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…
Elizabeth “Betsy” Long is accused of drunkenly driving the wrong way on I-25 and causing a crash that killed Mary Warren, a young CSU grad bound for the Peace Corps. It’s a far cry from the portrait of Long presented by GreenEdgeDenver.com, a site designed to promote environmentally friendly businesses…
We knew working out is good for you, but this is ridiculous. According to a “What’s Your Workout” story in the July 6 Wall Street Journal, exercise helped Mayor John Hickenlooper not only shave off ten pounds, but ten years — since the article initially said he was 48 years…
In recent months, two high school coaches — Broomfield’s Trevor Masse and Longmont’s Alex Tinsley — have been busted on suspicion of inappropriate sexual contact with students. So the five-year sentence handed to Roberto Rodriguez, a middle-school soccer coach, for doing pretty much the same thing, should sound a cautionary…
Kidnappings of the child-custody variety are all too common these days. But they don’t often involve disagreements between grandparents. That seems to be what’s happening in the case of Matthew Garcia, eight, whose grandfather, Leo Garcia, is suspected of taking him. Look below to see a photo of Matthew, as…
The communities north of Denver have seen more than their fair share of homicides lately. Sean and Staci Griffin, murdered in a Boulder flooring store. Superior’s Stephanie Rochester, charged in the killing of her infant son. Boulderite Thomas Holloway, eyed in the shooting of his elderly stepfather. And now Thorton’s…
Animal cruelty cases don’t get much more inexplicable than this one: Arapahoe County’s Lopez family returned from an outing this past weekend to discover Conrad, their pet English bulldog, dead in a partially filled bathtub. The case is so uncommon that Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson isn’t even sure how…
Let-out at area nightspots can be volatile, which is why Denver cops often hang near venues like Club Vinyl, at 1082 Broadway. Which explains why they were on the scene almost instantly when gunfire broke out nearby early this morning…
The story of Alex Tinsley, a Longmont High School teacher and karate club “sensei” arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child, started out creepy — and it definitely hasn’t changed directions. The latest: Tinsley reportedly told police he had multiple trysts with the student in his pickup truck…
We recently told you about the arrest of Jared Jimenez on suspicion of child abuse resulting in death. Now the Denver District Attorney’s Office has formally charged Jimenez with first degree murder and several other counts, and the statement of probable cause in the case makes it clear why. In…
