Suspicious death at 8th Avenue and Navajo Street

View Larger Map Deaths identified as suspicious by law-enforcement officials don’t always prove to be so after further investigation. But I’m going to edge out onto a limb and say this description will prove to be accurate as applied to an investigation centered on the intersection of 8th Avenue and…

Shaggy Bandit spills all about bank-robbing spree

Michael A. Kincade, dubbed the Shaggy Bandit, must not take that whole you-have-the-right-to-remain-silent thing very seriously. Shortly after he and an accomplice, the nickname-challenged Christopher Lee Richardson, were captured last week, Kincade gave a jailhouse interview to 9News. And the criminal complaint written out against him by the U.S. Attorney’s…

Lesson to puppy thieves: Never steal anything adorable

The saga of Ferris the stolen dachshund has a happy ending — for everyone except the trio who swiped him. Thanks to the Boulder Police Department’s energetic efforts to locate the parties who spirited the pooch away from the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, a good Samaritan who’d been asked…

Take a better look at an accused child molester

Last week, we passed along the Aurora Police Department’s invitation to roll over on Daniel Evaristo-Hernandez-Ramos, an accused child molester. No luck finding the suspect thus far, but the APD has located a much better photo, seen here. As for the reasons why you may want to consider dropping a…

Ruh-roh! The Shaggy Bandit caught without Mystery Machine

In an August 20 blog, our own Joel Warner told us about the Shaggy Bandit, a scofflaw wanted for numerous bank heists. Shaggy’s memorable name came courtesy of the FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, whose members understand that reporters tends to pay more attention to thieves with catchy…

Ferris the dachshund is back — and he can be yours!

Yesterday, we told you about the Boulder Police Department’s valiant efforts to find a dachshund puppy named Ferris, who was allegedly snatched from the Humane Society of Boulder Valley earlier this month. Mere hours after that post, according to a BPD release on view below, a woman identified by the…

Dominick Dunne on JonBenét Ramsey and John Mark Karr

Author Dominick Dunne, who died yesterday at 83, is best known for covering the nation’s most sensational crimes and trials. But he never showed much interest in the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, to the frustration of some folks obsessed with the mystery over the Boulder girl’s 1996 death. However, he…

Can you help save a puppy named Ferris?

Ferris is a dachshund. A cute dachshund, no doubt, not only because dachshunds are, by their nature, cute, but because the thought of a dachshund named Ferris is even cuter. And some people stole him. Bad people who folks at the Boulder Police Department want to catch and then punish…

Pike National Forest: Can’t see the trees for the weed

A fire in Pike National Forest would bake the entire region. Fed and local law enforcement types located more than 14,000 marijuana plants in Pike National Forest near Deckers last week, and it’s hardly the first time such a discovery has been made in that area. In July, the West…

The Rifleman revisited — with horses in the sites

Zoning disputes: Not an inherently fascinating subject for folks not involved with them — and often not even then. But the interest level perks up when wholesale horse assassination is thrown into the mix. According to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office, Trenton Parker recently received a ninety-day sentence for contempt…

Hammer time for Colorado Democratic Party headquarters

At his latest healthcare town hall this past weekend, Congressman Jared Polis said attendees were patriotic because they were expressing their opinions, whatever they might be. But he probably would have changed his tune had they been wielding implements of destruction — or, in this case, construction. According to the…

Comic books like these great for meth-profits laundering

One of the more unusual aspects of the enormous meth ring authorities announced they busted yesterday was the alleged conspirators’ chosen instrument for cleaning their dirty money: classic comic books. Investigators seized approximately 100 boxes of comics, including first-edition Batmans and Supermans in plastic sheaths to protect their value. As…

Seriously — these guys dealt meth?

Take a look at Aaron and Alfonzo Castro and then guess their profession. Kindergarten teachers? Florists? Hallmark Card authors? Not according to Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, the North Metro Task Force and other law-enforcement types. No, they say the Castros, and 39 others, were part of a meth ring…

Shmuck of the Week: Shawn Merriman, aka the Mormon Madoff

An early front-runner for Shmuck of the Year, Shawn Merriman this week was officially charged for his orchestration of a massive Ponzi scheme that made him rich, left friends and investors broke, and had Bernie Madoff saying to his prison boyfriend, “Hey, this guy stole my moves!”…

Here’s something those new CU cops can do with their time

With students returning to the University of Colorado at Boulder campus for the fall semester, the Boulder Police Department is stepping up DUI patrols — and the CU cops will be out in greater force, too. The university department has added six more officers as part of an overall plan…

Somebody stop that cleverly named bandit!

It’s been a big week for local robbers with snazzy names. On Tuesday, the FBI announced it was looking for a scofflaw they’d named the $83 Bandit, since the bank notes he’s used to rob eight Denver area banks since March often included odd numbers that have the numeral 3…