The new status report from Independent Monitor and Westword profile subject Richard Rosenthal contains a real whopper: He says off-duty Denver officers caught driving drunk in Denver may be scoring get-out-of-jail free cards. Since 2005, ten off-duty Denver officers have been busted for drunk driving outside of Denver, but within…
Charged with murdering his girlfriend, Robert Walters decided to take his fate into his own hands. Figuring that the only real witness the cops had was his wife, who told police that Walters confessed everything to her, prosecutors say Walters hatched a plan to get rid of her, too –…
Louis Hampers, the former Children’s Hospital ER doctor charged with writing 654 phony prescriptions (in addition to harassing women he met on adult websites), won’t be doctoring or online dating any time soon. He pleaded guilty today to fourteen counts of prescription drug fraud, each of which carries potential prison…
Update: The arrest of Travis Forbes for attempted murder, sexual assault and arson in the horrible case of Lydia Tillman has brought fresh attention to an equally troubling matter — the April 1 disappearance of Kenia Monge, in which Forbes has described himself as a suspect. Now, Monge’s parents are…
According to Charles Irwin, executive director of Colorado Springs Pride Center, two of the five gay people recently attacked at a fast-food restaurant in the city were soldiers. Nonetheless, neither the mayor nor the city council will sign a hate-crime-denouncing resolution prompted by the assault, and neither will they issue…
By all accounts, a teenager busted by Adams County deputy David Morrow was plenty drunk. But Morrow’s the one in trouble — after allegedly punching the teen in the face, breaking his jaw in the process. Among the charges he’s facing: child abuse and second-degree assault…
The Brighton Police Department is under fire for allegedly giving special treatment to firefighter Randy Cleveland, who’s been charged with six domestic-violence-related felonies. But the BPD, which denies the claims about Cleveland, apparently has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to stupid pranks, as indicated by its arrest of six…
Brighton firefighter and former deputy sheriff Randy Cleveland is facing six felony counts, including assault and sex-assault charges, related to an alleged campaign of violence aimed at his wife and kids. But also under fire is the Brighton Police Department, which accusers say looked the other way — or offered…
As a town prosecutor, Castle Rock’s Christy Ausmus is tasked with trying to earn convictions against suspects. Now, however, she’s on the other side of a criminal charge. Ausmus and another couple are looking at assault and disorderly conduct allegations in a knock-down, drag-out fight at a youth baseball game…
As fire protection chief for Hygiene, William Nelson is called upon to ensure the safety and well-being of people in his community. But on Saturday night, at least one local allegedly needed protection from him. Nelson, 57, has been arrested on a potpourri of charges, including impersonating a police officer,…
The number of shocking hit-and-runs in the Denver area continue to mount. Now, hot on the peeled rubber of cases involving Brittany Gonzales, who allegedly struck a child but only stopped for her hubcap, and Lisa Norton, the so-called hit-and-swim driver, comes word of an incident in which a driver…
The heat on convicted child molester Richard Carl Heeringa has been turned up. In April, he wound up in the number four slot on Denver’s list of the top 25 most violent fugitives. Now, he’s been added to the U.S. Marshals Service’s 15 most wanted list for the entire country…
Lizardo Monje has pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiring to rob the bank where he worked. What are his odds of success? Well, police say they recorded him and an associate discussing the robbery — while they were sitting in the back of a cop car…
Last month, we shared reports that ex-Denver Players/Denver Sugar owner Brenda Stewart would cop a plea — and at a hearing yesterday, the agreement was formalized. In exchange for her pleading guilty to a single count of tax evasion, prosecutors dropped an appropriate number of other charges against the alleged…
Update below: Did a cat named Muffin die from a bad reaction to heroin? A toxicology post-mortem should answer that question — and determine whether or not Danielle Blankenship, 21, should be charged with felony animal cruelty after allegedly blowing heroin smoke in Muffin’s face…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the man killed July 4 on the 3200 block of Dahlia Street as Dominick Johnson, 28. He suffered a gunshot wound to the chest and was pronounced dead shortly after his arrival at Denver Health Medical Center. Still no word about possible suspects…
Britt Cox has been sentenced to life in prison for murdering Bonni Bergen, 49, with whom he shared a fondness for meth, and then torching her home in an attempt to cover his tracks. Which might have worked if the fire hadn’t burned off his hair and left marks on…
Over the past month or two, approximately three tons of equipment and ephemera associated with an indoor marijuana grow facility was found discarded at federal land site on Colorado’s Western Slope — likely after voters in Grand Junction, the area’s largest city, banned medical marijuana retail operations. And a Bureau…
How many addicts does it take to make a meth ring profitable? Fewer than you might think. According to the Seventeenth Judicial District DA’s office, a group of a dozen just-sentenced dealers and compatriots, led by Michael McCullar, are thought to have regularly serviced between 25 and fifty clients before…
How did you celebrate your independence on July 4? Phillip Harold Hall allegedly exercised his rights by taking a joy ride on a city tractor while completely plowed — which is appropriate in a way, but still against the law. What happened?…
One of last year’s most horrific crimes was the murder of Genesis Sims, age seven, whose body was found in the crawlspace of a Monument home. Now, Monique Lynch, the girlfriend of Genesis’s father, Hanif Sims, has been given a 27-year sentence for her role in the case, which may…
In a month filled with very strange crimes, Lisa Norton’s alleged hit-and-swim accident, which killed Gabriel Nielsen and badly injured his sister and daughter, still managed to stand out. And as an indication of the incident’s shocking nature, she’s been accused of first-degree murder in addition to the more common…
