Update, 4:32 p.m.: Just notified by the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office that Merle Allison, who’s believed to be the Limping Latex Bandit, has been captured. Look below the original item to get all the details. As the number of Denver area robberies continue to capture the imagination of TV news…
The latest legal chapter in the up-and-down life of Brian Bonsall, former child star and Family Ties cast member, has been closed. As the Boulder Daily Camera reports, Bonsall pleaded guilty to felony menacing and third-degree assault. In exchange, he’s been sentenced to forty hours of community service, five days…
Will Willie Clark be sentenced to life in prison for murdering Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams in a drive-by in 2007? If he is, Denver will know immediately. Television stations, radio stations and websites will be allowed to broadcast Clark’s April 30 sentencing live, according to an order written by Judge…
Yesterday, we shared a mug shot in which registered sex offender Dustin Winesberry poses like that velvet-voiced guy in Old Spice commercials. At the time, Bruce Haas, administrative commander for the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office’s jail division, said he, too, was surprised by the snap and said he planned to…
The item in William James Rucker’s Crown Royal bag packed quite a kick — maybe because it was manufactured by Smith & Wesson. Rucker, who’d been convicted of five previous crimes punishable by over a year in stir, took imprisonment to the next level yesterday, when he was sentenced to…
Back in February, we told you about a Boulder woman who woke up to discover a stranger’s hands in her underwear, even though her boyfriend was beside her. At the time, Boulder Police Department spokeswoman Sarah Huntley said, “There hasn’t been an incident like this in town for quite some…
Stories of animal abuse don’t get much stranger or more disgusting that the one involving two pigs at Venetucci Farm, a 190-acre spread near Colorado Springs that was donated to the Pikes Peak Community Foundation in 2006. According to Lieutenant Lari Sevene, public information officer for the El Paso Sheriff’s…
For politicians, being arrested is never a good thing — and the combination of alcohol and firearms doesn’t improve the situation. Yet David Cox, one of three Republicans running for Colorado House District 54, has no plans to stop running — and he’s clearly hoping his extremely detailed explanation of…
Words commonly used to describe mug shots include “menacing,” “pathetic,” “disturbing” and “hilarious” — but usually not “sexy.” So congrats, Dustin Winesberry. The seductive, come-hither mug shot taken of you yesterday at Boulder County Jail looks like the cover of a ’70s-era album — say, Dustin Winesberry Gets Next to…
The drama continues around Operation Fortune Cookie, the largest weed bust in state history, which imploded amid accusations of snitching cops, paid-off politicians and bureaucratic retribution. Last week, the drug investigation’s main suspect, politically connected restaurateur Dan Tang, received eighteen months in prison for a single money laundering charge he…
The Denver Coroner’s Office has released information on homicides in the city during the final quarter of 2009 and the first quarter of 2010 — January through March. And while there certainly has been no shortage of bloodshed during our current year, the end of last year was worse. The…
Update, 4 p.m.: The Aurora Police Department has released more information about the arrest of Steven Johnston. The details are included below the original item. Earlier this week, we told you about a double homicide at the Sommerset Gardens Apartments in Aurora, with the victims later being identified as Jarrel…
Jamie Paulin-Ramirez of Leadville may already have earned her own Kenny Be spotlight comic. But until today, she hadn’t been formally charged with wrongdoing in relation to an alleged terrorist plot to slay a Swedish cartoonist. Now, however, Paulin-Ramirez has joined Colleen R. LaRose, known as both “Fatima LaRose” and…
Don’t know what a guy expected yesterday when he responded to a text message from a woman he’d just met inviting him to come over. Maybe a friendly conversation — or a glass of white wine — or a booty call straight out of a hip-hop video. Instead, what he…
The Parker Police Department’s announcement that it had arrested Michael R. Frazier, 47, in an Internet sex sting isn’t particularly out of the ordinary — except for the final paragraph. “Attached is a mug shot of Frazier and we ask the media that if you run the story on air…
So… you and your pals are slinging marijuana and cocaine, and you’re scheduled to make an exchange with a buyer. What do you bring with you? The product? Check. A gun? Check. Anything else? Oh yeah: A fourteen-month-old girl. That’s the allegation made against four Colorado Springs men in regard…
Earlier this week, we told you about a double homicide near the Sommerset Garden Apartments in Aurora. The victims have now been identified: Jarrel Jordan Rivers, eighteen, and Paul Maurice Chatman, 28. However, the two suspects who were grabbed shortly after the police arrived on scene are no longer in…
This afternoon, Chief U.S. District Judge Wiley Y. Daniel sentenced prominent Thornton restaurant owner Dan Tang to eighteen months in prison for his part in the largest marijuana bust in state history — more than the probation requested by his lawyers, but considerably less than the seventy to 87 months…
Today at 9:30 a.m., Chief U.S. District Judge Wiley Y. Daniel began the sentencing hearing for Dan Tang, the last person charged as part of Operation Fortune Cookie, the largest marijuana bust in state history. Law enforcement believed Tang, a prominent Thornton restaurateur who’s served mayors, governors and former President…
Update, 3:20 p.m.: Two arrests have been made in this case, with a third suspect sought. Photos of the eighteen-year-old suspects, plus more information from the Lakewood Police Department, are on view after the original item, published at 11:20 a.m. Grudges against colleges, high schools and even middle schools aren’t…
Early this morning, members of the Northglenn Police Department were called to the 11600 block of Grant Street. They soon came upon blood. A lot of it. The NPD says a male adult and a male juvenile were found stabbed nearby; they’ve been transported to Denver Health. So, too, was…
Another day, another cold case belatedly moved forward by DNA. Yesterday, we told you about Kevin LeWayne McKinney, who’s been charged in the 1998 murder of Diane Caldwell. Today, it’s Roderick Elias, formally accused of murdering 22-year-old Kristen Kay Swanson in 1980 — so long ago that she’d waitressed at…
