Among the biggest drug busts ever on Colorado’s eastern plains began with a man who’d been shot in the hand. It ended with two arrests and seven pounds’ worth of meth valued at $320,000. And that’s not to mention the 51 pounds of marijuana. “We’ve been seeing an increase in…
Update: In March, the Denver District Attorney’s Office announced the filing of six sexual assault counts against Canada’s Colby Messer in relation to alleged activities at the Grand Hyatt the previous November. The details contained in a police report on view below made it one of this year’s most disturbing stories —…
In recent weeks, two men, Spencer Siroky and David Tatum, were sentenced for a violent marijuana heist in Westminster circa July 2015 and a third, Fredy Castillo, is still wanted for the crime after jumping bail. But even if Castillo was in custody, the story wouldn’t be over for a victim of…
In late 2015, as we’ve reported, Grand Junction’s Sydney White was sentenced to thirty years behind bars related to the death of Angel Place, an eleven-month-old in her care. Prosecutors said Angel died after White kicked her in the head. “I did a horrible thing that I am not proud of,” she…
Last week, Burke Ramsey, older brother of JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in her Boulder home on Christmas Day of 1996, sued Dr. Werner Spitz, a Michigan-based forensic pathologist, for $150 million. The focus of the complaint was Dr. Spitz’s assertion in a CBS Detroit interview flowing from the network docuseries The…
Burke Ramsey, older brother of JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in Boulder on Christmas Day of 1996, has filed a lawsuit against Dr. Werner Spitz, a Michigan-based forensic pathologist. Spitz theorized on the CBS program The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey” that Burke had killed JonBenét with a blow to the head. The lawsuit, included…
The Facebook pages of Evergreen resident Katherine “Katie” Barton and her husband, Jason Barton, could hardly look more typical. The posts and photo galleries are dominated by photos of their three adorable children, who look happy in all the shots that appear. But the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office believe…
The media barrage about the murder of JonBenét Ramsey is nowhere close to being over, as witnessed by The Killing of JonBenét: Her Father Speaks, an A&E documentary broadcast last night, in which John Ramsey, the father of the six-year-old Boulder girl murdered on Christmas Day, 1996, blasted a CBS series in which a…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has formally charged ex-Denver police officer Hubert Martin “Marty” Vanover on counts of possession with the intent to manufacture or distribute marijuana or marijuana concentrate, possession of marijuana or marijuana concentrate, and possession of a controlled substance — reportedly methamphetamine. Vanover has had plenty of…
A woman’s body was discovered amid a suspicious fire in Strasburg over the weekend. Now, the blaze is being investigated as a homicide — and an arrest warrant has been issued for 58-year-old Andrew Ausmus, As for the victim, she has yet to be positively identified owing to the damage…
Just days after we published a three-part series about violence on the 16th Street Mall, including a first-hand account of a violent stabbing that had gotten very little press coverage, Denver officials announced a new safety plan for the mall. The plan, which was scheduled to go into effect this week…
Earlier this month, news outlets such as CBS4 reported that a man had been shot and killed near an RTD light-rail station at 29th and Welton Street in Five Points. And while that was true, this location information doesn’t help much when it comes to accurately measuring the number of…
Right now, the FBI is on the lookout for a woman accused of robbing five banks in the metro Denver area wearing an ultra-ugly hairpiece. Hence the nickname bestowed upon her by the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force: the Wicked Wig of the West. The bandit nickname is a…
It’s been almost twenty years since six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was murdered in her Boulder home, but it feels like yesterday. Maybe because it was yesterday, and the day before that, and the one before that, and so on, that we’ve been subjected to a blitz of cheesy re-enactments of the crime on…
Chris Craig took center stage in one of 2013’s most bizarre stories: The former college basketball coach turned self-proclaimed “Islamic jihadist” was investigated but never arrested for publicly announcing that all Catholics and Mormons in Fort Collins “would be destroyed” over a two-week period. Now, however, Craig, who’s previously been treated…
“You’re such a hateful tramp Laura! Since your a Republican and love guns so much, than maybe we should shoot you and that ugly ass family of yours straight in the face.” This line is among the warnings allegedly sent to State Senator Laura Woods by 21-year-old Dylan Hopkins —…
When Nebraska and Oklahoma filed a lawsuit against Colorado late last year, the two states decried additional law enforcement costs they’d accrued due to the passage of Amendment 64, the 2012 measure that legalized limited recreational marijuana sales here. Now, however, Colorado taxpayers are ponying up to prosecute three young…
It’s been more than twenty years since three members of the Bennett family — father Bruce, mother Debra and seven-year-old daughter Melissa — were brutally murdered. But the Aurora Police Department hasn’t given up on finding their killer. The department has employed age-progressed DNA phenotyping, a technique developed by Parabon NanoLabs and dubbed Snapshot…
If you somehow missed the first two installments of Dr. Phil’s exclusive, three-hour, fantasmagoric interview with Burke Ramsey, twenty years after the unsolved murder of his six-year-old sister JonBenét, let me catch you up in a heartbeat. There were no big revelations here, and there are not likely to be any in…
The wheels of justice grind slowly — especially when it comes to the Aurora theater shooting. In October 2012, we told you about a lawsuit filed against Cinemark, owner of the Century 16 theater where James Holmes killed twelve people and injured seventy others on July 20 of that year,…
One of the most repellent wildlife cruelty cases in state history drew to a close this week with the sentencing of a Western Slope outfitter, the last of six defendants involved in a poaching operation that provided high-priced hunts of mountain lions and bobcats — many of whom had already…
Why the hell is faux-marijuana known as spice so popular in pot-friendly Colorado? This question was begged by a 169-count indictment issued by a Jefferson County grand jury against John Swanson and Michael Whitney late last month As noted by the First Judicial District DA’s office, the two men are…
