As I mentioned in my earlier blog about the shootings at Deer Creek Middle School, my daughters, who attended there three short years ago, studied math under the tutelage of Dr. David Benke, who’s credited with tackling gunman Bruco Eastwood, likely preventing much more bloodshed. As such, they eagerly signed…
Journalists can write about many events dispassionately, but not all — and for me, there’s no chance in hell of tackling the topic of the shootings yesterday afternoon at Deer Creek High School with distanced objectivity. All three of my children attended Deer Creek. My twin daughters went through 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 will be at the top; to check out the account chronologically at day’s end, read from the bottom up. 6:19 p.m.: Denver police Detective…
You’ve heard about goons who disguise themselves as police officers to make doing nasty business easier, right? Well, the men and women of the Westminster Fire Department are afraid someone with a taste for high-grade narcotics may try something similar while wearing stolen firefighters duds. The WFD reports that two…
As the Darrent Williams murder trial is getting underway, another high-profile trial has come to an end. A jury has found Francis Hernandez responsible for the deaths of three people in a 2008 crash at a Baskin Robbins. Among the victims: three-year-old Marten Kudlis, whose funeral the Rocky Mountain News…
At around 9 p.m. on Friday night, a former member of the military who uses medical marijuana to deal with pain from a back injury, stopped at the 24/7 Health Care Center, at 3535 Walnut Street. Upon his arrival, he saw an unmarked police car parked in the lot. Nearby…
Earlier this month, we told you about bathroom graffiti at Boulder High School that read “Everyone will die 2/12/10.” Fortunately, this threat proved empty — but hot on its heels comes another one almost identical to it. At Broomfield High School, graffiti found on a bathroom wall declared that everyone…
Update, 7:38 p.m.: Ten men and eight women were chosen today to sit on the jury in the Willie Clark case. Clark, 26, is accused of killing Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams in a drive-by shooting on New Year’s Day 2007. Clark’s trial starts tomorrow at 9 a.m…
Former Family Ties cast member Brian Bonsall’s latest arrest would have made news even if he hadn’t claimed that the marijuana in his system during a positive drug test had been used for medicinal purposes (despite the fact that he doesn’t haven’t the required license). After all, his last booking…
Update, 1:21 p.m.: The Associated Press is reporting that Aurora’s Najibullah Zazi has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction and counts of conspiracy to commit murder in a foreign country and providing material support for a terrorist organization. See our original item below:…
Tomorrow, a jury of eighteen Denver County residents will begin to hear evidence that Willie Clark killed Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams on New Year’s Day 2007. They’ll also hear evidence that he didn’t, in a trial that’s expected to take two weeks and include testimony from convicted gang members,…
Back in December, Family Ties moppet turned accused assaulter Brian Bonsall made our Busted Former Child Star Mug Shot Hall of Fame thanks to the image seen here — and his arrest back then apparently whetted his appetite for even more interactions with law enforcement. On Friday, he was back…
Do Denver police detectives hide evidence in secret folders? Lawyers for accused murderer Willie Clark say they do. Other defense attorneys agree. But prosecutors do not; they say attorneys regularly have access to police files. The issue came up yesterday at a pre-trial hearing in connection with Clark’s case. Clark,…
In an update published just over six hours ago about the murder of sixteen-year-old Nathan Bozonier — the item that concerned the discovery of an aluminum baseball bat covered with graffiti-like markings that may have been used in the crime — Thornton Police Department spokesman Officer Matt Barnes insisted that…
Back in November, when we told you about an attempt by a man to steal an ATM in Boulder by ripping it out of a wall using a stolen U-Haul truck, we wrote that the most amazing thing about the perpetrator wasn’t “that he thought the scheme might actually work…
This week, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office revealed that they’d closed the 1970 murder of Harold “Nicky” Nicholson. Not that the alleged slayer — Jake Dwight Jones, Nicholson’s father in law — will be prosecuted for the crime. Investigators discovered that he died in 1979 after assuming a new identity,…
The murder early Monday morning of Thornton’s Nathan Bozonier, 16, didn’t take place in isolation. The Thornton Police Department says Bozonier was hit by a car, then struck by an aluminum bat while surrounded by a group of people who were run off by a number of others. In the…
Among the many nicknames given bank robbers by the FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force (profiled in this Westword feature), the $83 Bandit may be one of the strangest. According to a Joel Warner blog about another wanted man with a clever moniker, the Shaggy Bandit, the $83 Bandit…
One blog about Denver. Two blogs about Denver. Three blogs about Denver. In noting that Brandon Marshall, Elvis Dumervil and D.J. Williams are all listed as potential defense witnesses in the upcoming trial of Willie Clark, who’s accused of murdering Darrent Williams, Jon Krause at Broncos Zone writes, “We have…
No doubt the parents of CU students who live on campus will be alarmed when they hear about the arrest early this morning of a man being investigated for kidnapping, sexual assault and other crimes. But CU-Boulder Police public information officer Molly Bosley wants to head off as much panic…
Perhaps there was some confusion on the part of Nicholas Lorenzo, 25. After all, he worked behind a meat counter at a Louisville Safeway — so he might have thought beating his own meat was part of the job. According to the Boulder Daily Camera, Lorenzo was arrested on January…
Looks like Longmont’s Jason Kay will get a chance to suffer for his art. Last month, Kay came up with the idea of relabeling Gatorade bottles with photos of golfer Tiger Woods and his wife alongside the word “Unfaithful” and then placing them on grocery store shelves — a stunt…
