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…
Update, 4:16 p.m., March 30: The Thornton Police Department has now formally identified Liberty Ledezma as the victim in the Star Point condo complex fire. See the TPD release after the original item, published on March 29. Authorities have not yet confirmed the identity of the young woman who died…
“That Fireman Who Wants Your Drugs May Not Be a Fireman,” published back in February, noted that drugs had been stolen from ambulances at two Westminster fire stations, along with uniforms. Similar burglaries were reported at another eight metro-area stations. This crime wave was hot — but Westminster Police think…
Duel, Steven Spielberg’s 1971 feature-length directorial debut about a crazed trucker on a smash-and-trash spree, is well worth seeing — but residents of a Longmont neighborhood should probably wait a while before checking it out. After all, many of them just witnessed a version of it live. David Kent, a…
While the Aurora Police Department still has plenty of work to do regarding a double shooting yesterday at the Sommerset Gardens Apartments, the APD appears to have finally cleared a previously unsolved crime from its books. Diane Caldwell, 47, was found murdered in a field in November 1998 — but…
Jacob Joseph Medina has several distinguishing marks…Update, 6:50 a.m.:The Denver Police Department reports that Jacob Joseph Medina was captured without incident at approximately 4 p.m. yesterday at a business in northwest Denver. Look below to read our original item about the search for Medina, published on March 26. The Denver…
Deadly gunplay erupted in a parking lot near the Sommerset Gardens Apartments in Aurora yesterday. The result: two people dead and two in custody. No members of this quartet have been identified to date. Early reports suggested that the Aurora Police Department was looking for a third suspect, but that’s…
Last November, we told you about shootings at Club Posh following a Halloween-night bash. Several days later, John Singleton died of his injuries. Singleton’s murder didn’t get much media attention beyond initial incident reports and our blog featuring memories about him shared by his wife, Maria Singleton-McGaughy. But the case…
On Friday, Corporate Accountability International called for McDonald’s to dump Ronald McDonald as its mascot, arguing that he’s a negative factor when it comes to addressing childhood obesity. Cut to early Sunday morning, when the Colorado Springs Police Department reports that two women were robbed at a local Burger King…
There seems to be some misunderstanding about marijuana law in Colorado. Medical marijuana has been legalized via Amendment 20, although there are plenty of disagreements about how the system should work, as our interview with Senator Chris Romer earlier today proves. But while possession of small amounts of marijuana has…
Ever since Northglenn Detective Daniel Joyce and Thornton Detective Robert Lopez filed a lawsuit last week alleging corruption within Operation Fortune Cookie, the news media has been rehashing the long, strange tale of the state’s largest — and likely most convoluted – indoor weed bust. (Here’s a play-by-play primer on…
The warrant out for Ari Misha Liggett’s arrest didn’t mention anything about potentially explosive chemicals. According to Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office bureau chief Bruce Williamson, the Centennial man was wanted for illegal weapons possession — specifically, a silencer. But Liggett’s arrest at a UPS office yesterday afternoon led to a…
American kids are born capitalists — capable of understanding that they can make some folding green from another kind of green just lying around the house. Example? A teen in Carbondale was busted for bringing some of his dad’s medical marijuana to middle school and selling it to students. Tony…
The Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, the focus of a 2008 Westword feature, has proven again and again that nicknaming thugs is among the most powerful weapons in its arsenal. If not for them, alleged scofflaws such as the Hoppin Hooded Bandits and the $83 Bandit would be merely…
Those of you who thought indecent exposure and child enticement were a young man’s game need look no further than the sketch seen here to be disabused of that notion. The Boulder County Sheriff’s Office suspects that a man in his sixties or seventies may have been responsible for two…
With the sentencing of prominent restaurant owner Dan Tang this coming Wednesday, March 31, it seemed like the long, strange tale of Operation Fortune Cookie would finally be coming to an end. What started more than two and a half years ago as a vague police tip blossomed into the…
