A day after the Marcus Duran shooting was ruled a justifiable homicide amid reports that the homeowner who fired the fatal shots has received threats, another potential Make-My-Day incident took place — this one in Colorado Springs. The Springs-area homeowner reportedly shot at two men trying to bust into his…
In March, we shared a mug shot gallery of Denver’s fifty most wanted criminals — and McConney Bronson placed fifteenth. Now, he’s number seven in the second year of our Mile High Murder blog — and Pernell Hines is a suspect in the incident…
The homicide that took place yesterday afternoon two blocks east of Monaco on 39th Avenue, near Martin Luther King Park, is turning into a pretty open-and-shut case. Police responding to a call about two men in a loud argument arrived at the scene only to find one of the men…
Murders, forgers, tax evaders. They’re all scumbags to varying degrees, but none is as scummy as the sex offender. And while you’d never know if you had a multiple murderer living next to you, sex offenders have to register. A lot of them don’t, which has a lot to do…
Charlie Sheen was supposed to sign off on a sweet plea bargain last week. Rumor has it that the Pitkin County Sheriff is recommending a work-release program for the actor in exchange for his pleading no contest to felony menacing and 3rd-degree assault and criminal mischief in connection with his…
Every week we explore the annals of recent shmuckdom. This week: An alleged murderer who accidentally wound up in Houston. Some weeks the shmucks just reach out and grab you. This was one of those weeks, thanks to the sinister moron Franklin Gonzalo Sierra-Rodriguez. Sierra-Rodriguez is accused of driving from…
It’s a thrill a minute in the police blotter featured in the YourHub.com print edition for Lakewood and Edgewater (the items aren’t online). First up is a mom who calls the cops on her drunk son. And then, the coup de grâce — a man found in his car with…
These days, we’re accustomed to cold cases heating up due to DNA evidence of the sort that earned Tim Masters $10 million for a false murder conviction. But DNA wasn’t a factor in the arrest this week of Dean Evan Scott for the 2002 murder of Willie Robinson. Aurora Police…
Two associates of Willie Clark, who was convicted in March of Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams’s 2007 murder, were sentenced today to a year in prison each for refusing to testify at his trial, despite the fact that prosecutors say they were with Clark when he shot into Williams’ limo. As…
Update, 3:33 p.m.: Read it below the original 11:47 a.m. item. The Nuggets’ J.R. Smith had a rough season, spending more time in the doghouse than outside it. But the doghouse may have been safer than the Cherry Hills Country Club mansion he’s been renting. Burglars messed with his Mercedes,…
Shortly after nabbing the Bad Hat Bandit, the folks at the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force are hoping to pluck a guy they’ve nicknamed the Perennial Bandit. He’s thought to have hit the same Bank of the West branch twice, almost exactly a year apart. Spring has sprung, and…
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett, who’s challenging John Suthers for the job of Colorado Attorney General, was able to burnish his law-and-order credentials today via the actions of a grand jury, which just handed down a 127-count, seventeen-person indictment aimed at a Longmont drug ring. Charges include racketeering and theft…
Reports that Charlie Sheen’s plea deal on domestic violence charges in Aspen is faltering because he won’t be allowed to smoke while on work release have left some of us court-watchers flummoxed. After all, Aspen is a celebrity-prone place. You’d think all that experience accommodating the special needs of hyper-extended…
Update, 4:32 p.m.: DA’s Office spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough says today’s scheduled hearing was continued to 12:45 p.m. on Thursday. Previous update and item below. Update, 12:13 p.m.: Mario Anderson and Kataina “Markie” Jackson-Keeling, who didn’t show up on time for a sentencing hearing yesterday, are in custody. They’re now slated…
The horrible story of Stephanie Rochester, the apparently perfect Superior mom arrested on suspicion that she killed her infant son, Rylan, just got worse. A newly released affidavit (check it out below) details her ultimately successful efforts to smother the boy, motivated by her fears that he was autistic…
Update, 4:40 p.m.: David Hesch appeared in court this afternoon. Get the details of what happened below. A fifty-year-old Loveland man has been arrested for mailing a nutso letter written by his (apparently) nutso father to Michigan Congressman Bart Stupak. It threatens to paint a local bridge red with his…
That old maxim about never bringing a knife to a gunfight seemingly pertains to an incident on Friday in which Leon Barrett, 54, has been arrested. According to the Denver Police Department, the still-unnamed victim hit Barrett with a blunt object — after which Barrett allegedly shot him in the…
Last Thursday, a trio of suspects in Federal Heights robbed one person at his car and then shot and killed a second man inside an apartment. Authorities have now identified the victim as Brandon Putnam, 24, whose MySpace page describes his profession as “Super Roofer.” As for his most recent…
Last November, the Denver Police Department announced the arrest of more than thirty African-American men and women for allegedly participating in racially motivated attacks on Caucasians and Hispanics; click here to see a mug shot gallery. Now, Channel 4 has obtained startling video related to such an attack — surveillance…
Each week, we introduce you to the week’s biggest shmuck. Whose turn is it to shine? Read on. Cheryl Fugett didn’t show up in court on Thursday. No, the sixty-year-old former director of the Jefferson County Children’s Alliance missed the ending of her case, in which a jury convicted her,…
All too often, we stupid Caucasian Americans look at Middle Easterners and assume they’re all alike. But hatreds know no border in the region, with folks occasionally despising each other due to nationality, religious origin and more. Which helps explain why Fahad Alqusumi, 21, and Majed Alnufaie, 29, have been…
Puppies: They’re wonderful to hug. But cuddling up with the guy in Wheat Ridge who’s been chatting up kids about them would be infinitely less enjoyable. According to the Wheat Ridge Police Department, a middle-aged man has been asking girls ranging from seven to ten years old if they could…
