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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
When news first broke yesterday that eleven windows had been smashed at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters in Denver, initial speculation pinned the blame on conservative anger over Democratic heathcare reform efforts. When it emerged that one of the two suspects arrested in connection with that crime, 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, had…
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…
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…
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…
View Larger Map According to Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office PIO Jacki Kelly, a likely murder-suicide was discovered yesterday on the 23000 block of Kiowa Road in Indian Hills, near the area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Kelly says a…
View Larger Map The crash that took place during the wee hours of August 15 on Titan Road near Rampart Range Road, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”), certainly qualifies as a tragic accident. But according to the…
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!”…
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…
Why on earth would a female high-school teacher want to boink a male student? After all, teenage boys are typically terrible conversationalists, are prone to doing stupid things (and then doing them again), and have terrible skin. And who cares if a stiff breeze can give them an erection? Most…
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…
Today, students start returning to the University of Colorado at Boulder for the fall semester, and school officials and local cops plan to greet them somewhat differently. CU’s got a range of activities on the schedule, including an “Ice and Dice” party — think indoor ice skating and a poker…
Josh Penry may be quickly becoming the leading Republican candidate for governor, thanks to the rapid implosion of Scott McInnis’ campaign and the difficulties Ryan Frazier is having in regard to gaining traction — but not everything’s going his way. Yesterday morning on his Twitter feed, he wrote, “What kind…
According to the Denver Police Department, theft from motor vehicles is up 32 percent this year. With that in mind, DPD reps suggest a number of seemingly obvious steps locals can use to avoid becoming a snatch-and-grab victim: lock the car, don’t leave the keys in it, park it in…
Yesterday’s decision by the U.S. Justice Department not to appeal a ruling that former Qwest chief executive Joe Nacchio’s six-year jail term and accompanying $52 million fine were excessive could well mean a couple of years, and perhaps even more, will be shaved off his sentence when Judge Marcia Krieger…
We’ve been taught from an early age not to squeal on people. Doing so is seen as such a negative that the action’s been given a number of entirely perjorative names: “rat,” “fink” and so on. But given the crimes for which twenty-year-old Daniel Evaristo-Hernandez-Ramos is wanted — sexual assault…
In late July, Judd Golden, chair of the Boulder branch of the American Civil Liberties Union, wrote a letter to the Boulder Police Department complaining about the July 19 tasering of what he described as “an unarmed and apparently mentally impaired man.” He shared this missive with local media –…
