The conviction of controversy magnet Douglas Bruce on tax evasion charges has touched off some high-pitched gloating on liberal-leaning political websites, as well as the expected musings on the irony of the Taxpayer Bill of Rights godfather getting busted by the tax man. For those who hate TABOR, it’s apparently…
Things are about to get strange. In recent days, we’ve shared mug-shot roundups featuring intimidating images, celebrities and notables, tattoos and women. But now, here are the weirdest shots 2011 has had to offer. And as those who lived through it know, it was a mighty weird year. Give the…
Seven years ago inmates at a private prison in southeastern Colorado went on an all-night rampage, chasing the shorthanded staff from the premises, attacking suspected snitches, setting fires and causing millions of dollars in damages. Now documents filed in a long-running legal battle confirm what many prisoners have been saying…
Mug shots of women are less common than those of men. But this year, there was a bumper crop of the former. Now, in the wake of collections that spotlighted intimidating images, celebrities and notables, tattoos and hairstyles, here are the fifty most memorable images of female arrestees in 2011…
Update by Melanie Asmar, 3:30 p.m. December 20: Oscar Ponce has been formally charged with two counts: sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust and sexual assault on a child by a person in a position of trust, pattern of abuse. The charges allege…
The Denver area seems to have a lot of bank robbers, and the FBI and local law enforcement officials like to tell them apart with funny or clever nicknames. We’ve had the Shaggy Bandit, the Perennial Bandit, the Snowboard Bandits, and the Band-Aid Bandit, just to name a few. But…
Our annual look at the year’s most memorable mug shots is just getting started. We kicked off with collections focusing on intimidating images and snaps of celebrities and notables. Now, check out those jailbound models with the most interesting facial and neck tattoos. See them below, and be sure to…
On a Sunday night in November, four Larimer County Jail inmates allegedly squirted feces and urine at deputies using shampoo bottles, flooding part of the facility and starting what officials called a riot. Now, the four men in question have been identified and charged with nine separate counts that could…
Our 2011 mug shot showcase rolls on. Yesterday, we shared our picks for the year’s ten most intimidating images. Now, cast your eyes on celebrities and notables who earned booking photos of their own, featuring several past and present Denver Broncos (what would Timmy say?), a Hollywood star having a…
This week’s cover story, “The Case of the Kidnapped Coed,” revisits the wild press coverage surrounding the 1948 murder of eighteen-year-old college student Theresa Foster — and explores how the Denver Post’s rabid campaign to catch a killer tainted the subsequent trial. It’s a cautionary tale about how pseudo-experts (in…
In 2003, Heather DeWild disappeared two days before her divorce was to be finalized, and she was found dead weeks later. From the beginning, suspicion fell on her supposed-to-be-ex, Daniel, but no arrests were made — until now. Daniel, his twin brother David and David’s wife Roseanne, have all been…
It’s that time again, when we round up the most memorable mug shots of the year. We’ll share a slew of collections for the next couple of weeks, leading up to our top choices — an array so hefty that a single blog post won’t be able to contain them…
Glen Godec’s Photobucket page features well over 1,000 images, most seemingly benign. But the closer you look, the more you notice that the preponderance of shots feature little girls — a fact that’s been rendered ultra-creepy by news that Godec has been busted on a couple of sex-crime charges in…
It started as a routine domestic-violence report. But there was nothing routine about what followed: a standoff between David Orton and thirteen police officers that went on for a lead-filled four hours. Orton’s reward: a 180-year prison sentence. Here are the details that earned Orton two generous lifetimes behind bars…
In October, Marc O’Leary pleaded guilty to brutally raping three women, including a 65-year-old, and attempting to do the same to a fourth who dove out a window to escape. He’s now received his punishment: 327-and-a-half years in prison. And as is clear from the account below, he more than…
Update: Just heard from Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mark Techmeyer about the arrests last week of Cannabis & Co. owner Dmitry Genzer and associate Joseph Alejo, and the seizure of around 175 pounds of weed. In the process, we discovered some misinformation. Techmeyer says the busts came not as…
When Army recruit Matt Strickland was assigned to spend a month training in Louisiana in preparation for overseas deployment, he reportedly trusted his girlfriend, Melissa Alexander, to care for his one-year-old daughter. The decision had fatal consequences: The tot’s dead and Alexander faces a possible first-degree murder charge…
Last month, we told you about the arrest of Anthony Harvey, home-decor expert and alleged drug-ring leader, as part of a law-enforcement operation dubbed Project White Out. Now, another of the accused participants in the scheme, Jimmie Joe Montgomery, has been taken into custody as well — but only after…
Zachary Meints, a volunteer coach for the youth-oriented Boulder Hockey Club, was arrested yesterday on five Internet sexual exploitation of a child counts — a disturbing development by any measure. But equally troubling for parents of team members is evidence that club officials knew about the allegations for two months…
Shortly after Boulder deputy Rick Ferguson’s arrest for Internet luring and sexual exploitation of a child, one of his colleagues was personally involved in a crime, too — but as a victim, not the alleged perpetrator. He was burglarized, and the thief or thieves got away with lotsa tools of…
Rick Ferguson was a member of the Boulder Sheriff’s Office for thirty years — an impressive run by any measure. But it’s come to an end, at least for now, and in an extremely distressing way. This week, Ferguson was arrested on five counts, most pertaining to Internet luring of…
Ex-Arapahoe County Sheriff Pat Sullivan, busted for allegedly trading meth for sex, has now bonded out of the Patrick J. Sullivan Detection Facility, a jail named for him. But officials still plan to revisit the policy of naming public buildings after living people. And Commissioner Rod Bockenfeld thinks honoring dead…
