Crime & Police

The victim just wanted a ride home. Instead, he was battered by security guards charged with keeping Union Station safe.

Randall Shaun Butler is charged with two counts of sexual assault and has resigned from the force.

An attorney representing the family of a man who was shot and killed by police moments after he had himself shot a home intruder blasts the decision to clear the officer who pulled the trigger.

A new lawsuit seeks to make sure that Chris Watts won’t derive a profit from any media projects about his murder of his pregnant wife and two daughters.

A woman has pleaded guilty to negligent homicide in the drowning death of a nine-year-old girl, but has received no jail time for the offense.

“I don’t know about that, but they need to stop that racist shit.”

The decision to launch a death penalty prosecution against a man accused of killing a deputy presents a challenge to Governor-elect Jared Polis, who opposes capital punishment.

In Denver during 2017, more than 1,200 robberies were reported, but fewer than 500 have been cleared by law enforcement, leaving victims’ odds of seeing justice done at far less than fifty-fifty.

The coroner’s office has identified the man killed in a Ballpark shooting allegedly involving gang members as a 59-year-old former Marine.

A seventy-year-old retired bus driver is currently in a Denver jail on a 34-year-old case he thought had been resolved in the 1980s.

One person was killed in the incident.

Sentenced to life in prison for a crime that occurred when he was seventeen, Jeff Johnson is one of the first of Colorado’s juvie lifers to be released.

A loophole that allowed a man convicted of sexual assault on a child to be convicted of a much lesser charge needs to be closed legislatively, says a Colorado district attorney.

Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen has revealed that one person has been arrested and an injured party is suspected to have been involved in an exchange of gunfire during a quintuple shooting near 21st and Lawrence streets on November 19.

The latest information about an afternoon shooting near 21st and Lawrence reveals one death, four injuries and lots of questions.

A woman abused by a former University of Colorado assistant coach reacts to the firing of head coach Mike MacIntyre, to whom she reached out for help.

The sentencing of Chris Watts, who has confessed to killing his wife and two daughters, won’t end the media’s fascination with the story.

Of the 2,800-plus aggravated assaults that took place in Denver during 2017, law enforcement have yet to clear more than a thousand.

Hate crime figures collected by the FBI probable understate the problem according to an expert from Colorado’s branch of the Anti-Defamation League.

The Denver Film Festival’s executive director defends a red-carpet screening of a new movie that opens with a graphic school shooting scene inspired by Columbine.

During 2017, more than 1,200 crimes involving non-consensual sex were committed in Denver, including more than 500 rapes, of which fewer than 50 percent were cleared by law enforcement.

Denver Police Department crime statistics reveal the specifics behind the city’s 58 murders in 2017.