Last week, we told you about the decision of the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office to name Miguel Angel Ita, fifteen, as the prosecutorial target in a fatal Lakewood stabbing and begin the procedure to try him as an adult. That process has changed, and not for the better in…
It’s a good indication that a month included some memorable mug shots if one of them features a guy (James Lohr) who’s shaved off his eyebrows and replaced them with tattoos of the words “HARD” and “LUCK.” But if this particular image stands out, plenty of others from our April…
Update: The tale of Felix Trujillo’s escape from Denver jail last month, and deputy Matthew Andrews’s alleged role in helping him do so, was already plenty weird. But it just got a whole lot stranger. Trujillo now says the escape plan came from Andrews, based on the mistaken notion that…
Update: Yesterday, Denver police announced, with a good deal of hoopla, that an arrest had been made in the March 31 vandalism of the Big Blue Bear at the Colorado Convention Center, during which the tourism symbol was splashed with green paint. Mere hours later, however, the Denver District Attorney’s…
Update: Earlier today, we questioned whether an alleged break in the case of an eight year old’s shooting yesterday evening was actually a case of premature tweeting; see our previous coverage below. Turns out it was: 9News, which had rushed out photos of a white Volvo in connection with news…
Update below: Are attorneys for accused theater shooter James Holmes considering entering a plea of not guilty by reason of insanity, or NGRI, against Holmes’s will? A court document filed Monday hints as much. “As the Colorado Supreme Court recognized…a defendant’s own thoughts, desires and opinions about a plea may…
Update: Two people have been arrested in the April 24 shooting death of Charles Edward Harris; see our previous coverage below. The pair in custody are Daryl Thompson Sr. and Daryl Thompson Jr. They’re a father and son reportedly nicknamed Big Mad Dog and Little Mad Dog. The elder Thompson…
As the weather has warmed up, the number of homicides in the metro area has escalated in a disturbing way. We added three new posts to our Mile High Murder archive last week alone, and early Saturday morning, another homicide took place outside a Denny’s restaurant. The victim: Chris Haney,…
Last night, a man was loading groceries into his car after shopping at a King Soopers on the 15000 block of East Colfax in Aurora when he looked up to see something shocking. Nearby was a 67-year-old woman in a wheelchair who appeared to be hurt — and she was…
In the vast majority of cases — even serious cases — when juveniles are charged with crimes, prosecutors routinely decline to release their names. So it’s highly unusual that the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office is sharing the name of fifteen year old Miguel Angel Ita, who’s been charged in…
The Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons website draws attention to unsolved murders, and we tried to do likewise in three posts last year — in May, September and November. The ten crimes featured in this installment include two of the most famous unsolved crimes in Boulder history: the…
At this writing, Juan Flores is a free man — but he’s not supposed to be. Flores was released early from Adams County Jail. He’s been at large for the better part of two weeks now — and the Department of Corrections, which has had to answer uncomfortable questions about…
Given the number of serious crimes that are committed in these parts, shoplifters don’t typically get a great deal of attention. But a man wanted in Jefferson County is an exception to this rule, thanks to the volume of thefts he’s allegedly committed, but also for what he’s accused of…
Sometimes getting caught for one crime leads to the discovery of other far-worse ones. That appears to be the case with Joel White, a youth soccer coach from Missouri. White was busted at the U.S. soccer team’s World Cup-qualifying match at Dick’s Sporting Goods Park for allegedly swiping jerseys and…
Evan Ebel, the man thought to have killed pizza-delivery man Nathan Leon and Colorado prison chief Tom Clements, cut off his electronic ankle bracelet, and it took his chief probation officer nearly four days to do anything about it. Ebel was a hell-raising inmate and a model parolee. The question,…
On the eve of a 25-week trial that promised to focus on claims of poor training and worse management, the nation’s largest private prison company has reached a settlement with nearly 200 former inmates over a 2004 riot at the Crowley County Correctional Facility in southeastern Colorado. The uprising, which…
In August, we told you the very strange story of David Moe, a preschool teacher arrested on child-porn charges. At first, parents feared he might have molested kids under his supervision, or taken disturbing photos of them, especially when info surfaced about a “hugs journal” that appeared to be sexualizing…
Deep within each college student beats the heart of a crime fighter. This statement may seem absurd, but not to the folks with the CU-Boulder police. Department personnel recently nabbed Javier Silva-Acosta on fraud-related charges just three hours after sharing information about him on social media. Moreover, Acosta’s arrest is…
Update: At this time yesterday morning, we followed up on our coverage of the shooting at Saturday’s 4/20 celebration by sharing the image seen here of a man the Denver Police Department identified as a suspect. The headline on the post (see our original coverage below) asked the question, “Do…
We’ve been reporting about the shootings at the 4/20 Civic Center Park rally on Saturday, as well as the continuing search for a suspect caught on video. Watching developments closely is event organizer Miguel Lopez, who’s having difficulty getting around the better part of two days since the startling incident…
Tom Clements, the reform-minded head of the Colorado Department of Corrections who was murdered at his home last month by a parolee, makes a posthumous appearance in a new video advocating for one of his favorite causes: more substance abuse treatment for chronic, low-level offenders, freeing up costly prison beds…
Sex-assault offenders are typically either known to their victims or are strangers to them. But seldom are they both at the same time — which makes the circumstances of the crime for which nineteen-year-old Brandon William Johnson has been accused even weirder and more disturbing than it would be otherwise…
