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…
Rhonda Fields says nothing could ever fill the void left when her son, Javad Marshall-Fields, a material witness in a murder case, was gunned down in Aurora in 2005. But she says Marshall-Fields lives on through a scholarship at CSU, which she struggled to keep afloat until a surprise $300,000…
The Littleton Police Department and federal authorities in Detroit believe that Franklin Gonzalo Sierra-Rodriguez was responsible for the apparent assassination of a man in Littleton, now identified as Joaquin Lucero-Carillo. But there’s a lot more to the story than that. The murder took place amid a DEA drug investigation that’s…
Local pro-skier-turned-swinger-magnate Scottie Ewing grabbed headlines after federal charges were filed against him last week for allegedly failing to pay taxes on the Denver Sugars and Denver Players Club, a high-end prostitution service he owned and sold in 2005. Along the way, attention is being drawn to former Westword staffer…
According to Lt. Gary Toldness, public information officer for the Federal Heights Police Department, cops don’t have much to go on so far in their search for three individuals in a shooting early this morning on the 2500 block of West 91st Drive that left one man dead. In fact,…
Woe to anyone who gets between a pot smoker and his stash. That’s the lesson learned by a Boulder Police officer, who reportedly had to tase a man who threw a frying pan at her out of frustration that he couldn’t get to his weed. Strangely, though, he may have…
News that Superior resident Stephanie Rochester, 34, has been arrested on suspicion that she killed her six-month-old son, Rylan, is shocking in and of itself. She’s reportedly on suicide watch at Boulder County Jail. But the jolt is amplified by Internet trails that portray Stephanie, Rylan and husband Lloyd as…
The vast majority of people asking for change at intersections want, well, change. That wasn’t the case last month at East Mississippi and Peoria Street in Aurora, where two men approached a woman’s car requesting some coin — and then sexually assaulted her. Look here to see a composite sketch…
