It took a year, but an arrest has finally been made in the murder of Agate’s Ed Butler. Joe Robert Love, a 26-year-old from Colorado Springs, is currently in custody in El Paso, Texas for a slaying solved with assistance from video footage showing the suspected killer eating a candy bar and spinning in place at the scene of the crime.
Dan Williams has been sentenced to two years of probation for shooting and killing two bear cubs outside his Evergreen home in September 2015. However, his punishment in the court of public opinion has been much worse.
On February 9, former University of Colorado Boulder defensive coach Joe Tumpkin is scheduled to appear in Adams County court for a preliminary hearing related to multiple counts of assault related to domestic violence accusations. But thanks to an exposé in Sports Illustrated, CU Boulder is already on trial in the court of public opinion over its handling of the Tumpkin matter, and the fallout is capable of undermining a program that took more than a decade to recover from a recruiting scandal whose ripples recently revealed a past sex assault investigation targeting new Broncos head football coach (and former CU Boulder assistant) Vance Joseph.
Did Joshua Cummings, who’s now been formally advised of a first-degree murder charge naming him in the execution-style slaying of RTD security officer Scott Von Lanken, ask for a beer at the conclusion of his initial court appearance?
A new study of Denver police shootings between 1983 and 2012 concludes that approximately 47 percent of them were questionable, 18 percent were problematic and just 35 percent were what co-author Robert Durán considers to be legitimate.
Much more information has emerged about Joshua Cummings, the 37-year-old man who is suspected in the execution-style murder of RTD security officer Scott Von Lanken late on Tuesday, January 31. The former head of a Texas Jiu-Jitsuka academy who had recently moved to Colorado, Cummings expressed antipathy for police in multiple posts that remained online even as reports surfaced that he reportedly had “Muslim documents” on his person when he was taken into custody and spoke in what sources described as “an Arabic language.”
The Denver Police Department has arrested Joshua Cummings, 37, for the execution-style murder of an RTD contract security officer. Investigators say they’re currently looking into the possibility that the officer was targeted because of his uniform, which is described as looking similar to those worn by members of the DPD.
The mystery surrounding the death of Holly Lynn Moore, a 19-year-old college student found hanging in a closet in her Castle Rock apartment in 2015, just keeps getting deeper. Family members have spent months and thousands of dollars uncovering evidence that suggests Moore’s death wasn’t the suicide that it appears to be.
In the wake of his death, Aaron Tuneberg’s family set up Aaron’s Fund, which raises money to help at-risk adults live safer and more fulfilling lives.
Luke Pelham says he didn’t foresee what was going to happen the night he went to his friend Aaron Tuneberg’s apartment with another eighteen-year-old he barely knew. Pelham didn’t think it would turn tragic — not even when the other guy brought along a bat and a golf club. “If…
Just shy of two years after a pair of Denver police officers shot and killed seventeen-year-old Jessie Hernandez while she was behind the wheel of a stolen car, the department for which they work has announced that they will face no discipline in the controversial case, since their actions didn’t violate policy about firing into a moving vehicle in place at the time of the incident.
Courtney Plante has taken a plea agreement in regard to attempted murder allegations against her significant other Sean Overstreet dating back to January 2016, when she was nineteen and he was 37. The deal trims time off her possible sentence but doesn’t let her off the hook for a crime against her former teacher that was as violent as it was bizarre.
Over recent weeks, there have been a series of high-profile crimes on Regional Transportation District buses in the Denver metro area, including a stabbing, an assault and a case of indecent exposure. Yet an RTD spokesman argues that despite such regrettable incidents, the district’s buses, trains and assorted properties are safe — and getting safer all the time.
A lawsuit inspired by a video in which Greg Heard, a homeless man, is tased while giving himself up to a Denver police officer is currently in the works. But Heard’s attorney, John Holland, is releasing the video prior to the suit’s filing (see it below) because “it’s a matter of public concern. It should be out there, so people can understand that they should be very, very careful when confronting police officers armed with tasers. Because they will be tased — and many people have died from tasing. It can be deadly.”
It’s taken nearly seven years to convict Javier Aguirre of killing Lyndsay Pham at Aurora’s Descano Plaza Apartments, which she co-owned and managed, even though even though police suspected Aguirre from the early stages of the investigation.
Otero County Jail inmate Jennifer Hernandez says she was sexually assaulted by a guard through the open bars of her jail cell amid a highly sexualized environment that allowed male corrections officers to routinely see her naked.
The City of Aurora has agreed to pay $325,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by fourteen people detained at gunpoint by police officers for over an hour during a clumsy search for a man who’d robbed a nearby bank while wearing a beekeeper’s suit.
Early yesterday morning, a man was shot to death outside a strip club — specifically PT’s All Nude, also known as PT’s Centerfold Show Club, located at 3480 Galena Street. Such venues have been the setting for similar violent crimes numerous times in recent years. Indeed, just last week, we reported…
Even the best skier or snowboarder has been on a chairlift and had this fleeting thought: “I could fall off this thing.” That nightmare scenario became a reality for Seth Beckton in January, when Thomas Proesel pushed the snowboarder off an Aspen Highlands chairlift after Beckton made a casual comment…
Here are some of the most notable stories that Westword has run over the years dealing with Colorado’s most infamous unsolved homicide.
Today is the twentieth anniversary of the death of JonBenét Ramsey on December 26, 1996. Many of the issues that dominated local headlines this year — including homelessness, the rising cost of housing and a steady influx of transplants, and an increasingly crazy election — were all too easy to…
When 3-1-1 operators receive complaints about graffiti, they first ask the caller: Is the graffiti profane, hateful or racist? Sonja Jackson says she has had to ask that question a lot lately. The 3-1-1 operator with the city of Denver says she saw “an almost immediate uptick in the number…
