This week’s cover story, “The Columbine Effect,” reports on the controversy over a proposed television miniseries based on the 1999 shootings at Columbine High School — and the effort by CHS grad Sam Granillo to complete a documentary focused on the survivors’ stories, dealing with the shock and long-term trauma…
Richard Thebo, 71, has run Fort Collins’ Open Door Mission for nineteen years. But if the Colorado Attorney General’s Office has its way, his connection with the homeless shelter will end soon. The AG has filed a lawsuit charging Thebo and associates such as his son with misusing funds and…
Update:Denver Police have busted Anthony Escobedo, 31, in the March 18 slaying of Billy Newson in the vicinity of Colfax and Pearl. Escobedo reportedly has at least one major conviction in his past. As for Newson, his arrest history suggests to Denver District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough that he…
This week’s feature, “The Columbine Effect,” reports on the controversy over a proposed miniseries about the shootings at Columbine — and the way filmmakers have made use of the tragedy to advance various agendas of their own. But references to Columbine in indie films and documentaries, however upsetting to survivors…
A car can be a deadly weapon — especially if a driver is purposefully aiming it at people. That’s among the allegations against Joshua White, 24, who’s accused of using his car to bump a woman and a man, then dragging the latter 150 feet…
Last December, we noted that the U.S. Supreme Court had agreed to hear an appeal by Steve Howards, who claimed that his free speech rights had been chilled by Secret Service agents when he approached then-Vice President Dick Cheney in Colorado circa 2006. Yesterday, the case reached the nation’s highest…
Update: In recent days, Fort Carson-based Sergeant Christopher Mountjoy was arrested in the death of Virgil Means outside the Sin City Disciples motorcycle club. Now, a second soldier, John Burrell, has been arrested in the incident. He’s being held on the charge of murder in the first degree…
People aren’t usually prosecuted for lying to get out of jury duty. If they were, the court system would have a mighty tough time finding enough jurors to determine the guilt or innocence of the non-jurors. Then again, most people who pull off this gambit don’t concoct as elaborate a…
This week’s feature, “The Columbine Effect,” explores the enduring fascination indie filmmakers seem to have with the attack on Columbine High School thirteen years ago — and the agendas advanced (gun control, bullying prevention, etc.) in their fictional and not-so-fictional interpretations of the tragedy. The latest entry in the field,…
In an attempt to improve the public’s trust in the police and the department’s disciplinary review system, Manager of Safety Alex Martinez announced the creation of a new position within his office. Former district and country judge Jess Vigil will join the police review process as the deputy manager of…
Every parent gets frustrated when a baby starts crying and won’t stop. But 22-year-old Daniel Kim’s alleged solution to this situation caused infinitely more problems for all concerned. He’s accused of trying to silence his infant son by slugging him in the head hard enough to crack his skull…
When we named Charlie Sheen’s ex-wife Brooke Mueller Shmuck of the Week this past December, we only knew the barest details about her arrest in Aspen on cocaine-and-assault-related charges. Does her deferred sentence in the case call this award into question? Not really judging by info from a just-released police…
Pigeons are frequently referred to as rats with wings. But that doesn’t mean they can be publicly beaten to death — especially in Boulder. Which explains the charges against two CU Boulder students accused of doing just that…
The news first surfaced in the Hollywood trade press last month: The Lifetime cable network is developing a miniseries about the 1999 school shootings at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Based on a best-selling book about the tragedy, the project involves a team of heavyweight producers whose collective film…
Highlands Ranch resident Kizzy Kalu has been ordered detained without bond — an indication that he’s considered a flight risk. And that makes perfect sense given the allegations against him. He and a fellow defendant have been indicted on 132 counts, most involving claims that they lured foreign nationals to…
The Denver Police Department has compiled a list of its nineteen top murder suspects, all of whom remain at large at this writing. The crimes go back to 1980, and anti-immigration types will no doubt notice that the vast majority of them are Hispanic, with at least one suspected of…
No post has ever fit more snugly in our Colorado Crimes category than this one. That’s because the citation nineteen-year-old Seth Franco received yesterday involves the fallout from his inability to get his cat to run around a park on a leash. Really…
The Facebook page for Lakewood’s Cody Charlton features a single like: Big Brother, a TV show in which bad things often happen to people confined in a house. Which is appropriate given that he’s just been sentenced for improperly touching at least ten kids at the home where his mother…
The most shameful date in the history of Colorado’s death penalty is January 6, 1939 — the day the state executed a bewildered 23-year-old man with an IQ of 46, a man who was innocent in just about every sense of the word His name was Joe Arridy. And three-quarters…
Paul Staffin, 67, appears to have conformed to pretty much every known stereotype about older homeowners when he allegedly pointed a pellet gun at a kid who’d strayed onto his lawn. But the story spelled out in a Boulder Police Department report on view below subsequently took a weird turn…
Back in January, prosecutors said they wanted Hyung Kyo Chung and Shannon Jeffrey to spend time in jail after being convicted of animal cruelty for mistreating their puppy, Bailey. In the end, though, the couple earned probation even though the dog suffered two bone breaks within his first six months…
Leroy Wright, 55, has been identified as the victim of a shooting that appears to have taken place this past Friday on the 2100 block of Franklin Street. At this point, the Denver Police Department isn’t offering any information about possible suspects, or much of anything else…
