The Denver District Attorney’s Office has formally charged Denzel Richardson and Marquise Davis in the shocking, daylight gundown of four people in Five Points, with Justin O’Donnell and Deon Rudd dying from their wounds. At this point, though, DA’s office reps are keeping the info that led to the targeting…
The eleventh homicide of 2012 in Colorado Springs is an extremely sordid tale. The victim: James Bidgood, a local homeless man. The accused: James Henry Bratt, a 36-year-old with a noteworthy criminal record. The ingredients: domestic violence, an ankle monitor, meth and more. A lot more…
With Amendment 64, the Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol Act, already approved for the November ballot, and other initiatives aiming for it, media stories related to cannabis are being read closer than ever for political subtext. That’s definitely the case with a 9News report about rising medical marijuana crime statistics –…
Those of us who’ve had a car towed often gripe about the high cost required to get it back. But what if you had to buy it one piece at a time? That’s the scenario presented by allegations against Charles and Michelle Wrenfrow, who allegedly turned their Adams County tow…
The meeting began with a prayer. Eight hours later, it ended with Sharletta Evans feeling that she’d found much of what she’d been seeking from a face-to-face encounter with Raymond Johnson, one of the people responsible for the killing of her three-year-old son Casson seventeen years ago. She would later…
Like Carmen Tisch, sentenced to mental health probation for rubbing her butt on, and urinating near, a $30 million Clyfford Still painting, Taylor Mathis didn’t immediately earn jail time for one of the most notorious offenses in recent months. That’s more surprising in Mathis’s case, though, since she badly injured…
It was one of the most bizarre stories of late 2011: The arrest of Carmen Tisch for rubbing her butt on, and urinating near, a Clyfford Still painting whose value was estimated in a police report on view below at $60 million — although that figure was subsequently revised downward…
In decrying the resources wasted in a failed prosecution of medical marijuana caregiver Josh Jones (a total he estimated at over $100,000), attorney Rob Corry suggested that law enforcers focus on meth rather than weed. Little did he know that the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Colorado and the Organized Crime…
Update: Yesterday, the Englewood Police Department released details about the funeral service for Officer Jeremy Bitner, whose death in a crash involving alleged drunk driver Conner Donohue has stirred plenty of passions throughout the metro area; see our coverage below. Now, however, the EPD is announcing that the memorial services…
This week, Fourth Judicial District Judge David Prince had the option of giving Mary Horsley up to forty years in prison — and that’s precisely what he did. But he reportedly felt the options available to him under the law “pale in comparison to any justice that should be doled…
Last week, the Denver Police Department released information about so-called johns stings, which resulted in the arrests of 29 people for soliciting prostitution, plus six prostitutes. Below are photos representing eleven individuals swept up in the operation — and getting them wasn’t easy…
Debates about Denver gang violence have been spurred by a Friday incident that killed Justin O’Donnell and Deon Rudd and wounded two others. And while Denver Police have yet to confirm this slaying was gang-related, Alonzo Paige’s preliminary hearing over a January quadruple shooting/double murder in Colorado Springs leaves little…
Update: In comparison with the broad-daylight slayings of Justin O’Donnell and Deon Rudd this past Friday, Richard Nack’s murder a few hours later received comparatively modest media attention. Now, the case is edging closer to the spotlight because of a revelation by the Denver Police Department that Nack was a…
Colorado Springs police have arrested the man they believe is responsible for a string of increasingly violent robberies in recent weeks, during which the robber brandished a rock or brick, menaced other victims with a knife or gun — and even sprayed some people with lighter fluid and threatened to…
Denver Police haven’t confirmed that the shockingly public slayings of Justin O’Donnell and Deon Rudd in northeast Denver on Friday were gang-related. But Reverend Leon Kelly, the veteran activist behind Open Door Youth Gang Alternatives, sees gang connections in this terrible act and many others that have happened in Five…
The Colorado Bureau of Investigation maintains a website focused on convicted sex offenders in the state — including those whose current whereabouts are unknown, because they’ve failed to register with authorities. We’ve collected photos and identifying information for twenty such creeps. If you recognize any of them, phone the CBI…
Denver’s new crime lab smells like fresh paint and virgin plastic. Some of the office furniture is still wrapped in it, or stacked in boxes. But all of the major stuff — the lab benches, the fingerprint examination tables, the walk-in freezer and the test-firing range — is in place,…
Update: The shooting on Friday that killed Justin O’Donnell and Deon Rudd stirred controversy in part because the former’s body was left in view of a large throng for hours. Denver Police spokesman Detective John White stresses that no disrespect was intended — and he hints that the investigative work…
Fewer than two weeks have passed since the third anniversary of the Mile High Murder archive — and since that time, there have been at least seven homicides in the metro area, including four over the Friday-Monday Memorial Day weekend. The latest involves gunfire outside the duRozz Restaurant & Lounge…
As if the Friday murders of Justin O’Donnell and Deon Rudd, plus the Saturday slaying of Richard Nack, didn’t create enough bloodshed for the Memorial Day weekend, yet another homicide took place in Aurora late last night. The victim has not yet been identified, by the sickening circumstances have been…
John stings, or undercover operations where a cop — usually a female cop — poses as a prostitute to catch men willing to pay for sex, are more rare than stings in which the roles are reversed. This week, the Denver police announced the arrests of 29 people as the…
Update below: In October 2010, Denver Policeman Hector Paez was booked on a sexual assault charge for allegedly coercing a woman to perform oral sex on him to avoid going to jail. Last September, a mistrial was declared in his case, which is slated for this winter. But his accuser…
