Back in the lock-’em-up frenzy of the 1990s, the Colorado Department of Corrections became increasingly reliant on private prison operators to stash its excess supply of felons. Those private companies tended to build their McPrisons in small towns on the eastern plains, far from the occupants’ families, promising to hire…
Earlier this year, Durango-area prosecutor Reid Stewart noted what he called a “strange dynamic” between Joe Griffith, 44, and his now-twenty-year-old son, Logan. That’s one way of putting it. Both Griffiths have now been sentenced for their roles in the January robbery of a marijuana shop in Durango. But while the…
The photo gallery on the Facebook page of Kenei Unique Love contains numerous shots like the one above, in which she and significant other Melvin Lewis display warmth and a playful camaraderie. This image contrasts sharply with the accounts contained in separate probable cause statements about an incident earlier this…
On September 5, Tiffany Rasnic updated her current Facebook status to read, “Divorced.” But in subsequent posts, she sounded an upbeat tone. In an October 14 reply to a Facebook fan, she wrote, “Finally got back on feet, doing better than ever. Got a new car, an SUV, got a…
Colorado is home to some of the most dangerous and notorious people in America owing to the presence of supermax facilities in the state. Among them are “Unabomber” Ted Kaczynski, “Shoe Bomber” Richard Reid and “Underwear Bomber” Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab. Now, these notorious criminals are reportedly being joined by Gary Ridgway, also…
All too often, young victims of child abuse resulting in serious bodily injury don’t survive the harm inflicted upon them. Fortunately, the three-month-old twin boys of Destinee Reynolds are an exception to this rule. At this point, however, there’s no way of knowing if permanent damage was done to them…
Over the past year or so, we’ve shared a disheartening number of stories about inmates who’ve died in a variety of jails due to allegedly substandard medical care. In June 2014, we told you about Christopher Lopez, whose jailers at the San Carlos Correctional Facility in Pueblo joked and laughed as he…
The Denver coroner’s office has identified a man killed on Thursday evening, October 115, at the Spyglass Hill Apartments, 7100 E. Mississippi Avenue, as Isaiah Roquemore, 28. Roquemore was one of two people injured in the shooting at the apartment complex. The cause of death was a shotgun wound. The Denver…
To date, the reports about the arrest of Sabrina Davis have been vague. They simply state that Davis is accused of having sexual exploitative material on her cell phone involving a nine-year-old family member and another six-year-old boy. But the alleged content of those images, as detailed in a probable…
This morning, the Colorado Springs Police Department formally identified the woman who died in an October 16 homicide as 32-year-old Fawn Christine Gianes. However, the victim’s sister, Krystal Wielichowski, asked KRDO-TV in the Springs to refer to her by her maiden name and put the word “Gianes” in parentheses. “She’s a Wielichowski,”…
Over recent years, there have been a distressing number of hit-and-run accidents involving cyclists in the area, with far too many of them having fatal consequences. Fortunately, the worst didn’t happen to 54-year-old Mark Mihelic. He’s expected to survive, even though his injuries are frightful. 9News reports that Mihelic suffered a severe concussion, internal…
The most recent post on Zack Zuchowski’s Facebook page (it dates back to early 2014) reads, “The moment someone doesn’t deserve shit and should just die and go to hell.” If law enforcers with the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office are right, Zuchowski tried to make this line a reality. Last week, he…
Gabino Otero-Labra, known on Facebook as Gabino Otero, stands accused of having sexually assaulted a thirteen-year-old girl when he was 24. But the alleged victim isn’t around to witness his prosecution. The girl died in 2012 from a brain tumor, long before law enforcers working cold cases gathered enough evidence…
Early on October 14, Jesse Wright posted the following comment on his Facebook page: “Almost home to the 303 cant wait to be bacc in Denver been gone too long.” Barely 24 hours later, Wright was presumably less happy to be in Colorado. That’s because he was in custody of…
Recent stories about the death of 23-month-old Jayvion Johnson and the arrest of Kinyaita Davis, who allegedly abused her two kids using a steam iron and a power drill, have led to calls for an investigation into Denver Human Services, an agency that had already been apprised of potential problems in each…
The accusation that Lakewood mom Julie Greiner pimped her own 12-year-old daughter is shocking enough. But it becomes even more disturbing when described in the fourteen-page arrest affidavit on view below. The document goes into incredible detail about Greiner’s alleged decision to allow her pre-teen child to have sex with…
According to an arrest affidavit on view below, one court appearance by Dane Hampel will lead directly to another one. The reason: The death of an eight-month-old pit bull puppy that Hampel allegedly left in a hot car during a previous trip through the justice system. The incident in question…
At this hour, Denver police officers are investigating a shooting following what’s described as an attempted robbery at a marijuana grow at a home in South Denver. This scenario suggests that this could be the first reported Make My Day shooting involving a pot grow. However, officers on the scene…
Tori Jo Carlson hardly looks like the kind of person to terrorize a neighborhood. But that’s precisely what members of the Thornton Police Department believe the 22-year-old did. Carlson, whose Facebook page lists her place of employment as the Tilted Kilt (and includes several photos that appear to have been…
In August, we told you about the arrest of Ivan Lopez-Banuelos and Alese Silva for an alleged kidnapping that netted $80. Now, Denver District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough tells us these charges are being dropped. But if that sounds like good news, it’s not. The previous accusations against Silva…
Most of us spent Saturday afternoon enjoying the sort of weather that seems even more glorious during October. But residents of an apartment complex near East Dartmouth Avenue and South Parker Road experienced shock and horror. First, they heard a weapon firing. Then they found the victim of the gunshots. Even…
Earlier this week, we told you about the arrest of ten foreign nationals after law enforcers found two illegal marijuana grows on federal land along Colorado’s Western Slope. Now, the U.S. Attorney’s Office reveals that these busts were two of six grows on federal or private land taken down in…
