News that Broncos practice squad player Ryan Murphy had been sent home from the Super Bowl after being swept up in a Santa Clara prostitution sting made headlines nationwide. And even though Murphy was only questioned, not arrested or cited with a crime, during the incident, his case is being cited…
It’s been one of the biggest federal marijuana prosecutions in the Denver area since the passage of Amendment 64 — featuring a high-profile raid and more than two years’ worth of allegations involving weapons and $500,000 in Colombian cash said to have been dumped into the Colorado pot industry. But…
Earlier today, we told you about Broncos practice squad player Ryan Murphy being sent home from the Super Bowl after he was questioned in regard to the investigation of a prostitution sting. Although Murphy wasn’t cited for a crime, his name has now been linked with prostitution due to the Broncos/Super…
Stephen Moore is a reportedly a male stripper from Oklahoma. But this week, he found himself in Aspen, and he’ll be there for a while. He was jailed after allegedly shooting video up the skirts of two girls, ages fourteen and fifteen, and injuring a nine-year-old boy as he tried to…
The fallout continues from the biker brawl at the Colorado Motorcycle Expo on January 30 — a melee that killed a man now identified by the Denver coroner’s office as Victor Mendoza, 46, and injured several others. Mendoza is said to have been a member of a motorcycle club known…
A melee between two motorcycle clubs, the Mongols and the Iron Order, at the National Western Complex over the weekend ended with a stabbing and one death and plenty of blame being directed in opposite directions. We don’t yet know the identities of everyone involved, including the dead man. But…
In Denver, it’s extraordinarily rare for police officers to be accused of excessive force while on the job. Note our post yesterday about Denver police officer Choice Johnson, who has never been criminally charged despite an estimated eighteen complaints against him, with many involving alleged violence and profanities. Johnson is…
Early yesterday morning, an inmate at Larimer County jail bit off his own thumb. In response to this bizarre act, a jail spokesman spoke out about what is characterized as “the growing number of inmates housed in county jails who suffer from apparent or diagnosed mental illness” — a long-running…
News that a 94-year-old man had been accused of sexual assault against a 73-year-old victim was shocking enough. Even more startling, though, is the identity of the arrestee. retired Marine Colonel Robert C. Lehnert, a World War II hero who was a key figure in a documentary narrated by Greatest…
An off-duty Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office deputy is fighting for his life. He was transported to an area hospital in critical condition after being shot during what appears to have been a robbery attempt in Aurora. The deputy was able to shoot one juvenile suspect; he’s in custody. But his…
The 17th Judicial District DA’s office has announced the arrest of ten men in an Adams County sex trafficking sting that took place on January 21 and 22. All ten have been charged with at least one count related to child prostitution. The operation was conducted in conjunction with U.S…
Yesterday, we told you about a Craigslist-related shooting in Littleton; two men responding to an ad allegedly tried to rob a homeowner, who ultimately shot and killed one of the suspects. It’s one of numerous Colorado crimes related to Craigslist that we’ve reported about over the years. Now, two more join…
Tom Moore, a nurse who’s been employed by numerous medical facilities in northern Colorado (and a couple in other states), has been arrested for unlawful sexual contact. But the case against him is far from over. Police in Fort Collins note that multiple women say he touched them in a…
Thousands of prisoners across the country who were sentenced to life imprisonment for crimes committed when they were juveniles could soon have their sentences significantly reduced, thanks to a United States Supreme Court ruling on Monday. That group includes more than forty juvie lifers in Colorado, most of whom have…
This past July, we published a post detailing twenty Denver homicides during the first half of 2015. In it, we noted that the total, while disturbing, was also fairly typical. There were twenty Denver homicides during the first half of 2012 and 22 in the first six months of 2013…
As we noted in our coverage of a Craigslist-related Make My Day shooting in Littleton that that left one man dead, pre- and post-game coverage of the Broncos’ AFC championship game win overwhelmed coverage of many other newsworthy events this past weekend. Another example: a shooting near an RTD park and…
References to 24-year-old CU Boulder student Merissa Hirneisen on the university’s website are impressive. She’s listed as an international affairs major, and she served as a student assistant for the 2013 Conference on World Affairs (her LinkedIn profile says she handled this task from 2009 to 2014) and an assistant editor for Occasions…
We recently shared video showing the jailhouse death of Michael Lee Marshall. The homeless man, who suffered from symptoms associated with paranoid schizophrenia, choked on his own vomit after being restrained by Denver deputies in a November 2015 incident the city coroner’s office has labeled a homicide. It’s a shocking…
At a press conference on Thursday afternoon, attorney Darold Killmer said that the office of District Attorney Mitch Morrissey sent them multiple discs containing video showing Michael Marshall’s death in city custody last November. Killmer, who represents Marshall’s family, said he expects the DA’s office will be releasing footage to the…
It’s among the most bizarre attacks on a public figure in recent memory — the broad-daylight stabbing of Denver Fire Department Chief Eric Tade while he was sitting in his SUV at a busy intersection. And while Tade has been at the center of controversy in recent years — critics…
Yesterday, we told you about the death of Conifer’s Kelsey Hauser. The 25-year-old former bartender at Red Rocks was shot and killed while riding in a stolen car that became the target of a police chase in southern California, as was a pit bull also inside the vehicle. The car’s driver,…
Earlier this month, we shared Denver Police Department statistics showing that crime in the city was up in seven of nine categories, including homicides, which jumped an alarming 72.4 percent over the previous year. There were fifty homicides in Denver during 2015 — and it didn’t take long for the…
