On Friday, for the first time in four years, Denver’s streets reached Critical Mass when the local branch of the national organization took downtown on two wheels. But the mass mobilization wasn’t all smooth cycling: As riders promoted consideration of a world without cars, eight members were ticketed on Denver’s…
This past weekend, Austin Tingley and Brian Donaire-Laso were arrested by Longmont police officers on low-level charges following a party. But they’ve gotten more attention for what they’re said to have done en route to Boulder County Jail — urinating in the back of a patrol car. And according to…
In 1998, the nude body of Sabrina Stevens, nineteen, was found dumped along a west-side highway. Immediately thereafter, suspicion began to focus on Adam Dixon, who’d been engaged to Stevens just a couple of months earlier. But it took more than thirteen years for him to confess to ending her…
Did a Denver 911 operator accidentally contribute to the slaying of twenty-something Jimma Reat? That appears to be a strong possibility. After all, a dispatcher told Reat and his companions to return to Denver to report damage to their vehicle — and when they did, Reat was murdered in the…
Earlier this week, we wrote about medical marijuana caregiver Stylios Trachanas’s guilty plea to pot and weapons charges from the viewpoint of federal prosecutors, including a reference to a past murder conviction in Texas. But Trachanas’s mother, Sharon Couch, says there’s much more to the son she calls Steve than…
Bike rage incidents are becoming more common: Remember allegations of tacks left on paths in Deer Creek Canyon last year? But the Boulder Police Department thinks Mack Meade’s actions weren’t nearly as stealth. He’s been arrested on suspicion that he spat on a bicyclist and threatened him with a machete…
On Tuesday, Colorado Springs Police handled two calls involving what are described as suicidal suspects, with one of them, Phinehas McNeal, allegedly delivering a kick to an officer’s face in the process. Turns out, though, that McNeal was not exactly an unknown quantity, having been busted a few months back…
Louis Hampers, the former pediatric ER doc who pleaded guilty to prescription drug fraud, was sentenced today to five years of supervised probation. Hampers must serve the first six months of that probation in home detention. He must also pay a $30,000 fine, according to U.S. Attorney’s Office spokesman Jeff…
The Humane Society of the Pikes Peak Region is seeking loving homes for more than sixty animals that were rescued from what Pueblo County authorities see as a terribly neglectful one. Their past owner, Valerie Harris, has been charged with aggravated cruelty to animals — an accusation of the sort…
Reports about Stylios Trachanas’s court appearance on Friday led with his role as a medical marijuana caregiver, as did a U.S. Attorney’s Office release. But while his MMJ work will contribute to his sentence, he may not have been arrested at all if he hadn’t used and possessed weapons forbidden…
As this Style Bistro tribute to the horse-mane mohawk demonstrates, extreme hairdos are often inspired by the animal kingdom. Still, most of us can recognize them as being of human origin — but apparently not Derrill Rockwell, who’s been sentenced for shooting a woman’s coiffure after mistaking it for a…
The victim of a shooting last week near 29th and Franklin has been identified as De’Quan Walker-Smith, eighteen — and while the Denver Police Department hasn’t specifically categorized the crime as gang-related, the dangers of this lifestyle hung over a weekend vigil in Walker-Smith’s honor — and it’s also evident…
Update: We now have more information about a homicide that took place last week on Knox Court. The victim, identified as Isaiah Garcia, eighteen, reportedly opened his apartment door in response to persistent knocking and was greeted with fatal gunfire…
Is it possible that a murder could have taken place in broad daylight at a traffic-light-controlled intersection in a sizable American city and no one saw much of anything? That’s a question that arises three days after a slaying that left a man dead behind the wheel of his SUV…
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…
