Erick Perez’s sentencing this week for second degree assault and unlawful sexual conduct brings to a close the prosecution of a highly unusual case that led to the conviction of five other young men — some of them teenagers when the crime was committed. It started with a party. And…
We’ve known since 2010 that the senseless slaying of sixteen-year-old Alicia Martinez was allegedly followed by a horrific attempt at body disposal by accused killer Edward Timothy Romero. But the info emerging from the trial of Francesca Pagliasotti, charged with helping to cover up the crime, is even more loathsome…
Tomorrow morning, James Craig Bird is slated to be sentenced after pleading guilty to pattern child sexual assault by a person in a position of trust. His court appearance marks a remarkable turn of events for a man who created a website and a video (see it below) to proclaim…
Update below: The Denver District Attorney’s Office has announced that it’s solved four cold cases: the murders of a quartet of women between 1979 and 1988. The slayer: Vincent Groves, who may be the most prolific serial killer in the state’s history…
At least one of Dennis Foust’s neighbors sees him as a loving and caring son who went to extremes to care for his elderly mother. But the Colorado Springs Police Department thinks otherwise — maybe because the woman, age 86, was found lying on the floor in her own filth…
David Tarver has admittedly been molesting children — most prominently his own — since the late 1980s, at least. Fortunately, that will stop, thanks to a just-imposed sentence of 88 years to life in prison. But no doubt the horrible offenses detailed in the arrest affidavit will linger for a…
A plastic patio wall doesn’t seem capable of containing anyone who really wants to tear through it — especially someone with a knife. But what if there’s a fence on the other side? That’s the situation in which Robert Engles found himself after allegedly deciding he’d rather split than pay…
When does an armed robbery earn a gunman 224 years in prison? When the person who committed the crime not only tried to take a shot at a cop, but is subsequently deemed a habitual criminal, thereby multiplying the sentence in a big way. Which is precisely what happened to…
The criminal complaint against Paul dos Santos Silva, Jr., a Brazilian national, is among the most repulsive documents of its kind you’ll ever read. Why? It features extended online conversations in which he shares his desires to molest a four-year-old — and that’s only the beginning of his shocking fantasies…
For more than a month, the Colorado Springs Police Department has been on the lookout for Alonzo Paige, the prime suspect in a quadruple shooting that left two men dead. Imagine their surprise when yesterday afternoon, he walked into police headquarters and surrendered to authorities…
Authorities say an embalmer at a Lakewood funeral home found a creepy way to make some cash: pawning the gold teeth of the dead. Adrian Kline, 43, of Brighton, has been indicted on eight counts of providing false information to a pawn broker, two counts of doing the same to…
Jimmy Fleetwood stands accused of pulling a gun on another driver during a road rage incident near Boulder. Why might he have done so? Well, his wife Lauren, who was also busted, since the weapon was found in the car’s backseat near their two young kids, suggests that the Oklahoman…
A 77-year-old grandmother survived what appears to have been an approximately five-hour-long ordeal during which she was repeatedly abused and threatened with weapons ranging from what turned out to be a toy gun to an actual knife. The alleged assailant, who was taken into custody by Colorado Springs Police? Her…
This month’s mug shot roundup features arrestees at the center of an uncommonly wide range of offenses — from an alleged cell phone thief/reseller to Jeremiah Barnum (pictured), a convicted hate criminal shot to death by police. See the entire collection below, and be sure to click on the links…
There’s no coherent explanation yet for seventeen-year-old T.J. Lane’s attack on Chardon High School in Ohio on Monday, which killed three students and injured two others — and the “why” may prove elusive for some time to come. The shootings have been treated as utterly random, although recent reports suggest…
At last report, Bill Johnson and his two kids — a five-year-old girl and a sixteen-month-old boy — continue clinging to life after one of the most shocking examples of domestic violence in recent memory. Northglenn Police believe that Johnson assaulted his estranged wife before barricading her outside a duplex…
How did police locate Dominique Redwood, who’s just been convicted of sexual assault and more in relation to a brutal daylight incident at a light-rail station? By tracing the victim’s phone, which was found to contain the number of the man who called himself “Baby Showkase.”…
Perrish Cox is no longer a member of the Denver Broncos. The team cut him in September, allegedly because of on-field issues, and not because he had been charged with two sex crimes after allegedly fathering the child of his rape victim. The accusation is scheduled to be explored in…
Yesterday, a member of the Englewood Police Department shot and killed a man outside a Walgreens store. And the dead man was notorious long before he breathed his last. Jeremiah Barnum was at the center of what former Westword writer Jared Jacang Maher once described as “Denver’s most famous hate-crime…
At a certain age, kids want to go to public restrooms unaccompanied. But parents always worry about bad things happening there — and the story of David Rigoulot illustrates why. Rigoulot has been given a three-years-to-life sentence for entering a bathroom stall with an eight-year old and touching his genitals…
Apparently marijuana isn’t as easy for teens to get as pot opponents argue. Otherwise, would there be a market for spice, also known as synthetic marijuana? Police believe the demand was high at a Sun Mart near East High School — the site of a prominent bust in which investigators…
It was almost three years ago that I first got interested in the case of Tara Perry, subject of this week’s feature, “The Girl Who Fell to Earth.” Perry was among several inmates considered strong candidates for clemency — all of whom were serving disproportionately long sentences and appeared to…
