Crime & Police

There have been an absolutely astounding number of officer-involved shootings in these parts over recent months. One estimate counted eleven police shootings on Colorado’s Front Range between Halloween and December 18. And since then, we’ve reported about the Denver Police Department shooting of Ramone Lonergan, and two incidents earlier this…

Over the past several days, we’ve shared posts in which we’ve listed the ten Denver neighborhoods with the biggest increases in violent crime and property crime in 2015, according to Denver Police Department statistics. This item combines those two numbers to come up with the neighborhoods with the largest total…

The mysterious death of a young woman in West Valley City, Utah quickly turned into a homicide investigation — and now, the key to finding justice in the case may have been found in Denver. Yesterday afternoon, a person of interest in the death of a young woman subsequently identified…

Earlier this week, we shared a post in which we listed the ten Denver neighborhoods with the biggest increases in violent crime during 2015, according to Denver Police Department statistics. Included among them was one in which the total offenses quintupled over the previous year. The rises in property crime…

A confrontation over the serving of an eviction notice yesterday in Park County led to a shootout in which the home’s resident, Martin Wirth, and a deputy, Corporal Nate Carrigan, were killed and two others were injured. Now, additional information has surfaced about Wirth, who was an outspoken activist affiliated…

Yesterday, President Barack Obama announced his latest plan to close the Guantanamo Bay facility in Cuba. It includes the transfer of the sixty suspected terrorists being housed there to facilities in the U.S., including Colorado. Politicians from both sides of the aisle in Colorado have objected to the notion, including…

On the afternoon of Sunday, February 21, Blackhawk resident Greg Zolnick was enjoying cycling not far from Boulder when his world changed. Zolnick was struck by a car, and days later, he reportedly remains in critical condition. Now, the Colorado State Patrol has reached out to the public in the hope…

Back in 2011, we told you about the arrest of Billy Jene Wilson for the murder of Gina Gruenwald seven years earlier. DNA evidence from a bite mark had put authorities on Wilson’s trail, and he was eventually convicted of the crime — but he appealed based on at least…

River North is among Denver’s trendiest and fastest-growing neighborhoods. But yesterday, RiNo’s peaceful hustle and bustle was disrupted by a grisly turn of events. Police discovered the body of a dead woman. They subsequently launched a homicide investigation — and a suspect is currently in custody. Here’s the first tweet…

Last month, we reported that crime in Denver was up in seven of nine categories based on Denver Police Department stats, with an increase of 72.4 percent in homicides. Now, 9News has broken down more DPD numbers and discovered that crime rose in every Denver neighborhood during 2015. The stats separate offenses into…

“Shots fired. Bleeding everywhere. I’m going to hurt you or kill you.” These are some of the first words spoken by Denver Police Department Officer Rachel Eid in a two-part DPD video entitled Graveyard Shift, which went online last September. But her words in the clip are eerily prescient given…

Jason Mesaros was suspected of taking part in an armed robbery that netted two pounds of marijuana and between ten and fifteen pounds worth of trim.  But he won’t go on trial for his crimes. He was killed after being riddled by bullets — ten in all — following a…

On Saturday, the University of Denver and Colorado College played a historic outdoor hockey game at Coors Field. And while DU came out on top, 4-1, the school was victimized by disrespect to its unofficial mascot, Denver Boone, who was escorted out of the stadium, and the apparent theft of…

Millions upon millions of people have bought and sold items on Craigslist without a problem. But that doesn’t mean horror stories involving the service are unknown. The most prominent example locally is Dynel Lane’s alleged attack on Michelle Wilkins; Lane is accused of cutting the child from Wilkins’s womb after…

On November 22, 2015, Miguel Martinez was armed, dangerous and wanted in regard to an active warrant (for escape and drugs, which he was on at the time) that made explicit mention of his “violent tendencies.” He was also mentally ill, as Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey acknowledges in his…

At this writing, there has been no announcement that Mesa County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Derek Geer has died. However, it’s only a matter of time. An all-too-short amount of time. Geer was shot multiple times on Monday, February 8, allegedly by a thus-far-unidentified seventeen-year-old who’s currently in custody. The deputy…

When major television folks descend on the fly-over states to rehash some notorious tragedy, they’re generally better at playing the heartstrings than pushing for answers. That was certainly the case when Barbara Walters sat down with John Ramsey a few months ago, to bat around a few whiffle-ball questions about the 1996…

The Denver Police Department is currently on the lookout for the man captured in surveillance images captured here. The suspect is considered dangerous for a very good reason. He’s though to have randomly stabbed an employee at an East Colfax Good Times restaurant in the eye with a switchblade. But…

Beverly England, the married mother of two young children, vanished in the Salida area on June 12, 1980. Since then, her family and the folks behind numerous websites, as well as the Colorado Bureau of Investigation, have sought to solve the mystery of her disappearance. We don’t have all the…

Last week, we told you about the fatal stabbing of a six-year-old boy, subsequently identified as Riley Johnson, and sexual assault of a woman caring for him, allegedly by a man who later turned the knife on himself. The man has now been ID’d as Brandon Johnson — the boy’s dad…