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…
On Facebook, Kyle McClelland comes across as a loving father who dearly misses his two little boys. At last report, however, McClelland was ensconced in the Jefferson County jail on suspicion of child abuse after the toddlers were found wandering a south Jeffco street. The drama began yesterday, when the…
Every time society seems to be moving toward greater understanding and tolerance, there’s an incident that reminds us how far we still have to go. The bias-motivated crime arrest of Sean Boylan is a case in point. According to an affidavit on view below, Boylan attacked a man outside a…
Earlier this week, we posted about two illegal marijuana grows found on federal land. Ten foreign nationals were busted in separate operations. Now, Mario Garcia and six others are in custody on charges related to an illegal grow of their own — one they allegedly built up on private land…
Law enforcement agencies frequently share wanted posters via social media — so the recent presence of one on the Morgan County Sheriff’s Office Facebook page doesn’t qualify as a surprise. But the man at the center of it certainly did. The person seen in multiple images on the graphic, on view…
Last year, in a post entitled “Is Colorado Pot So Good It’s Making Mexican Cartels Want to Take Over?,” Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA), shared some worries. “From what we’re hearing, Colorado marijuana is a lot more desirable than the Mexican marijuana,” he…
The U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum outside Florence, Colorado, better known as ADX, has a deserved reputation as the highest-security supermax prison on the planet. It houses some of the most notorious inmates in North America — from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and shoe bomber Richard Reid to Aryan Brotherhood leader Barry…
Earlier this year, we told you about Uber driver Gerald Montgomery, who was arrested on suspicion of trying to burglarize a client’s home — presumably because he’d taken her to the airport and knew she was headed out of town. Now, according to an arrest affidavit on view below, an…
The senseless massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which took the lives of twenty children, including Olivia Engel, seen here, plus seven adults, instantly stirs terrible memories of the 1999 attack on Columbine High School. On the tenth anniversary of that tragedy, we assembled a horrific roster of school shootings in the…
We’ve been reporting about the murder of two-year-old Donnie Ro’Mello Romero Jr. at the Lakewood apartment where he lived, allegedly by his cousin, Roman Morales. Donnie was laid to rest this past Friday in a superhero casket that reflected his love of costumed characters. Now, an arrest affidavit has been released…
In recent weeks, we’ve reported about numerous high-profile crimes on the 16th Street Mall. Included among them — a beating by a group of teens, a stabbing and the arrest of Jerry Odell, who allegedly committed four sexual assaults within minutes of each other. Now comes word of another sex assault…
Plenty of disturbing crimes made the headlines in September. Among them: the arrest of Audra Moquist, who’s accused of conspiring with her brother, Jarrod Moquist, to kill her former boyfriend, who’d become the subject of a long and emotionally devastating search. The booking photos of both Moquists are included in…
The bloodshed continues. The warm early fall weather has brought with it a rash of shootings in the metro-Denver area, with a number of them having fatal results. Two more took place early Sunday morning, September 27, in Aurora. The first left a man dead. The second resulted in a serious…
