Members of the Boulder Police Department want you to lock your car. Really. Seriously. No kidding. In fact, they so badly want you to lock your car that this morning, the BPD’s Twitter account spewed out six tweets telling you to lock your car over the span of four minutes…
Despite the allegations against him in the Aurora Theater Shooting, accused killer James Holmes has plenty of defenders, including members of the James Holmes Is Innocent Facebook page and so-called Holmies fan groups. Now, an editor at the Washington Times is also saying Holmes was railroaded — but only when…
Since we first wrote about the arrest on child-sex-assault charges of Richard Koca, who founded StandUp For Kids, a nonprofit devoted to helping homeless youth (see our original coverage below), Aurora police have released more info about this shocking turn. Meanwhile, a StandUp For Kids statement implies that Koca has…
On August 26, Gary Haney, forty, was shot and killed at a Wheat Ridge Ramada Inn after a long standoff with a SWAT team. Afterward, accounts like this one noted his past criminal history, but not his previous self-created image as the “cunning but kindhearted Big Daddy of Denver’s nightlife”…
Update: We’ve obtained the probable cause statement in Denver Police Officer Celena Hollis’s death. See it below earlier coverage. Original post, 6:59 p.m. September 13: Rollin Oliver, accused of murdering Denver Policewoman Celena Hollis, admitted to officers that he fired at least two shots on June 24 in City Park,…
It’s not often that a judge tells prosecutors that a plea deal is too generous and they need to start over. But that’s what happened in the case of eighteen-year-old Joseph Nelson. And given the horrific acts of mutilation Nelson is said to have committed against his mother’s dog, this…
Earlier this month, thieves broke into a Denver bike shop at night and successfully stole ten BMX bikes, worth around $4,000 total. The owner of the Evans Avenue shop, called Pusher BMX, was pissed to discover the damage the next day. But that wasn’t the worst moment of frustration. Since…
The Boulder Police Department has just updated its most wanted list, with the men on it accused of crimes ranging from assault to bike theft. And then there’s Thayne Smika, charged last year with the 1983 murder of Sid Wells, boyfriend of actor Robert Redford’s daughter, Shauna. Smika’s whereabouts are…
The latest developments in the Seth Brigham saga are sad but not exactly shocking. Known as Boulder’s most annoying critic, Brigham recently won a court case blocking a permanent restraining order against him — but he declined to sue the city after suffering what attorney David Lane deemed a breakdown…
Update: Rich Audsley, speaking for the 7/20 Recovery Committee, has released a statement responding to criticism from families of Aurora theater shooting victims. It’s included after our original coverage. Tom Teves, the father of Aurora theater shooting victim Alex Teves, lambasted the way Giving First, a program of the Community…
German Medina is gone. At this writing, no one knows where the undocumented immigrant is, but he’s definitely wanted…by the Aurora Police Department and the 17th Judicial District DA’s office, which has charged Medina in absentia with first-degree murder of his girlfriend, Bertha Garcia. And the background circumstances are disturbing…
Earlier this month, Christopher Garduno, 38, was found murdered outside Village By the Park Apartments in Northglenn. Now, the Northglenn Police Department has made an arrest in the case, jailing Demetrius Trujillo, 35, on a first-degree-murder warrant. Thus far, though, details are scarce…
In August, family members of eleven victims killed in the Aurora theater shooting came together for a joint press conference to express their concern that millions of dollars donated in their loved ones’ names were not reaching them. Three weeks and three meetings later, some of them say they still…
Last week, we told you about a bizarre court filing in the Aurora theater shooting case — one that blamed the incident on a police chief and the Illuminati, among others. Shortly thereafter, Reddit user FreedomsTorch set out to unmask the prankster behind the document. He concludes the culprit is…
Better late than never. Our roundup of this past month’s most memorable mug shots includes two Denver Broncos, a CEO, a high school grad turned media star and all manner of people accused or convicted of crimes ranging from the strange to the heinous. Check out the entire collection below,…
On Saturday, the wall on Zachary Sare’s Facebook page began filling up with best wishes for his 24th birthday. Shortly thereafter, however, the posts took on a tragic character. That’s because Sare was killed that evening in an incident that’s being investigated as a homicide…
Rickey Servine, Jr. has been charged with sexual assault and false imprisonment for “violently and aggressively” assaulting a female client of Rocky Mountain Offender Management Systems in Aurora, according to Officer Frank Fania, spokesman for the Aurora police. Servine, 35, worked for the company, known as RMOMS — which provides…
What could have fueled 21-year-old bicyclist Taylor Rose’s behavior when he allegedly pulled a knife on a truck driver? According to the police report on view below, Boulder cops had a number of substances from which to choose: the booze said to be on his breath, the pot in his…
In May, we shared a post featuring personal stories of victims in ten unsolved Denver murders, with the information provided by Families of Homicide Victims and Missing Persons, an organization devoted to making sure no case or loved one is forgotten. Unfortunately, there are many more tragic events of this…
These days, lotsa people don’t believe something has happened unless they’ve posted about it on Facebook. But Taveuan Williams is said to have taken such feelings to an extreme, when he reportedly Facebooked a photo while at the center of a six-hour hostage drama at an East Colfax RadioShack, along…
Even those of us who buy and use recycled items tend to draw the line at sex toys — because we may not know where they’ve been, but we can guess. Does that make Charles Bush an environmentalist? Not to the Greeley Police Department, which arrested him on the shmucky…
Earlier, we introduced you to the James Holmes is Innocent Facebook group, whose members say they’re uninterested in wild conspiracy theories — like, for example, the assertions in the strangest Aurora theater shooting document to date. The motion, made public yesterday and on view below, deals with claims allegedly (but…
