Testimony began yesterday in the trial of Robert Walters, an Iraq war veteran charged with killing his girlfriend, Brittney Brashers, and then putting a hit on his wife so she couldn’t testify against him. The case against Walters was the subject of our story, “Dead End.” The first major witness…
This week, a Longmont teenager let his father know how much he didn’t want to take out the trash — with a knife, which he used to stab his dad in the back six times. And as Longmont Police Commander Jeff Satur explains, that’s not the only sharp instrument he…
Stealing money from an ATM is a lot easier in the comfort of home — or at least not while under video surveillance in their supposedly permanent location. That’s the apparent logic behind a series of ATM thefts allegedly committed by David Barela and his twin brother Davey, plus Vicente…
Update: The Denver Police Department has announced an arrest in the weekend murder of 27-year-old Brandon Sigala at the Knights Inn. The suspect is Scott Shorts, 43, who’s been booked on suspicion of first-degree murder. However, no booking photo of Shorts has been released to date, because the homicide investigation…
Update:Early on July 23, Sergeant Anthony Silva texted his parents from a Motel 6 in Denver a short time before he was due to head home to Illinois. The message read: “In some shit but ok. Call me 2morrow.” Before that call could come, Silva was dead — allegedly murdered…
The comments that popped up on our recent post about Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division inspections of dispensaries made it clear that many members of the MMJ community feel security-camera requirements are intrusive and overly expensive. But Bill Delany, owner of Good Earth Meds in Pagosa Springs, isn’t complaining. His system…
Jury selection in the trial of Robert Walters, an Iraq war veteran accused of killing his girlfriend and then putting a hit on his wife so she couldn’t testify against him, began Friday in Denver District Court, and opening arguments will likely begin tomorrow or Wednesday. The central question the…
Earlier today, we noted that Chatfield High School graduate Whitney Wonnacott is engaged to marry basketball star Jimmer Fredette. But another Chatfield product is in the news for a much less positive reason. Former Chatfield footballer James Skelton is one of two CSU Rams to have been cited in regard…
Update below: This weekend, I got around to watching Machete, director Robert Rodriguez’s variation on ’70s blaxploitation epics, with Danny Trejo as the blade-wielding title head chopper unleashed against the backdrop of a Texas-Mexico immigration battle. I found the results to be ultra-enjoyable — but I’ll bet I wouldn’t have…
The plea arrangement announced today in the case of a thirteen-year-old Burlington youth accused of killing his parents, who now faces seven years in the juvenile corrections system rather than a possible life sentence in adult prison, was hammered out through an unusual degree of collaboration between prosecution and defense…
It was among the most shocking crimes to take place in these parts during recent years: sixteen-year-old Nathan Bozonier was hit by a car, then beaten to death with a baseball bat. Now, Antonio Rios becomes the third person convicted in his murder, following Adrian Ray Quintana and Lakiesha Vigil…
Sometimes one sentence sums up a situation perfectly — and Rebecca Ward, a nineteen-year-old from London, reportedly uttered it after careening into not one, not two, but three cars in a wild, sparks-filled series of crashes in Boulder. That phrase? “I am so fucked.”…
When confronted with road rage, experts advise people to walk away rather than take on the aggressor — and a terrifying incident last week in Commerce City shows why. Karyn Roth is accused of slashing open Monica Trujillo’s face in an incident that began with a single honk…
Update: The Denver medical examiner has now identified the person found dead at 2371 Monaco as Larry Buerman, 53. He died of a stab wound to the chest. Yesterday, the Denver Police Department was unwilling to identify the incident as a crime — but the coroner’s office displays no such…
Last year, former Broomfield High School wrestling coach Travis Masse was accused of sexual assault on a child, a crime for which he was subsequently sentenced to life in prison — although he’s eligible for parole in ten years. Now Masse’s being sued by three former students who also target…
The February murders of Amara Wells and Bob Rafferty were followed by a series of busts, with arrestees including Amara’s estranged husband, Christopher Wells, and three men implicated in a murder-for-hire plot. But only now are getting the horrific details of the case, including an account about Rafferty’s six-year-old niece,…
A Fort Collins medical marijuana clinic was open as usual Monday despite being a crime scene the day before. As Michael Roberts reported yesterday in his post about a possible Fort Collins dispensary ban, Herbal Wellness LLC was robbed at gunpoint on Sunday. I spoke earlier with an Herbal Wellness…
Update: The bank-robbing, car-chase-leading Dougherty gang has not yet been charged with a pair of carjackings in Utah prior to their capture earlier this month. But the trio don’t want for accusations. A cumulative 76 charges were leveled against Internet skin pic sensation Lee Grace Dougherty and her siblings yesterday,…
Update: Aurora’s Jasmine Fike, the fifteen-year-old whose frantic 911 call about an abductor about to take her set off a nationwide Amber Alert last week, has been found — and she didn’t go far. Police discovered her, disguised but still recognizable, near a fast-food restaurant on East Colfax, an area…
At just shy of 3 a.m. on Sunday morning, the Denver Police Department received a call about a violent argument. But it involved more than that. Cops found a woman who’d been stabbed, and she soon succumbed to her wounds. Now, Deon Porchia has been arrested in relation to what…
Opponents of a Westminster Police drug-enforcement checkpoint note correctly that alcohol-related crashes like Department of Corrections officer Jason Ulrich’s are far more prevalent those those involving narcotics. But the latter do happen, as shown by the case of Joshua Wittig, just sentenced to ten years in an incident that initially…
Although the Westminster Police recently staged a drug enforcement checkpoint, most under-the-influence crashes still tend to involve alcohol. The arrest of Department of Corrections officer Jason Ulrich is a case in point: He tested at more than triple the standard for drunkenness following a crash into a car occupied by…
