At a certain age, kids want to go to public restrooms unaccompanied. But parents always worry about bad things happening there — and the story of David Rigoulot illustrates why. Rigoulot has been given a three-years-to-life sentence for entering a bathroom stall with an eight-year old and touching his genitals…
Apparently marijuana isn’t as easy for teens to get as pot opponents argue. Otherwise, would there be a market for spice, also known as synthetic marijuana? Police believe the demand was high at a Sun Mart near East High School — the site of a prominent bust in which investigators…
It was almost three years ago that I first got interested in the case of Tara Perry, subject of this week’s feature, “The Girl Who Fell to Earth.” Perry was among several inmates considered strong candidates for clemency — all of whom were serving disproportionately long sentences and appeared to…
Lupo Solazzo apparently has pretty bad aim — and thank goodness for that. He’s now pleaded guilty for an incident that found him firing off 350 shots without hitting any of the approximately 100 police officers in the vicinity…
Tara Perry, the subject of this week’s cover story, “The Girl Who Fell to Earth,” has made a remarkable turnaround since she was first incarcerated thirteen years ago, at the age of sixteen. Corrections staff, teachers and others view her as a model of rehabilitation, one who’s tried to transform…
Samuel Govea didn’t wait around to be properly released from Denver Health Medical Center. Instead, he checked himself out — a matter of some concern for authorities, given that he was being held on behalf of the Denver Sheriff’s Office for a slew of offenses that led to him being…
Hassan Mayo is the latest alleged Denver-area pimp to be sentenced for human trafficking — an offense that’s earned him a sixteen-year stay at the Cross Bar Hotel His most shocking offense? He reportedly sold a woman to another pimp for $400…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the man who died after a shooting near 36th and Hudson on Valentine’s Day as Serril Allen, nineteen. He was transported to a hospital with a gunshot wound to his chest. By the way, a web search pulls up hits for a Serril…
This arrives a little late for Valentine’s Day, but Louie Lucero has an unusual approach to romance that’s bound to send any female into orbit — and probably to the hospital. The southwest Colorado man, who has a history of domestic violence cases and is currently on trial for assault…
Lauren Redfern ignored that old warning about how you can never go home again. A star basketball player for Basalt High School prior to her 2004 graduation, she took over as the squad’s head coach in 2010 and worked as a health teacher. Now, however, she’s expected to be processed…
Reports of random assaults in Boulder understandably sow fear among residents, and no wonder, given the large number of young women who attend the University of Colorado. Unfortunately, bogus claims have the same effect — and the Boulder Police Department has now accused two women, Allyson Manley and Nina Fiorillo,…
A shopping trip Kenny and Kathleen Sanchez took with their daughter led to their arrest for child abuse. No, they didn’t strike her in public or anything like that. Rather, it was the girl’s appearance that raised concern. The three-year-old weighed just nineteen pounds…
Is 53-year-old Stephan Mitchell a crook or a good Samaritan, albeit one who wanted to get paid? The folks at the Boulder Police Department have expressed their opinion clearly, busting Mitchell for theft in relation to a missing cell phone he says he found…
This morning, a freshman girl at Columbine High School allegedly attacked two fellow students with a hammer. It’s a story that would likely have remained local had it happened elsewhere. But because the incident took place at Columbine, outlets from ABC to the Sydney Morning Herald are covering it. Which…
Just Friday in this space, we talked about the growing epidemic of serious metro-area hit and run accidents in the context of updates on the Jenna Breen and Tim Albo crashes. A February 11 incident continued this trend by way of a chain reaction smash-up that led to the arrest…
Age is only a number — one that needn’t stop any of us from being active. Take Barbara West, who allegedly didn’t let her 73 years on earth prevent her from driving the getaway car in a burglary — and attempting to outrun the cops…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has now formally charged James Bradley, 32, with attempted first-degree assault for a bizarre incident involving a hammer attack on a police officer back on December 4. Why such a delay? No doubt due to Bradley’s condition. The officer shot him, and as detailed in…
The slogan featured prominently on attorney Nicholas Athanasiou’s website reads, “When Everything Seems Against You, Call Us!” Well, Athanasiou may want to give himself a ring about now. He’s among eighty individuals accused of being part of a huge cocaine ring — one shuttered in what authorities are calling the…
Integrity. Respect. Personal growth. Community. Wisdom. These words are front and center on the website home page of Kent Denver School, one of the most highly touted (and expensive) private educational institutions in Colorado. It’s not the kind of place typically associated with crime — yet three Kent students are…
Usually, individuals charged with first-degree murder who are fortunate enough to make bail are careful not to get into more trouble. But Michael Clark appears to be an exception to that rule. He was busted for DUI after being accused of killing City of Boulder staffer Marty Grisham in 1994…
For decades researchers have attempted to fathom how the “criminal mind” differs from that of the average citizen. Now it appears there’s often one critical physiological difference — a significant percentage of convicted felons may be suffering from impaired thinking because of banged-up brains…
Last month, defense attorneys for Louis Hampers filed a motion asking that the former doctor be sentenced to probation for the crime of writing phony prescriptions to feed his pill addiction. This week, prosecutors filed their own motion, arguing that he should instead be sentenced to the previously agreed-upon twelve…
