View Larger Map At around 3:30 a.m. this morning, a woman was reportedly shot and killed in a parking lot outside an AT&T building, near an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). More than six hours later, the Denver…
Even before he has his first New York City court appearance, terror suspect Najibbullah Zazi, who was shipped out of Colorado on Friday (leaving us with his father, Mohammad, as our most prominent remaining Zazi), is paying dividends to NYC mayor Michael Bloomberg — a man who knows a little…
Since she took over as district attorney five years ago, Carol Chambers has let wrongdoers in the Eighteenth Judicial District know that she’s going to hold them accountable. She’s pursued lengthy habitual-criminal sentences for low-level offenders, gone after opposing attorneys and truth-fudging cops, and even criticized judges for taking (and…
News broke late last week that Kristen Parker, the former Rose Medical Center surgical rep accused of passing hepatitis C to victims like those at the center of “Going Viral,” Alan Prendergast’s recent feature, would plead guilty to a potpourri of charges against her — and by Friday afternoon, she’d…
View Larger Map Earlier this week, we told you about a fight that resulted in the fatal stabbing of a man on the 1200 block of North Chambers Road near Hinkley High School, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger…
Aurora’s Jesse Dennis Dimmick was already wanted for questioning in a murder when he went on the lam recently, eventually finding himself in a police chase with Kansas authorities. And while murder is a little too severe to label Dimmick a shmuck, what he did next more than qualifies. During…
Denver may not be the nationwide leader in homicides, thank goodness. But as demonstrated by our Mile High Murder archive, which has documented forty murders since the project was launched in late May, there’s plenty of violence to go around in these parts. Witness the story of 49-year-old Lilian Verdonkschot,…
Channel 4’s report that Kristen Parker will plead guilty to charges against her won’t go down as the shock of the century. Back in July, after all, she confessed to swiping drugs while working as a surgery tech at Rose Medical Center, where she’s said to have infected more than…
The pdf of the detention file released by the Justice Department in relation to the case against terror suspect Najibbullah Zazi was sent upside-down — but the evidence against Zazi looks ugly from any direction. As such, expect him to be officially sent packing to New York following a perfunctory…
Among the more intriguing and/or disturbing features on the City of Boulder’s web site is a crime map feature that allows residents and other curious Internet surfers to see precisely where a variety of offenses have occurred throughout the community in a given week — in today’s case, the one…
Don’t know if Anthony Bryant’s business cards list him as a “Sexually Violent Predator” — but that’s how the Denver Police Department refers to him in a release that asks for help from the public in tracking him down. Seems Bryant, who has a couple of stranger-on-stranger assaults under his…
Those reports we told you about earlier this morning suggesting that authorities would seek to transfer terror suspect Najibbullah Zazi to New York have proven accurate. The Justice Department confirms that Zazi has been indicted in New York’s Eastern District “on a charge of conspiracy to use weapons of mass…
Some stories could be set anywhere — but not this one. Okay, there’s this joint in Severance called Bruce’s Bar, and for more than a quarter century, it’s sponsored an annual bash called the Nut Run — so named because the main attractions are Rocky Mountain oysters. Men and women…
Among the more controversial ways Colorado is saving money during the current budget catastrophe involves the early release of prisoners — something state Attorney General John Suthers hates, as he made clear during a recent appearance on KHOW. Today, the first eight cons are slated to go free — a…
The Aurora Police Department is seeking the driver of a white Toyota Camry as part of the investigation into a fatal stabbing on the 1200 block of North Chambers Road near Hinkley High School early Sunday morning — but the person behind the wheel isn’t considered a suspect. Rather, he…
Interesting essay on HuffPo Denver about the arrest of Aurora-based Najibullah Zazi and his father from the pen of Brian Levin, director of the Center for the Study of Hate and Extremism at California State University. Levin acknowledges that the statute making it a felony to lie to an investigator…
View Larger MapA fight took place around midnight near Hinkley High School, located on the 1200 block of North Chambers Road, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Upon their arrival, Aurora Police found a man suffering from stab…
A blog last Wednesday noted that Aurora-based Najibullah Zazi had taken an unusual tack in dealing with allegations of complicity in a New York-based terror plot, lawyering up and making himself available to limited media interviews. But while this may have seemed canny from a PR perspective (the Denver Post’s…
The sexual connotations inherent in the Greeley Tribune headline “Charges Mount For UNC Prof” are creepily appropriate. After all, University of Northern Colorado drama instructor Vance Fulkerson, who once led a “Self-Defense Singing” class, had already been accused of secretly filming children in his bathroom. And now, he’s facing nine…
One of the most difficult tasks on any law enforcement agency’s agenda involves figuring out the best way to handle sexual offenders who’ve done their time and want to return home. That’s the chore before the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office regarding Timothy E. Schreiber, who has been formally designated a…
This sordid story is brought to you by the letter “S.” Today, the Denver District Attorney’s office charged Ernie Lee Calbert with nine counts of aggravated robbery and one count of second-degree kidnapping. Authorities believe Calbert to be the so-called “‘S’ Bandit,” so named because most of the seven Denver-area…
In this week’s Westword, reporter Alan Prendergast investigates the gnarly addiction and spotty oversight that led to dozens of patients at Rose Medical Center being infected with hepatitis C. The offending junkie, Kristen Parker (right), has earned the contempt of all of Denver. But she’s not alone. Here, the five…
