is the second Fort Carson soldier to…
There doesn’t appear to be much mystery about who killed 42-year-old Denzle Rainey. According to a police report, Forsythia Owen, thirty, has admitted to beating Rainey to death using a baseball bat. However, Owen has told authorities she committed this gruesome act because Rainey had molested a child — an…
In July 2012, we told you about the arrest of Marquis Garrison in the death of his two-month-old daughter, as well as the decision to pursue a first-degree-murder charge in addition to a child-abuse-resulting-in-death count. A likely reason: A probable-cause statement on view below says he tried to make the…
Today, on the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims, families and loved ones of those whose lives were so cruelly cut short, including Denver Mayor Michael Hancock, whose sister was slain in 2002, will gather from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. outside the new Denver Crime Lab, 1371 Cherokee…
When he was a Tae Kwon Do instructor, Raul Gutierrez-Hernandez was known as “Master Raul,” and he was clearly skilled at martial arts, winning honors in the United States and Mexico. Now, however, a local district attorney has branded Gutierrez-Hernandez “gutless” — because rather than waiting to hear a jury’s…
As we reported yesterday, Terrance Roberts, a former gang leader who’d transformed himself into an inspirational anti-gang activist, was arrested for a shooting at a Friday unity rally he’d planned. We’ve now obtained the probable cause statement in the case (see it below), and in it, Roberts claims he acted…
“Terrance Roberts is one of Denver’s great comeback stories,” Westword’s Joel Warner wrote back in January. “A one-time shot-caller in the Park Hill Bloods,” Roberts, now 37, had turned his life around and founded the Prodigal Son Initiative, an anti-gang youth program in northeast Park Hill. When a 2008 gang-related…
While mug shots vary widely from community to community, jurisdiction to jurisdiction, they usually share one quality: The person they picture is centered in the frame. Not so school-bust driver Burton Carpenter. In the image seen here, and in a larger version below, he appears to be supporting himself by…
At 4:30 a.m. today, Lakewood Police Department and West Metro SWAT reps took custody of Sean Wyles, a wanted fugitive linked to the 211 prison gang. Wyles didn’t go easily. According to LPD Detective Ryan McKone, he claimed law enforcers would never take him alive, prompting a standoff that lasted…
The flooding that’s swamped so many communities would seem to provide plenty of repair work for people who specialize in flooring and landscaping — but not necessarily roofing. According to the Wheat Ridge Police Department, though, roofing scammers are leading the pack when it comes to potentially taking advantage of…
The flooding that’s swamped Colorado in recent days has resulted in loss of life, thousands of evacuations, enormous property damage and ministerial claims about prophecies and God’s wrath. But there have been relatively few reports about looting. Until now. The CU-Boulder campus is open today, but it’s been closed since…
Update: We’ve just gotten confirmation from the Denver District Attorney’s Office that Lonnie White, seventeen, will be charged as an adult in the murder of Reysean Abram, thirteen. Continue for our previous coverage. Update, 11:53 a.m.: Last week, we told you about the arrests of Marquise Lewis and two juveniles…
Update: Yesterday, we told you about the naming of a suspect, Tilo Sandoval, in the brutal, bias-motivated attack against Jared Olson outside a local nightspot last week. See our previous coverage below. Now, Sandoval has surrendered to authorities. He’s being held on a $30,000 bond and is expected to make…
The sanity examination of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes is complete. According to a notice filed with the court on September 6 but made public this week, the Colorado Mental Health Institute at Pueblo has submitted a 128-page report with the court; copies have also been given to prosecutors…
Thirteen-year-old Reysean Abram, who was shot to death while riding his bike, wasn’t the only homicide victim in the metro area over the long Labor Day weekend. Also killed was Jose Gutierrez-Peredia, 25. And while police haven’t made an arrest yet in the case (unlike the Abram slaying), investigators are…
On his website, Jason Roberson, a Christian musician, public speaker and former youth pastor at Longmont’s VineLife Church, describes himself as “son, husband, and father. I love the songs and sounds that unveil the heart of God in his people.” Something he presumably enjoys less is notoriety that comes with…
A few weeks ago, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey spoke out about violence in the medical marijuana industry; see his office’s list of twelve deaths associated with MMJ. Fortunately, no one died in an armed robbery at a Denver dispensary late last month. But Morrissey and company have charged three…
Lawyers for accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes think the state’s death penalty laws are unconstitutional — and they’ve filed a flurry of motions (some of which are on view below) asking that the judge in the case declare them so. Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty against Holmes, who…
Our crime coverage during the month of August has truly run the gamut. Included are photos of two notable Denver celebs caught in law’s trap, as well as images of people accused of bizarre offenses (like the guy who declared that “all raccoons must die”) and those who allegedly committed…
The Denver Police Department has not officially released the name of the woman killed in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 25 over the weekend — but she’s been identified by her friends and loved ones as Jenny Kush, a colorful, outspoken and much adored member of the local cannabis community…
