The Denver-based Pendulum Foundation has made some significant progress in challenging the laws that can send juveniles to adult prison, serving life without parole for violent crimes committed when they were fifteen- or sixteen-years old — a wrenching issue Luke Turf explored in his 2005 feature “Headed For Trouble.” Now,…
Say somebody calls you up and asks if you’d like to donate to the Family Help Center. Sounds like a good idea, right? Because you like families, and you’d like to help. But if you opened up your heart, and your wallet, to such an offer between 2005 and 2007,…
View Larger Map Here’s a development sure to freak out residents living in the vicinity of 3042 Humboldt Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Early this morning, the Denver Police Department responded to a burglary call at…
Accused murderer Scott Kimball, who’s expected to plead guilty to two counts of second-degree murder at a proceeding tomorrow, plays a significant role in “Strip Search,” a 2006 Luke Turf article about Jennifer Marcum, a former Shotgun Willie’s employee then missing for more than three years. She’d landed at his…
I am back from the front lines of the kiddie porn wars with some shocking news: The prosperous, sprawling suburbs of Douglas County conceal a steamy underbelly of underage sexual exhibitionism. Youth are being exploited right and left. Usually by each other. Sexting — the insidious, technologically inevitable, highly adolescent,…
Marine Lance Hering so didn’t want to return to duty back in 2006 that he and a friend, Steve Powers, cooked up an elaborate story about his disappearance after injury in a Eldorado Canyon climbing accident. The tale and its aftermath (including his arrest in Washington state several months later),…
Give peace a chance? Not in much of Capitol Hill today. Over the weekend, a graffiti practitioner and/or crew with, presumably, a keen sense of irony, tossed up hastily scrawled peace signs on businesses, government buildings and even some private residences, much to the chagrin of those whose property was…
Today, the hoi polloi of American law enforcement — Attorney General Eric Holder, FBI Director Robert Mueller, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano, Office of National Drug Control Policy Director Gil Kerlikowske and Associate Attorney General Tom Perrelli — will be in Denver to address the International Association of…
The dysfunctional high-security federal penitentiary in Florence has been the scene of all sorts of gang-related mayhem, from the grisly 1999 disembowelment of inmate Joey Estrella to the 2008 racial uprising in the yard, in which guards fired on brawling prisoners and killed two (as reported in “Life in the…
I’ve never owned a horse, or even horse-sat for that matter. So I can’t say for sure that I could properly maintain the nutrition of an equine if charged with such responsibility. If the horse didn’t like Ben & Jerry’s or the onion rings from My Brother’s Bar, he might…
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office is looking for a penis — one attached to the guy pictured here. On September 12 at around 1:30 p.m., he entered the Koelbel Library, 5955 S. Holly Street in Centennial, and promptly gave others in the facility a chance to check out… his man…
Over the past few years, the ability of journalists (or any private citizen, for that matter) to access various forms of public records in Colorado has been greatly diminished, from police reports to divorce filings. The loss of access to court records has been particularly aggravating, a bit of bureaucratic…
Channel 4’s Rick Sallinger isn’t the only local TV type in New York City tracing the tracks of terror-suspect Najibullah Zazi. Eli Stokols, the go-to-guy for the two-headed Channel 31/The Deuce monster, is there as well. But the package above demonstrates why so few affiliates are willing to open…
If you’re reading this and you’re a horse, congratulations: You can read — which is a rare talent if you’re a horse (which you are). And considering how smart you are, what with that whole being-able-to-read thing, you should tell your horse buddies to stay out of Weld County –…
View Larger Map Yesterday, we told you about the early morning shooting of a woman in a parking lot on East 40th Avenue. Just in: A release from the Denver Coroner’s Office slightly amending the address where the crime took place, from 2535 E. 40th to 2530, an area captured…
Another day, another article in a major publication implying that Arthur Folsom, the Denver-area attorney representing terror suspect Najibullah Zazi, couldn’t be more doomed to disaster if his legal background consisted entirely of watching season three of Night Court on DVD. This time, the doubt is slathered on by the…
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…
