Alleged wrong-way drunk driver Betsy Long, a onetime green-biz entrepreneur, faces vehicular homicide charges and more in a July 5 crash that killed Mary Warren, a 22-year old bound for the Peace Corps. And according to prosecutors, she cleared the legal .08 blood-alcohol-content limit with plenty of room to spare,…
If the mug shot of Vicente Solorzano, twenty, who’s wanted in a non-fatal shooting in Aurora on Monday night, looks familiar, it should. The same shot ran earlier this year in relation to a post about Project Big Freeze, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid targeting “transnational gangs with ties…
Sheridan Police Department confirms that a suspicious death over the weekend near the 2600 block of West Hampden along the Bear Creek bike trail was a homicide. No victim has been identified at this writing, but reports suggest that the victim was a 51-year-old female transient who may have died…
Update below: Yesterday, we shared a pair of updates about an over-the-weekend incident in which one man was killed, a second man (Filberto Alderete) was arrested for investigation of first-degree murder, and a third man (Daniel Alderete) was shot by police after allegedly refusing to drop a weapon — although…
Update below: Earlier today, we told you about a barbecue gone wrong in which Filberto Alderte was arrested regarding a first-degree murder investigation and Daniel Alderte was apparently shot by a Denver Police officer. The DPD is now confirming that Daniel was indeed the person shot by police, adding this…
To be a good burglar, a person needs stealth, toughness and a faulty moral compass. But apparently being bizarrely thin helps, too. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, a medical marijuana dispensary located at the posted address of Colorado Cannacare was robbed of paraphernalia, not weed, over the weekend…
Update below: What started out as a friendly barbecue erupted in chaos and confusion yesterday. The Denver Police Department says it responded to reports of shots fired to find a dead man, and a second man (reportedly ID’d by family as Daniel Alderte) holding a gun he didn’t drop until…
This sketch appears to show a nice, clean-cut young man. But what he’s suspected of doing was neither nice nor clean. Yesterday, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office says, a man fitting this description tried to grab a fourteen-year-old girl near the Cherry Knolls pool, and might have succeeded had she…
The Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, the nicknaming kings of local law enforcement, have another scofflaw on their radar: the JV Bandit, who earned his handle for wearing a letter jacket on one of his jobs. Go team! Will he be wrapped up as quickly as the Formally Known…
Something fishy appears to be going down in the Aurora Police Department. As Face the State’s Jared Jacang Maher reported yesterday, the Department of Justice is investigating the police force, apparently because of its recruitment practices…
Earlier today, we told you about a murder on East 36th Avenue. The Denver coroner has now identified the woman who died in the shooting as Katsina Roybal, 21. This isn’t the first time Roybal’s name has been in the news. She was indicted and convicted in relation to the…
Update below: As the temperatures have heated up, so has metro-area violence. In recent days, Montae Davis died after a shooting near Fairfax Liquors and Cesar Reyes was arrested for an Aurora triple shooting over the weekend. The latest homicide: A possible ambush shooting on East 36th Avenue that wounded…
Earlier today, we gave you the basics about a murder near Fairfax Liquors over the weekend. Moments ago, the Denver coroner’s office identified the victim of the shooting as Montae Davis, seventeen. According to a release, “The cause of death is gunshot wound to the chest. The manner of death…
The Robert Wallace case has all the trademarks of a justice-gone-awry tale. When Wallace, an 81-year-old Wheat Ridge resident, saw two men trying to steal his trailer this past February, he opened fire, hitting one of the men in the head. But the person busted in the shooting’s immediate aftermath…
See update below: Unfortunately, a triple shooting in Aurora wasn’t the only weekend homicide in the Denver metro area. Late last night, a man with a lethal gunshot wound was reportedly found near Fairfax Liquors, at 2801 Fairfax. However, Denver Police believe he was actually hit on the 2800 block…
We have a good news-bad news situation for racists and chauvinists. The good news? We’ve found a specialty in which white men continue to dominate. The bad news? The specialty in question is sex offenses. The U.S. Marshals Service has released its list of the top 100 most wanted sex…
See update below: At this point, the Aurora Police Department is sharing only a few details about a shooting that took place in Aurora early Sunday morning. All we know thus far are that three people were hit, and one of them subsequently died. Look below to see an interactive…
Ollie Eddington doesn’t work cheap — or at least he didn’t before being arrested on charges of theft and wronging at-risk adults. He’s accused of outrageously overcharging two elderly Boulder County residents for minor landscaping. How outrageously? Try $2,200 for trimming four-to-six small branches of a tree owned by a…
The Denver coroner’s office has released its list of homicides in Denver for the first half of 2010 — sixteen deaths. Some of those listed include straight-forward slayings , like the case of Douglass Singleton, who was allegedly killed by Peter Bellar in a marijuana transaction gone wrong. Others are…
On Tuesday, a $20,000 diamond was stolen from Cherry Creek Shopping Center’s Zales outlet in a crime caught on camera. First reaction: Why does a Zales have a $20,000 diamond? In case one of Denver’s “many” hip-hop stars needs a new bauble for his cane? Second reaction: Given how lax…
Earlier this week, we told you about the arrest of Thornton’s Charles Fisher, who allegedly murdered his wife, Belinda, and then set their house ablaze. Now, the Thornton Police Department has released an affadavit in which a supposedly suicidal Fisher describes waiting for Belinda to return from seeing Twilight: Eclipse…
Among the odder reports over the holiday weekend was one involving a possible suicide on a Broomfield sidewalk, with witnesses present. Had someone really offed himself in such a public place in front of others? Apparently not. The Broomfield Police Department has now decided that the shooting wasn’t a suicide…
