As we’ve reported, authorities arrested Tanner Flores, eighteen, after recovering a body that’s been positively identified as Ashley Doolittle, a Berthoud eighteen-year-old — and his former girlfriend. Now, an affidavit in the case is revealing new and disturbing details about the circumstances of Doolittle’s death. The document maintains that Flores…
According to the father of Jubal Dee Alexander, the murder of his son in Texas was horrific in and of itself. But the circumstances surrounding the crime have compounded the pain. Alexander’s body was found inside his truck, but not his head. He’d been decapitated — and at this writing, the…
In recent weeks, we’ve been reporting about victims who drowned in Colorado waterways. Included among them were Jacob and Daniel Foreman, two young brothers who drowned in the Little Thompson River. Now comes a bizarre twist on this theme. A report about a family in danger of drowning after a…
“Twice in a week,” marijuana activist Wayward Bill wrote late last night on his Facebook page. “Siege situation at mi casa.” Specifically, officers with the Denver Police Department got into a gun battle with a man who allegedly opened fire on them near the intersection of 20th and Arapahoe. He…
In recent years, the Denver Police Department has regularly used its Facebook page to share what are essentially dumb criminal stories — tales of scofflaws busted for minor offenses or less serious crimes, often due to their own stupidity. We published our first roundup of DPD dumb criminal stories in…
Yesterday afternoon, the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office made official the worst fears of Ashley Doolittle’s friends, family and loved ones. On Friday, June 10, following reports that Doolittle had gone missing the evening before, Tanner Flores, her former boyfriend, was arrested in unincorporated Mesa County with the body of “a young…
Last August, we told you about disturbing accusations against four men — Edgar Barroso, Steven Hillen, Juvenal Tamayo and Pedro Valdez — on suspicion of kidnapping and sexual assault. They were accused of holding several women hostage for at least a day and possibly more. During that period, crimes against the…
Earlier this year, High Times announced that it would move its annual Cannabis Cup to Pueblo after it was forced to relocate the event from Denver. And while the plan subsequently fell apart (and the Cup headed to California, at least temporarily), the idea of the Cup in Pueblo made sense since…
In March 2013, Evan Ebel, who had been released from a Colorado prison early due to a clerical error, allegedly killed pizza-delivery man Nathan Leon and Department of Corrections executive director Tom Clements before fleeing to Texas, where he died in a gun battle after shooting an officer. The inquiry into the…
Back in March 2015, when we first told you about the arrest of Lucas Johnson for the murder of Edward Zimmerman, authorities portrayed it as a marijuana murder. And indeed, more than a dozen cannabis plants were stolen from Zimmerman’s home. But now that Johnson has pleaded guilty to the…
As we’ve noted, numerous police departments in Colorado and beyond continue to publicize photos of Johns busted for soliciting prostitutes under the theory that doing so will help cut down on the crime, even though such shaming has become increasingly controversial and unpopular with many members of the public. With that…
Sexual assaults have become all-too-frequent at the University of Denver. In late March, DU officials informed the campus community about two sex assaults — crimes that brought the sexual assault total to seven. Now comes another incident — a rape that DU authorities say took place in a parking lot…
Just inside the door of a Northglenn home is this messsage: “Welcome: May all who enter as guests leave as friends.” To put it mildly, what happened just after midnight yesterday morning violates this sentiment in a horrific way. The woman who lived at the residence was shot, allegedly by…
“I ain’t worried bout nothing Cause it’s a little thing I know called faith All you need is much as a mustard seed And the Lord will keep you safe” Sean Pointe shared these words on his Facebook page last September. But there was no protecting him from what happened…
We recently altered our monthly mugshot roundup to provide more information about the context and details of each offense — and to put the focus on the most disturbing Colorado crimes we covered during the previous four weeks or so. And in May, there were all too many incidents that…
It’s taken months, but Julie Huff, 30, has finally been formally charged in the child abuse death of two-year-old Tobi Joan Doyle in Montrose. Adding to the pain caused by this delay: Reports of possible abuse warning signs that were either missed or misunderstood in the weeks before the child’s February death…
Did an off-duty police officer’s case of road rage result in a homicide? That’s the working theory in regard to a fatal crash in Weld County. Authorities have arrested Blair Jackson, a 48-year-old police officer for the community of Ault, on suspicion of second-degree homicide and reckless driving resulting in…
In some of the grittier industrial areas of northeast Denver, it’s not unusual to find people eager to give back to the community. Usually what they’re giving back consists of old tires and scorched mattresses, used syringes and construction debris — the kind of detritus that’s regularly dumped along the…
Authorities in Colorado Springs aren’t saying that Glen Galloway committed a brutal murder in Colorado Springs. At least not yet. However, Galloway, who was wanted even before the homicide, has been branded a person of interest in the case. And he’s considered to be armed and dangerous. The Galloway alert…
Reports about domestic violence arrests involving football players typically position the male as the abuser. But not in the case of Cody Latimer, a wide receiver for the Denver Broncos. Yes, he has been cited — but the charge involves a failure to appear in court regarding a year-old traffic…
“Colorado Springs Mayor: Day of Reckoning Coming for City’s Illegal Marijuana Growers,” published by the Colorado Springs Gazette on May 28, represents the coming together of an anti-marijuana newspaper and an anti-marijuana politician — Mayor John Suthers. But that doesn’t mean it’s empty posturing. While Suthers’s assertion that hundreds of illegal…
It’s the latest twist in a tragic murder that attracted national attention: the 2014 killing of Aspen socialite Nancy Pfister. In the beginning, William Styler, a former Denver doctor, and his wife, Nancy Masson (then known as Nancy Styler), were accused of committing the slaying. But William eventually confessed to the…
