After a fatal shooting Wednesday night on West Avondale Drive, the Denver police have arrested one suspect, 29-year-old Timothy Wakefield. Witnesses told police that Wakefield was arguing with the still-unidentified victim before the shooting, which took place a little after 8 p.m. March 26 at 3233 West Avondale Drive. According…
Gabrial Adams, a 38-year-old inmate serving life without parole for his role in a headline-grabbing double-murder committed when he was a teenager, was found dead in his cell on March 9. Although autopsy results have not yet been released and the Colorado Department of Corrections is offering little information about…
The suspects linked to a huge Colorado Springs burglary ring apparently felt that accidentally being hit by a car was as big a threat as getting caught snatching and grabbing, since at least one crew member is said to have worn a reflective safety vest near crime scenes. Unfortunately for…
Last month, we told you about a suit filed by the Boulder District Attorney’s Office against Silverio Nuanez, a 74-year-old accused of allowing his residence to be transformed into a meth flop house. This action seems to have had little effect thus far. Police raided the home again yesterday, arresting…
Customers at a Qdoba in Lone Tree got a lot more for their money than a fast-casual burrito last night. That’s because one employee of restaurant, located in one of the many Park Meadows shopping areas (not far from a Barnes & Noble and a Mattress King) stabbed a co-worker…
In a motion that quotes liberally from Twitter, defense attorneys for Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes asked the court this week to order Colorado Judicial Branch public information officer Rob McCallum to comply with a gag order in the case. Their main complaint? That McCallum uses Twitter to disseminate…
Meth suspects, like every other arrestee in these United States, is innocent until proven guilty, and that’s the way it should be. But most of us have noticed that in booking photos, those accused of such crimes tend to look, well, rough. That’s certainly the case for the fourteen people…
A second mental evaluation of Aurora theater shooting gunman James Holmes will be postponed until objections raised by Holmes’s attorneys have been resolved, Judge Carlos Samour ruled this week. Samour’s order (on view below) is in response to three motions filed by the defense on March 14 asking Samour to…
Was marijuana a contributing factor in the death of two-year-old Levi Welton earlier this year? Expect this to be among the arguments made against his parents, Julia and Chris Welton. More than two months after Levi died following a fire in the family’s Sterling home, his mother and father have…
Update: Yesterday, we told you about the arrest of Thomas Laperch after an arson call turned into a homicide investigation; see our previous coverage below. Now, the victim in the incident has been identified as William Burchett, a 54-year-old musician best known for his work with a local band called…
Last week, we updated you on the investigation into the murder of Nancy Pfister, a socialite whose body was discovered in a closet of her tony Aspen home; see our previous coverage below. Retired Denver-area doctor William Styler and his wife Nancy had previously been arrested in relation to the…
It started as a missing persons case. But well over a month later, Lafayette resident Nate Tallman’s body was discovered a long way from home — outside Lusk, a town in Wyoming. Now, two men — Russell Britton, 58, and Moises Mendez, 26 — have been arrested in connection with…
It’s one of the most shocking crimes in the Denver music community over the past decade — the slaying of 21-year-old Kurt Levias during a melee outside a Bluebird Theater hip-hop show in 2004. Now, finally, an arrest has been made in the case: George Allen IV, who reportedly went…
In its coverage of Sandy Nguen, who allegedly scammed $25,000 from friends and neighbors by pretending her son had cancer, 7News describes the alleged crime as “unbelievable.” In truth, however, it’s all too easy to believe someone would perpetrate such a hoax — since it’s happened several times in Colorado…
Attorneys for Aurora theater shooter James Holmes have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court to compel Fox News reporter Jana Winter to reveal her sources in court. Specifically, they’re asking the high court to overturn a New York appeals court ruling that Winter, who is based in New York, is…
Martin Espinoza has been formally charged with 55 counts in relation to a giant condominium fire in Adams County that forced hundreds of people out of their homes. But in a sprawling post shared on his Facebook page, Espinoza, twenty, claims his innocence, complains about being singled out as a…
Yesterday, we recapped the wild, hour-long chase that resulted in the arrest of Ryan Stone, who’d stolen a car with a four-year-old inside. Given that a number of cars were struck during the pursuit, and a state trooper was seriously injured, should authorities have backed off, especially after the child…
At first, Alejandra Cardona Lamas couldn’t have imagined that a single good thing would come out of July 20, 2012. She was among the hundreds of fans gathered for the midnight screening of The Dark Night Rises at the Century 16 multiplex in Aurora. And she was there for the…
This morning’s news cycle was dominated by an event that many Coloradans watched live — a police chase after a car-jacking suspect who’d raced away from a Longmont gas station in a stolen vehicle with a four-year-old boy inside. Fortunately, the conclusion of the story is relatively happy for most…
We haven’t personally gotten a whiff of a couple being sought by Lakewood police. But either they are obsessed with smelling nice or they stink so badly that they need some powerful stuff to cover up the aroma. Twice in recent weeks, the pair tried ripping off fragrances from area…
Every parent knows how difficult it can be to find a babysitter — and when one isn’t available, moms and dads are often put in the position of bringing a child with them even when the situation isn’t ideal. If the folks at the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office are right,…
Last week, after battling for more than a decade to execute Edward Montour Jr. for the 2002 murder of guard Eric Autobee at the Limon prison, prosecutors abruptly caved on the second day of his trial, agreeing to a deal that will keep Montour in prison for life without parole…
