Marcus Bebb-Jones is a successful professional poker playing in the United Kingdom, having won the 2007 Grosvenor Grand Prix, among other big money competitions. But he’s got more to worry about beyond whether or not he should draw to an inside straight. He’s right now facing a forced return to…
As the Darrent Williams murder trial was winding down, another proceeding about an event with tragic consequences — the trial of Earl Ryan, who allegedly shot and killed a two-year-old boy, Noah Crookham, in 2008 — was getting underway. But while members of the Williams jury are considering the fate…
At 11:30 a.m. today, a meeting was scheduled to address a series of robberies that have struck the Auraria campus in recent days: A student was reportedly attacked in a parking lot on March 5, while two students were stabbed in a dorm and a woman was punched in a…
Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. The most recent updates for the day will be at the top; to check out the account chronologically at day’s end, read from the bottom up. Click here…
Since its first issue, slapped together in a prison cell two decades ago, Prison Legal News has run hundreds of articles on abuse and corruption in local jails and state and federal prisons, shining a light where few of the ladies and gents of the mainstream press care (or dare)…
The North Metro Task Force has been busy with marijuana busts in Adams County of late. There were two significant arrests in Broomfield during late February, with suspects in both cases claiming the weed was being grown for medical purposes. And the same assertion was made following two more marijuana-related…
Plenty of arrests are routine — but not the one that landed 23-year-old Richard Foster in a Boulder jail. Boulder Police Department spokeswoman Sarah Huntley describes the twisted series of events that took place on the 1000 block of Canyon Boulevard, between the Boulder Public Library and the city’s main…
One of last November’s most shocking stories involved Denver Police Department reports about a series of racially motivated attacks in LoDo, with the perpetrators allegedly choosing victims at random based on their Caucasian or Hispanic ethnicity. The DPD made over thirty arrests; see photos of the men and women busted…
Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. The most recent updates for the day will be at the top; to check out the account chronologically at day’s end, read from the bottom up. Click here…
All things considered, Ashton Daigle can consider himself a very lucky man. On March 5, the former surgery nurse was sentenced to 54 months in federal prison for “tampering with a consumer product” — a nice way of saying that he stole the painkiller fentanyl from Boulder Community Hospital and…
Early Saturday morning, Lindsey Howland, 24, was walking near Evans Avenue and Josephine Street when she was struck by a car. She wound up in critical condition, but she’s reportedly improving at this hour. Presumably not doing as well is Robert Jesse Gallegos, 22, who’s been held for investigation of…
The ongoing Darrent Williams murder trial has been filled with revelations about the continuing dangers of gang life that may come as a surprise to many people — but not to the Reverend Leon Kelly. As the executive director of the Open Door Youth Gang Alternative, he’s spent a quarter-century…
Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. The most recent updates for the day will be at the top; to check out the account chronologically at day’s end, read from the bottom up. Click here…
Update, 1:44 p.m.: The amount of the reward for information leading to the arrest of Lyndsay Pham’s killer or killers is now at $20,000, thanks to the offer of an additional $15,000 from Pham’s family and friends. The original item is below. Earlier, we told you about the stabbing murder…
Last week, we told you about Arthur Bittner, the man who had just been busted for not quite robbing a bank in Aurora on February 25. He may not have been as inept a criminal as it initially appeared; police now believe him to be the H1N1 Bandit, suspected in…
Veterans Suspected of Crimes Swap Guilty Pleas for Rehabilitation Just a few months ago, Iraq War veteran Nic Gray came to in a Colorado Springs jail cell, having been charged with crimes he couldn’t remember committing. The recent Westword feature “Martial Law” details Gray’s troubles — as well as how…
Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. The most recent updates for the day will be at the top; to check out the account chronologically at day’s end, read from the bottom up. Click here…
As crimes go, the one of which former CU student Abby Toll has been accused is hardly run of the mill. The Bouder Daily Camera describes it like so: “Toll is accused of binding her boyfriend’s 2-year-old shiba inu, Rex, in hair bands and packing tape and sticking him upside-down…
Yesterday, the Aurora Police Department responded to the Descano Plaza Apartments at 11102 East 16th Avenue There, they found the manager of the complex, who was suffering from multiple stab wounds that ended her life a short time later. Thus far, the APD isn’t identifying the woman, but it has…
Last July, when news broke about the arrest of University of Northern Colorado theater professor Vance Fulkerson — principally for secretly videotaping boys in his bathroom — a former Fulkerson student turned blogger who calls himself the Whup-Ass Master ripped the so-called “rug-wearing kiddie porn aficionado” a new one on…
Westword is covering the trial of Willie Clark, accused of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams early on New Year’s Day 2007. The most recent updates for the day will be at the top; to check out the account chronologically at day’s end, read from the bottom up. Click here…
Most behavioral experts recommend that people who’ve gone through something traumatic either directly or by association talk about their experiences rather than bottling them up inside. And thanks to technology, these emotions can be easily shared with the world at large. Take last week’s shootings at Deer Creek Middle School…
