Prior to last year’s Naked Pumpkin Run, Boulder district attorney Stan Garnett told Westword that the charges available to use in relation to the event didn’t fit the crime — or whatever the hell you’d call stripping off your clothes and dashing around with a pumpkin shell on your head…
As we told you last week, a man was found dead in an SUV at the Cottonwood Trail Apartments in Aurora — and police were investigating it as a homicide. Since then, the victim has been identified as William Harvey, reportedly a member of the CU Buffs football team in…
Charlie Sheen’s got responsibilities he’d rather avoid in both the non-fiction and fiction universes. On Wednesday, he’s scheduled to appear in an Aspen courtroom in relation to a Christmas day incident when he allegedly threatened and assaulted his wife, Brooke. His lawyers are doing their damnedest to make sure the…
William Erickson, who passed away this week at the age of 85, will long be remembered for his remarkable 25 years on the Colorado Supreme Court and a host of other accomplishments. But he will also be known for his most abysmal failure — the Columbine Review Commission he headed,…
The crime spree of Bonnie and Clyde 2.0 was not nearly as long or storied as their namesakes. Last week, we told you about the couple, who were accused of one bank robbery and several other armed robberies in the Greeley area. But they didn’t hang around town, glorying in…
Thieves tend to swipe items that are easy to fence, like TVs and other electronic gadgets. So does that mean there’s suddenly a market for giant bronze crosses? Doubt it — and that’s what has the Lakewood Police Department worried. On Tuesday, some enterprising masochist slipped into chapel at the…
Early Wednesday, a man was found dead at the Cottonwood Trail Apartments, near the intersection of East Virginia and South Hampden in Aurora. At this writing, the Aurora Police Department hasn’t issued a release on the incident, but APD spokesman Lt. Sam McGhee provides details. “At about 7:30 a.m. yesterday…
View Larger MapThe two young men slain in a double homicide during the early hours of January 11 have been identified by the Denver Coroner’s Office. They are Lonell Franklin, 21, and DeShon Lee, 19; Lee was still alive when he was transported to Denver Health from the 3300 block…
Charlie Sheen has made some nice coin over the years working in front of cameras. But apparently he doesn’t want to do so for free — especially when it pertains to his December 25 arrest in Aspen for allegedly threatening and assaulting his wife, Brooke Mueller, with whom he now…
We knew Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene wouldn’t go away quietly. But with the help of attorney David Lane, he’s managing to make noise even while serving a jail sentence for pretending that his son, Falcon, had floated away in an inflatable silver chef’s hat. Lane’s claim: The amount law…
Confirmation that the federal government has no sense of humor: The book is being thrown at Longmont’s Jason Kay, whose sin was to relabel Gatorade bottles with a photo of Tiger Woods and his wife Elin and the word “Unfaithful.” As is obvious from an affidavit by special agent Daniel…
Was a betta fish targeted during a home invasion in Boulder? Consider the evidence. According to the Boulder Daily Camera, a nineteen-year-old woman awoke during the wee hours of Monday morning to find an unknown man in her apartment. When she yelled, he split — and because she initially assumed…
View Larger Map Predictably, those good news stories about the murder rate in Denver being down in 2009 have been followed by bloodshed aplenty. Example: two homicides took place late last night near the intersection of Martin Luther King Boulevard and Adams Street, an area captured in the graphic above…
When, in this post-9/11 world, we hear a story about a plane making an unscheduled landing due to the actions of a man with a name that sounds Middle Eastern, most of us instantly think: Where was he hiding the explosives, and did he burn his balls trying to light…
Thomas Leurck is from Superior — but that doesn’t mean either his dog or his wife see him as a superior guy. Leurck was reportedly busted in December for kicking his six-year-old beagle, Tikka, so hard that it had to undergo surgery. He soon wound up in jail, where he…
Everyone knows that banjos are awesome. But are they also deadly? According to Colorado law, that depends on how you use them. If you use your banjo for, say, pickin’, you’re all good. If you use it for hittin’, such as in the case of 33-year-old Joseph Stancato, you’re not…
Pierre Werner, aka Dr. Reefer, is one tough hombre. “I’m a convicted felon, so I can’t have any guns,” he says. “The only weapons I have are my fists.” And Werner used them early yesterday morning, when two men broke into the Boulder building, at 1121 Broadway, where his medical…
Visit msnbc.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy Remember that beautiful day in October when Balloon Boy Falcon Heene puked on the Today Show as his dad, Richard Heene, tried to convince America that the entire fiasco involving his runaway “experimental craft” had been genuine? Well,…
Gino Rael, 26, is a registered sex offender who received a four-year deferred sentence in 2006 for enticing a child. So what did he allegedly do while in Boulder County Jail this summer on unrelated charges? Sent letters to young girls whose photos he and a couple of buddies saw…
Early on January 5, a man now identified as Douglass Singleton, 59, was gunned down on the 2600 block of North Leyden Street in what Denver Police continue to insist (despite doubts from many observers) was a medical-marijuana-related transaction gone wrong. Now, the Denver DA’s office has charged Peter Bellar,…
Raul Gaucin-Valenzuela’s children know him well — even when he’s wearing a bandana over his face. That’s how Gaucin-Valenzuela was reportedly rolling this past weekend when he and a buddy broke into a home in Evans with an important mission — to beat the shit out of a man who…
The number of bank robberies in the metro area of late has apparently reached such heights that mainstream media can’t keep up. Example: Last evening, my wife and some of her colleagues were dining at restaurant off Wadsworth when the credit union next door was held up — and even…
