Juan Carlos Garcia-Castrejon doesn’t turn eighteen until September, but the Denver District Attorney’s Office has already branded him an adult. That’s how he’s been charged in the Mother’s Day murder of Brighton’s Briana Rae Ramon, seventeen, after a house party spun out of control…
No one should get behind the wheel when they’re drunk — but some people should really, really, really not guzzle and drive. Like David Cabral, 23, who happens to be blind in one eye. Which may account for him nearly running over several people after downing four drinks…
Although William Ples Hunt was convicted of murder during the 1980s, he was later granted parole after blowing the whistle on a corrupt prison. So what did Hunt do with his second chance? He wasted it by trying to blow up his ex-girlfriend’s house — an act for which he’s…
On Monday, Denver Post sportswriter Natalie Meisler, age sixty, tweeted that she was “almost half thru Bolder Boulder.” But the day before, she was reportedly running for a different reason. On Sunday, according to the Boulder Police Department, she raced off after getting into a dispute over a Whole Foods…
In most of our monthly mug shot roundups, dudes far outnumber women — but not in May. This time around, females narrowly take the prize in cases involving everything from a machete robbery at a medical marijuana dispensary to an alleged prostitution scheme run through high-end strip clubs. Look below…
Wouldn’t it be nice to come out the other end of a Memorial Day weekend without having another death to memorialize? Not this year: Sunday evening at Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Park, a conversation between two men ended with one of them shooting the other to death…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the woman stabbed to death at a HIV/AIDS group-living facility on West Wesley Avenue. Laura Emery, 46, was pronounced dead at the scene. Look below for our earlier coverage of this crime…
Victoria Barry, 26, has been formally charged with two counts of vehicular homicide and DUI in relation to a crash on I-25. Lilly Duncan, a 31-year-old Colorado Springs mom, died in the incident, leaving her daughter Dyrah, twelve, without a living parent. Her father died when she was nine…
Former Jefferson High teacher David Rangel was arrested last September after admitting he’d kissed and groped a student — one of two to eventually come forward. Yesterday, he received a sentence of ten-years-to-life of intensive-supervision sex-offender probation plus a six-month work-release sentence, even though one of the students in question…
Update: Earlier this week, a suicidal Kelli Lynn Murphy told police her two children, Liam and Madigan, were in heaven. But those who loved the kids are in a kind of hell right now, as was clear at a gathering last night in Castle Rock’s Founders Park, where hundreds of…
Simon Salinas, a known gangster with a murder beef in his past, was really, really mad at his former girlfriend. Not only did he attack her himself, but after being arrested and jailed, he arranged for the half-sister of his current girlfriend to punch his ex in the face while…
During a recent drive to work, Shane Boor indulged in one of America’s favorite pastimes: He flipped someone the bird. Trouble is, the person he aimed it at was a Colorado State Patrol officer so unamused that he had a fellow trooper track Boor down and give him a criminal…
Irony alert: No charges were filed against Denver Sheriff’s deputies in the jailhouse death of Marvin Booker last year — but deputy Anne Kelly faces two counts for slapping a DUI suspect who suffered no apparent injury in the exchange…
As detailed in last week’s feature on Independent Monitor Richard Rosenthal, Denver is in the midst of a police-misconduct story that won’t go away. Now, as part of its “Race to Justice” police brutality awareness campaign, the ACLU tracked down all city payouts for police-related lawsuits and complaints between 2002…
This week, the FBI issued preliminary 2009-2010 crime stat comparisons for municipalities across the country, including five in Colorado: Boulder, Denver, Lakewood, Pueblo and Thornton. However, Aurora didn’t want to be left out. The city has released the data it shared with the feds, showing that major crimes declined in…
Yes, Twitter is powerful. But did you know it’s also a great crime-fighting tool? Just ask Elaine Ellis, a Boulder-based social-media manager whose plaintive tweet following the theft of her bicycle on Saturday instantly transformed members of the community into high-tech detectives who ultimately got their man — a guy…
Cops say Germaine “Jell-O” Wallace was livin’ large, sharing a $1.3 million mansion with a bevy of beautiful babes and exotic animals like an African wild cat named Goldie. And how did he finance this lifestyle? Allegedly by running a prostitution ring through high-profile Denver strip clubs with the help…
The Ready Room’s name certainly gives off an anything-can-happen vibe — but what went down there early Sunday morning still managed to be unexpected, not to mention terrifying. Someone reportedly opened fire on guests from a wedding reception, striking five of them. And now, the Denver Police Department has put…
Here’s a frightening thought: Around 1,500 drivers who didn’t pass, or didn’t even take, a driving test may have been on Colorado roads for months. That’s the accusation against Dennis Sieving, 53, who’s been indicted by a federal grand jury for male fraud and bribery. And those 1,500 allegedly dubious…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has released the name of the victim and the victimizer in a murder-suicide at a Highlands-area home near 38th and Bryant on Tuesday. Denise Fransua died of a gunshot wound to the chest from Steven Romero, who then fatally shot himself in the head…
This week’s cover story, “The Watcher,” details the role Denver’s Independent Monitor Richard Rosenthal has played in the ongoing controversy involving city law enforcement and alleged police brutality. It’s a scandal that’s made nationwide news and is shaping the mayoral race. How did the hullabaloo come about? Check out a…
Jason McEwan and Michelle White threw a party and an episode of The Jerry Springer Show broke out. That’s according to the Greeley police, who say special guests at the bash included a mistaken sexual advance, brass knuckles, a Samurai sword, a narrow escape and a threatened pit-bull attack…
