Hollywood loves stories about psychiatrists and patients drawn into love matches during their shared time together — much of it involving a couch. But the folks at the Colorado Springs Police Department aren’t nearly as charmed by the concept. Just ask Dr. Janice Husted, who’s been arrested for allegedly getting…
The attorneys for Secretary of State Scott Gessler, who is accused of misusing state funds, have said there are many reasons why the case should be dismissed. The Independent Ethics Commission disagrees, voting yesterday to reject the dismissal requests. That means the investigation will continue — but Gessler maintains that…
The thief in the bear-mace stickup of a Boulder marijuana dispensary reportedly stole $9,000 worth of weed — a far bigger haul than usual for crimes that typically net little cash or merchandise. Case in point: This weekend’s burglary at Craig Apothecary, whose pissed-off owner is offering a $1,000 reward…
Editor’s note: Melanie Asmar is covering today’s preliminary hearing into the July 20 Aurora theater shooting allegedly committed by James Holmes. The latest update is immediately below, followed by previous coverage. January 7, 5:28 p.m.: The final portion of the hearing began with testimony by the two forensic pathologists who…
The next family meal at the Arapahoe abode is absolutely guaranteed to be awkward. Why? Because Alec Arapahoe, twenty, has been arrested on a slew of charges, including using a Taser to menace and/or shoot his grandmother and his great aunt. Details can be found in a vivid police report…
Just checked in with the Boulder Police Department, and spokeswoman Kim Kobel tells us there have been no arrests or new developments regarding the investigation into a bizarre robbery at the Dandelion Dispensary, a Boulder marijuana shop. But at least the Dandelion has reopened after an extensive cleanup necessitated by…
The upcoming reopening of Cinemark’s Century 16 theater, the site of the tragic mass shooting on July 20 at a midnight show, has sparked a lot of controversy this week — in part because of a heavily criticized letter that theater sent to the victims’ families inviting them to attend…
After a few minutes of dancing and drumming at FlatIron Crossing in Broomfield on Wednesday, police officers told a large group of protesters that they had to stop. A short while later, five were in handcuffs. This is how a planned flash mob became confrontational — at least according to…
Update, 2:37 p.m.: Denver Police have made an arrest in connection with the first homicide of the new year. Robert Anthony Rubio, 26, mugshot below, was taken into custody yesterday as a suspect in a January 1st late-night shooting that left one man injured and another dead in Southwest Denver…
Another police officer is under investigation for an animal killing in Colorado — and the victim is a tad bit bigger than Chloe the dog. Boulder Police officials, in a statement that includes an apology, say that an officer shot and killed a bull elk and took it to another…
Yesterday, families of those who died in the Aurora theater shooting blasted Cinemark, owner of the site of the tragedy, for insensitively inviting them to an event timed with the theater’s reopening. The mother and stepfather of victim Jessica Ghawi joined others in signing a letter to the theater, expressing…
Accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes was in court yesterday for a short hearing to determine whether lawyers were ready to proceed with what will likely be a revealing preliminary hearing next week. (They are; the hearing starts Monday, January 7 at 9 a.m.) After the hearing, we used the…
Pot is now technically legal in Colorado for recreational use — but smoking underage on a bus bound for this state most certainly is not. That was a tough lesson for a group of Ohio students who were caught with marijuana and other drugs on their way here for an…
This was not the holiday letter that families of the Aurora theater shooting victims wanted to receive. Two days after Christmas, the families of those killed on July 20 received a letter inviting them to return to the site of the massacre for a Cinemark reopening event. They’ve since responded…
An important hearing in the case of Aurora theater shooting suspect James Holmes will start Monday, January 7 at 9 a.m. This morning, prosecutors and Holmes’s defense attorneys told the judge in the case that they’re ready to proceed with the preliminary hearing, which is expected to reveal many more…
At 7 p.m. on December 18, Eric Garcia attacked a woman as she was walking to her car on West Colfax Avenue in Lakewood. She was “able to fight the male off and he fled,” Lakewood police say. Apparently not satisfied with his failed attempt, a mere twenty minutes later…
Just before the end of 2012, Nicholas Mitchell, Denver’s new independent monitor, released his first report to the public, covering discipline cases at the police and sheriff’s departments. The document from the city’s official watchdog, just the second person to hold the position, offers a glimpse into pending investigations of…
Update: Adams County District Attorney Don Quick announced this afternoon that Ezequiel Padilla-Villalobos, the 24-year-old who called 911 over the weekend, admitting he had killed a 14-year-old girl, is also facing sexual assault charges. As expected, he’s facing first-degree murder charges, too, after allegedly stabbing to death the younger sister…
Recreational marijuana is now legal in Colorado, but carrying eleven pounds of pot on a Greyhound bus with the “intent to manufacture or distribute” is not. That is the felony charge that landed 35-year-old Jason Ramirez in jail, after a routine check at a rest stop in Lamar uncovered an…
Skateboarding shouldn’t be a crime — but it is in certain parts of Denver. And during my recent run-in with the Denver Police Department after I was caught skateboarding on the 16th Street Mall, I learned that not only do some cops hate skateboarding, they also hate being questioned about…
Nothing signals holiday spirit like the scrawled message “I hate black people,” accompanied by a swastika. This was the message that vandals in Colorado Springs left just before Christmas, according to city officials. In an alert, police say they are searching for leads in two cases — one involving a…
After a week of silence since the Sandy Hook massacre, the National Rifle Association today said that more guns need to be part of the strategy to stop this kind of violence. Meanwhile, families of the victims of the Aurora shooting and the Columbine tragedy came together for an emotional…
