This week’s cover story, “Blue in Orange,” is about Willie Clark, who was convicted in 2010 of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams. Clark is now appealing that conviction and is also fighting prison officials in court to get himself out of solitary confinement, where he’s been kept for five…
Last December, as you’ll recall, CU student Thomas Cunningham was busted for “pot brownie assault” — allegedly feeding a teacher and fellow pupils marijuana-laced treats. Cunningham ultimately received a two-year deferred sentence that will be wiped from his record if he stays out of trouble. Davirak Ky may not be…
After the murder of Colorado Department of Corrections chief Tom Clements last spring by parole absconder Evan Ebel , it was obvious that the state’s creaky, overburdened parole system was overdue for some serious scrutiny. Now, Governor John Hickenlooper has proposed a 25 percent boost in the parole budget for…
Aurora theater shooting case Judge Carlos Samour has issued several rulings related to motions seeking to suppress evidence in the case. The motions were filed by attorneys for suspect James Holmes and they request that certain evidence, including Holmes’s online dating profiles and statements he made to the police after…
So…you’re stopped by police when you’ve got drugs on your person. What to do? The most popular options exercised by scofflaws over the years include: 1. Throwing it away. 2. Eating it. 3. Hiding it in the handiest orifice available. Michelle Rendon allegedly picked number three — but her orifice…
Kenneth Lankford, 46, was once the fourth most wanted man in the state of Utah, evading capture by disappearing into the woods. This weekend, authorities believe he was back in a forest — the Black Forest, near Colorado Springs — when he shot and killed two people, including his wife,…
Aurora Rise, a nonprofit founded by the owner of local comic book store All C’s Collectibles, is hosting a screening of Thor: The Dark World on November 12 at the Aurora Movie Tavern. A portion of the ticket sales will benefit the foundation, which provides support to the victims of…
We usually associate the crossed-arms, look-over-one-shoulder pose with senior pictures. But as you can tell by Floyd Sandoval’s outfit, this particular photo was snapped for a very different reason — in his case, an arrest for first-degree murder. It’s just one of the memorable images from October. Check out the…
UPDATE: A court has sentenced Robert Gonzales to 112 years to life in prison. The sentence is more than twice that handed down to Thomas White, who was convicted of a similar crime in early January 2015. The First Judicial District DA’s office has filed fifteen charges against 39-year-old Robert…
Should Willie Clark, who was convicted of murdering Denver Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams, be kept in solitary confinement in prison? That’s the question at the heart of this week’s cover story, “Blue in Orange,” which also details Clark’s criminal appeal. Clark says that he’s innocent and furthermore, he says that…
Yesterday, we reported that a videographer at the Million Mask March on Tuesday in downtown Denver had alleged police brutality against her and others at the City & County Building, and offered footage of the incident as evidence; see it below. Since then, we’ve spoken at length with another marcher,…
Jason Grimmer, sixteen, was killed by a hit-and-run driver this past New Year’s Eve in a troubling incident that resulted in the arrest and subsequent release of a suspect and lawsuit threats over alleged police bungling. Meanwhile, though, the person responsible for his death remains at large and unpunished. Now,…
Back in September, we told you about the arrest of youth pastor and musician Jason Roberson for child sex assault, after a former church member accused him of an inappropriate relationship that lasted seven years, beginning when she was fifteen; see our previous coverage below. Now, five church officials have…
Last night, sexually violent predator Gregory Buerge was arrested mere hours after the Lakewood Police Department put out an alert revealing that his whereabouts were unknown. In the opinion of Detective Ryan McKone, LPD spokesman, Buerge didn’t go off the radar due to an oversight. “It appears to us that…
In February, shortly before the Colorado Rockies’ season got underway, first baseman Todd Helton was busted for drunk driving. Helton wound up retiring at the end of the mediocre campaign, and now, Rockies co-owner Charlie Monfort has been taken into custody on suspicion of the same crime. Monfort and his…
About a year and a half ago, before he made headlines for allegedly kidnapping an eight-year-old girl in Aurora, John Snorsky contacted me. He’d read a story I’d written about a state law that would allow counties to place abused kids at a facility for juvenile delinquents, and he wanted…
It was one of the most shocking crimes in Loveland this past summer — a July triple stabbing in which forty-year-old Stephanie Rose Smith died. The case seemed to make little progress over the months that followed, even though it seemed clear the authorities knew the identifies of the other…
The 1999 Columbine shootings continue to cast a long shadow over schools nationwide, but especially in the Denver area. Case in point: The national media immediately perked up at news overnight that two juveniles with long guns had apparently broken into not one but two local schools and were involved…
The flooding in Boulder County may not be dominating newscasts the way it did back in September, but plenty of people in the area are still in recovery mode — and many of them are plenty stressed, as illustrated by a recent incident on a road still accessible only to…
The arrest of Colorado Avalanche goalie Semyon Varlamov for allegedly beating girlfriend Evgeniya Vavrinyuk is a story that naturally falls into both the news and sports categories. As such, it’s also been a major topic on sports-talk radio — and on Friday, ESPN Denver and 104.3/The Fan took vastly different…
Late last month, we wrote about a sweeping police search for the man accused of pulling an eight-year-old girl through the window of her Aurora bedroom; see our previous coverage below. Now, police believe they’ve got their man: John Snorsky, 26, a fledgling artist photographed in zombie makeup by Westword…
We don’t usually associate online slide shows with police departments. But the PD in Boulder has posted the equivalent of one in relation to the recent arrest of sex offender Eugene Martinez, rounded up after he’d managed to escape from Denver police headquarters. Boulder cops found lotsa items after taking…
