Crime & Police

A high profile mistrial could impact Republican nominee George Brauchler in the Colorado Attorney General race.

There are some 226 High Activity Location Observation, or HALO, cameras in Denver

Colorado has been warehousing the mentally ill in jails for months at a time without bothering to evaluate their condition or ordering any treatment that might help them.

“A lot of these things that are, frankly, public-health concerns are being addressed in the criminal justice system, and shouldn’t be,” says the ACLU.

Denver police have arrested a suspect in the stabbing death of East High School football star Reese Grant-Cobb.

The Colorado Department of Corrections will spend $41 million over two years to provide life-saving drugs to 2200 prisoners who’ve been diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C.

The three victims were all homeless, but there’s much more to their story.

More often that not, those of us who live in Denver and other sizable communities in Colorado and beyond are being watched by cameras maintained by each municipality and mounted in busy public areas. Now, cops in one Front Range community want to expand the network by supplementing their own surveillance gadgets with privately owned ones.

The Denver Police Department has arrested and named a suspect in the shooting deaths of three individuals experiencing homelessness whose bodies were found in early August near the South Broadway and I-25 interchange.

The Denver District Attorney’s Office has announced that the fourteen-year-old suspect in the August 28 shooting of a student outside the DSST Cole Middle School has been charged with felony first-degree assault and a misdemeanor gun-possession count in juvenile court. But with the victim still in critical condition more than a week after the incident, a spokesperson for Denver DA Beth McCann is non-committal about a possible transfer to adult court should the situation change.

Yesterday, September 3, George Roloff and fellow inmate Luke Tanner escaped from the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City, prompting a statewide alert. But Tanner was soon recaptured, followed a short time later by Roloff, who’d earned a sentence of more than 150 years for a bizarre crime spree he said was prompted in part by a fear of witchcraft.

A juror in the Michael Blagg murder trial last spring has filed a lawsuit against his employer, claiming that his supervisors pressured him to find a way to duck jury service — and retaliated against him after he spent six weeks on the panel that found Blagg guilty of killing his wife.

Moments ago, the Denver Police Department tweeted that a juvenile male had been arrested in the shooting of a student outside the DSST Cole Middle School campus on August 28, during the second week of the new academic year. The student who was shot in the incident remains in critical condition.

In fifteen counties in Colorado, the number of arrests for driving under the influence represents more than 1 percent of total population.

Right now, the arrest of Frederick’s Chris Watts for the murder of his pregnant wife Shanann Watts and their two daughters, three-year-old Celeste and four-year-old Bella, is one of the biggest stories in the country, with major cable channels regularly taking a break from their coverage of President Donald Trump’s latest tweets to go over the facts of the case known to date in forensic detail.

Jennie Bunsom has been identified as the sixteen-year-old being charged as an adult for the murder of Jordan Vong, her seven-year-old nephew. And a newly released probable-cause statement in the case maintains that she committed the act in the Montbello home they shared after he became frustrated over her refusal to play video games with him.

The Denver District Attorney’s office has announced that it will file murder and child abuse accusations in the death of Jordan Vong, a seven-year-old Montbello resident, against his sixteen-year-old aunt. Moreover, the teen will be charged as an adult.

Denver Police discovered three deceased individuals — two men and one woman — behind an 8,000-square-foot building. On Thursday afternoon, DPD revealed that they believe the victims were homeless.

But East Colfax still rates as more sketchy than South Broadway.

At a press conference this morning, representatives of the Aurora Police Department and other local law enforcement agencies confirmed that Alex Christopher Ewing, a 57-year-old prisoner in Nevada, where he’s serving time for brutally beating a couple with an ax handle, has been named in arrest warrants related to the 1984 hammer killings of Bruce, Debra and Melissa Bennett and the severe wounding of Vanessa Bennett, then age three, as well as the murder of Lakewood resident Patricia Louise Smith six days earlier.

At first, the Denver Police Department inquiry into the passing of seven-year-old Montbello resident Jordan Vong was termed a “death investigation.” But now, the DPD is revealing that a sixteen-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder.

On Friday, August 10, a news conference has been scheduled to discuss new developments in one of the metro area’s most tragic homicide cases: the 1984 hammer murders of parents Bruce and Debra Bennett and seven-year-old daughter Melissa, as well as horrific injuries sustained by the Bennetts’ three-year-old, Vanessa, who survived.