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…
Why has Justin Bieber’s name surfaced amid allegations of domestic violence against Denver Police officer Michael Nuanes? Because Nuanes accuses his girlfriend of injuring him by hurling a Bieber doll at him. The girlfriend, for her part, says Nuanes did considerably more damage. With his fists…
Just in case you’re thinking of taking one of your dead buddies out on the town, consider the cautionary tale of Robert Young and Mark Rubinson. True, they didn’t get jail time: They’ve been sentenced to probation. But the additional punishments, not to mention the ignominious attention they earned for…
At this writing, a search of the Boulder Daily Camera website for the name Ronnie Darnell doesn’t score a hit. But Darnell, who until recently delivered the Daily Camera, is making news elsewhere — for allegedly exposing himself while dropping off papers. Oh yeah: He’s apparently done this kind of…
Erick Perez’s sentencing this week for second degree assault and unlawful sexual conduct brings to a close the prosecution of a highly unusual case that led to the conviction of five other young men — some of them teenagers when the crime was committed. It started with a party. And…
We’ve known since 2010 that the senseless slaying of sixteen-year-old Alicia Martinez was allegedly followed by a horrific attempt at body disposal by accused killer Edward Timothy Romero. But the info emerging from the trial of Francesca Pagliasotti, charged with helping to cover up the crime, is even more loathsome…
Tomorrow morning, James Craig Bird is slated to be sentenced after pleading guilty to pattern child sexual assault by a person in a position of trust. His court appearance marks a remarkable turn of events for a man who created a website and a video (see it below) to proclaim…
Update below: The Denver District Attorney’s Office has announced that it’s solved four cold cases: the murders of a quartet of women between 1979 and 1988. The slayer: Vincent Groves, who may be the most prolific serial killer in the state’s history…
At least one of Dennis Foust’s neighbors sees him as a loving and caring son who went to extremes to care for his elderly mother. But the Colorado Springs Police Department thinks otherwise — maybe because the woman, age 86, was found lying on the floor in her own filth…
