Stories of alleged neglect don’t get much more horrific than the one related by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in regard to Joseph Trujillo, 23. Shortly after midnight, according to the JCSO, Trujillo’s mother heard crying, which makes sense given that she lives with her son and his five-month-old child…
Plea bargains are a necessary evil given how overtaxed our judicial system is these days. But it’s still frustrating when someone who seems to deserve a long, long sentence gets a lighter one simply because he made a deal saving the state the time and expense of putting him on…
The Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force is rightly championed for the clever names it assigns to wanted men and women, including the Hopping Hooded Bandits, the $83 Bandit, the Shaggy Bandit and, of course, Bonnie and Clyde. Now, the Aurora Police Department has gotten into the act, putting out…
Earlier this month, Gino Rael, a 26-year-old registered sex offender, was accused of trying to lure underage girls by writing them letters — from Boulder County Jail. This week, Rael offered his defense, reportedly claiming to have been tricked into contacting prepubescents — because he thought he was writing to…
In October, Jennifer Carter, a secretary at Palmer Elementary, was charged with two misdemeanors for the way she dealt with a misbehaving six-year-old student — by taping his hands together and his mouth shut. Today, Carter pleaded guilty to one of those counts, for which she’ll receive an 18-month deferred…
What is it with beheadings all of a sudden? Last week, we told you about a Boulder break-in during which a woman’s betta fish was decapitated. And now, a Longmont couple reveals that the head of their beloved fiberglass horse has been separated from its body. According to the Longmont…
A common lament among members of the medical marijuana industry is that police and the media essentially work together to trump up incidents or look for connections to weed that may or may not exist — as in Sunday’s home-invasion robbery in Fort Collins, when medical marijuana was mentioned before…
Another day, another grabby crime that may (or may not) be related to medical marijuana — this one a home invasion in Fort Collins that’s resulted in the arrest of four subjects who allegedly bound a trio of men and held them at gunpoint. Sergeant Jon Holsten of the Fort…
Remember Kristen Parker, the surgical tech who passed her case of hepatitis-C to at least fifteen patients at Rose Medical Center via needles she’d used on herself? As part of her plea agreement in the case, she had to explain what she’d done on a video that’s now been released…
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…
