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…
On Tuesday, we told you about the murder of Nathan Bozonier, 16, who was hit by a vehicle and then beaten by an unknown number of suspects. The latest developments: Part of the bumper from the vehicle that struck Bozonier fell off at the crime scene — and this chunk…
What is it with bizarre flight disruptions lately? First there was the man who commandeered a bathroom and insisted on shaving topless — followed by the drunken guy who tried to disembark from a plane in midair. And now, the latest installment in Denver’s uproarious passengers saga: North Carolina’s Alan…
Yesterday, the Justice Department formally accused Highlands Ranch’s Chris Bartkowicz of “possession with intent to manufacture, distribute or dispense 224 marijuana plants” — greenery the Drug Enforcement Administration discovered in his house thanks to a story on 9News, as DEA special agent Jeffrey Sweetin acknowledged in a Westword interview. Since…
Last August, we told you about an indictment against Donald Hertz, a Washington man who made threats against Boulder’s Dr. Warren Hern, the last practitioner in the U.S. still doing late-term abortions. It looked as if Hertz would plead guilty to the charges against him — but yesterday, he unexpectedly…
Back in November, Andrew Gelston Graham was found dead on a lawn near his suburban home, and in the immediate aftermath of the crime, clues were scarce. Even videos taken of Graham and other passengers as they disembarked from the light rail shortly before he was attacked didn’t immediately lead…
Plenty of people apparently witnessed the murder of Nathan Bozonier, 16, early Monday morning. But how many of them have contracted a case of voluntary laryngitis remains a matter of debate. Bozonier was run down by a vehicle before being beaten by a group of people who were then confronted…
Two people are dead as a result of a thoroughly unromantic incident that took place on Valentine’s Day in Glendale — Narima Dzhulfayeva, who was allegedly murdered by Roberto Silva, and Silva himself, who subsequently killed himself while at the Arapahoe County Detention Facility by jumping off a second-floor walkway…
It’s no surprise that Said Ali Mohamud was arrested by Boulder cops for driving drunk last week. He’s reportedly had numerous alcohol-related infractions since 2008. More unexpected was his ability to circumvent the alcohol-monitoring ankle bracelet he wore by stuffing some plastic between this doodad and his skin, thereby preventing…
View Larger Map Last week, we told you about a triple stabbing early on Super Bowl Sunday that left two men injured and one dead at 675 S. Raleigh Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). The Denver…
An argument at El Jalisciense II Mexican Restaurant early Saturday morning resulted in the death of one man and the arrest of another for investigation of first degree murder. The Lakewood Police Department describes Joel Vargas-Ramirez, 28, as a “habitual traffic offender.” According to an LPD release, he fled the…
Yet another memorably monikered scofflaw is allegedly off the streets. First it was Timothy McGlothin, thought to be one of the Hoppin Hooded Bandits, whose arrest was announced yesterday. And now it’s Richard Charles MacNeill, who Aurora Police think is the so-called Band-Aid Bandit, who’s allegedly been sticking it to…
When we posted a mug-shot roster of Denver sex offenders who’d failed to register earlier today, we had no idea we’d be establishing a theme. But this blog was followed by items about two sex offenders in Boulder — one who molested a woman while she was in bed alongside…
