Our Colorado Crimes archive has been was very busy during January, filling with stories that range from the bizarre to the tragic. Look below to see mug shots of those at the center of the reports, and click on their names or accompanying links to check out our original coverage…
Paul James Kerr, a former KinderCare teacher in Littleton, has pleaded guilty to felony sex assault on a child, as well as two other misdemeanor charges. His admitted technique — getting a child to reveal herself by claiming that he was checking her for signs of abuse…
News that Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers is seeking the death penalty for Josiah Sher, the alleged trigger man in a double-murder-for-hire case in Castle Rock, doesn’t exactly come as a shocker. The slayings of Amara Wells and Bob Rafferty were about as coldblooded as they come, and Chambers…
Will Pericak has one of the most sparkling bios of any CU Buff. However, the Boulder Police report about his activities this past weekend is considerably less impressive. The document, on view below, tells a tale featuring a bar fire, a chest bump and a lot of fuck-yous…
That old saw about divorce being hardest on the kids almost turned fatal in the case of Nyesha Hall-Gonzalez, 28. She’s accused of burying a Carmelo Ortiz-Hall, her two-year-old son, under tumbleweeds and leaving him to die in an El Paso County field because of her desire to kill herself…
Anyone who’s ever visited Alfalfa’s in Boulder has probably fantasized about eating every delectable item in sight and then gently drifting into a blissful food coma. According to Boulder Police Department, Anthony Tornowski got to live the first part of that dream — but not the second…
Debe Bell, 59, has been found guilty on 35 counts of animal abuse at an Arvada property known as Six Bells Farm, where she raised rabbits. Many of the animals appear to have suffered and died in shocking conditions captured in photos on view below…
The Dougherty gang just can’t seem to stay out of the headlines. The trio of siblings, including sis Lee Grace, whose skintastic bikini photos became an Internet sensation, allegedly engaged in a cross-country crime spree that ended after a car-flipping chase in Southern Colorado last August. Now it’s Dylan Dougherty’s…
Most local news outlets aren’t using the name of the sixteen-year-old Utah student who met with Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis a month before being arrested, along with eighteen-year-old Dallin Morgan, in an alleged plot to blow up their high school. But Utah media is identifying him as Joshua Hoggan, whose…
Update: The Denver Police Department has released a booking photo of Taylor Jo Mathis, the 21-year-old who’s accused of having been behind the wheel during an ugly hit-and-run. The crash, which seriously injured two people, was caught on surveillance video on view below. See a larger version of Mathis’s mug…
Most of the attention for Wednesday’s fourteen arrests in a Colfax prostitution sweep has focused on Darren Garcia, who presents herself as a woman and is HIV-positive. Garcia’s eight previous busts include two for the crime of prostitution with the knowledge of AIDS, and she was convicted of a felony…
“My options are narrowing,” says Charles Farrar, phoning from the Sterling Correctional Facility. And so they are. Farrar has just learned that his handwritten appeal of his 145-year sentence for child sexual abuse — a series of crimes that his accuser now insists never happened — has been rejected by…
Update:This morning, the Aurora Police Department is revealing that William Moore, thirty, has been arrested in connection with the January 18 homicide of Ebon Kelly, 29. The charges for which Moore is being held and investigated include second-degree murder and possession of a weapon by a previous offender…
Update: A just-released indictment related to Operation Sweet Leaf, in which 25 metro-area marijuana grows were raided, names 22-year-old Jordan Buehrer as the alleged ringleader of the scheme — although Buehrer’s LinkedIn profile suggests another name. The bare-bones page lists him as the owner of “jordans enterprises.”…
Update: We now know the name of the second person killed in a quadruple shooting at the Timberland Apartments in Colorado Springs on Tuesday: Andrew Encalade, age 23. If that name sounds familiar, it should. His older brother Adam, age 26, was injured in the gunplay but survived…
The sentencing hearing for former ER doc Louis Hampers has been delayed once again. Charged with writing 654 phony prescriptions in 2009 and 2010, Hampers pleaded guilty this past July to much less: fourteen counts of prescription drug fraud. His sentencing hearing was rescheduled from October to tomorrow, but it’s…
The most recent posts on the Caleb Pacheco (Wheres Caleb) Facebook page are haunting in the extreme. Why? The messages are paired with the photo of a child who’s most likely dead, and has been for months — and now, his mother, Sterling’s Juanita Kinzie, 24, has been arrested on…
Nineteen members of the Hell’s Lovers motorcycle gang appeared in court yesterday — so many that the suspects reportedly filled the jury box and flooded into the front-row area reserved for observers. That’s the scope of federal indictments on view below, which allege a slew of charges involving drugs, weapons,…
The more information that surfaces about Pueblo’s Jose Garcia, the creepier the allegations against him become. In addition to accusations that he prompted an Amber Alert by grabbing nine-year-old Calysta Cordova, who escaped, he’s been charged in a second sex assault on a child…
Last year, we told you about a Weekend at Bernie’s homage involving Mark Rubinson, Robert Young and a dead body — a joy ride that inspired Shotgun Willie’s to offer no cover for corpses after 7 p.m. Rubinson and Young have now pleaded guilty for the romp, which will likely…
The prospect of being stopped by what you think is a police officer, only to discover too late that it’s actually a vicious criminal, helps explain why Larimer County Sheriff’s Office took Heather Speicher’s report about being sexually assaulted by a cop impersonator so seriously. And why the LCSO is…
Update:There have been some new developments in the tragic story of Jenna Breen, who was killed in a hit-and-run accident with Viet Nguyen, a man with three previous DUI arrests. Below, get more information about the search for possible witnesses (or perhaps additional suspects), a fund in Jenna’s name, a…
