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…
The local FBI branch, not to mention the nickname-bestowing Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, is on a roll lately. First, the feds capture the alleged Super Freak Bandit, Lester Eugene Fowler. And now, Debra Flamio, 54, has been accused of being the Bad Hatter Bandit, who’s suspected of wearing…
The Denver Police Department has now identified a suspect in the stabbings of two people prior to an Insane Clown Posse concert last night. He’s Jeremy McKim, age twenty. But that’s not how he’s known on his ICP-loving MySpace page. There, he’s Luitenant Fetus, whose “About Me” blog begins: “ILL…
It took quite a while for Aspen authorities to formally accuse actor Charlie Sheen of wrongdoing following his December arrest for allegedly assaulting and threatening wife Brooke Mueller. But if TMZ.com is right, locals managed to make a charge stick. The site is reporting that Sheen will plead guilty to…
At about 1 a.m. this morning, representatives of the Littleton Police Department received multiple reports about gunfire at the Parkland Square apartment complex, near the border between Littleton and Englewood. A thus-far-undetermined number of these shots hit a man inside the apartment, and he later died of his wounds. Littleton…
Update, 9:32 a.m.: Denver Police Department spokesman Detective John White declines to identify the stabbing victims in the incident described below, but he says the name of the man arrested in the case may be available as soon as this afternoon. For more information, here’s our original item: Most attempts…
Last week, we told you about the latest bank robber named by the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force: the Super Freak Bandit, named for his curly wig, not because anyone suspected the late Rick James. Now, the feds think they’ve got their man — which explains why the holiday…
An arrest affidavit for Robert Laurencio Montoya is filled with one shock after another regarding his relationship with Kayleah Wilson, the twelve-year-old Greeley girl found dead last week. And now, it turns out that Montoya’s MySpace page, still active at this writing, refers to him as “Devil Nero.” His mood…
Those who’d spent weeks searching for, and praying for, twelve-year-old Kayleah Wilson had barely begun to process her death when news broke that Robert Laurencio Montoya, eighteen, had been charged with sexual assault due to an alleged sexual relationship with the girl that began last October. Yesterday, just prior to…
Approximately 400 people said goodbye to Kayleah Wilson at a memorial service in Greeley yesterday — the same day eighteen-year-old Robert Laurencio Montoya, who reportedly had a sexual relationship with the late twelve-year old, was in court on a sexual assault charge. In the meantime, tributes to the girl continue…
After outdoing itself earlier this week by way of its moniker for the Super Freak Bandit, the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, the agency charged with nicknaming local bank robbers, has taken on a new beat: fashion policing. Note that its latest alert focuses on a scofflaw dubbed the…
At this writing, a memorial service for Kayleah Wilson, who was twelve at the time of her death, is taking place in Greeley. But earlier today, the focus was on a person whose involvement in the case was little known by the general public until after her body was discovered…
When last we heard from John Mark Karr, the loonbag who managed to convince CU professor Michael Tracy that he’d killed JonBenét Ramsey, he had reportedly undergone a sex change and was now known as Alexis Valoran Reich. This prospect has spawned a Facebook group with the catchy name “STOP!!!…
The Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force has outdone itself this time. The office known for its clever names for at-large bank robbers has previously given us such memorable monikers as the H1N1 Bandit, the Tom Thumb Bandit, the Band-Aid Bandit and the recently charged Portfolio Bandit. But these handles…
On May 17, 2009, Westword launched Mile High Murder, a blog category tracking homicide in the seven county Denver/Boulder area. We thought the tragedies during year one had ended at ninety, with the death of elderly Charlene Ciacio, allegedly at the hands of her son, Michael Ciacio. But one more…
The confirmation of twelve-year-old Greeley resident Kayleah Wilson’s death transformed a Facebook page focusing on her safe return from a beacon of hope to a loving memorial. And that’s remained the case despite the unsettling news that Robert Laurencio Montoya, eighteen, has been arrested and charged with sex abuse, for…
