In a hit-and-run accident, a driver causes a crash but flees the scene rather than facing the music. Something similar happened over the weekend, but it didn’t involve cars. Instead, the parties were a woman on horseback and the owner of a dog that caused an injury requiring a rescue…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has just identified the man shot to death early Sunday morning, allegedly by someone in a car that drove past the scene of a house-party-related fight on the 300 block of South Yates Street. The victim: James Sanchez, 24. The cause of death was a…
Update:The Denver coroner’s office has now identified the victim of a Memorial Weekend homicide at Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Park. Richard Eugene McDaniel, a forty-year-old African American, died of multiple gunshot wounds. Look below to see our original coverage, featuring more details and a graphic of the area near the…
We traditionally think of pirates jonesing for barrels of rum — but not one plunderer in Colorado Springs. This man, adorned in a black wig, a black beard and mustache, and an eye patch, apparently prefers prescription drugs. Which is why he sailed straight to Walgreens…
Alex Tinsley was once a popular teacher at Longmont High School, overseeing classes in Japanese and German and serving as the “sensei” of a karate club — until police charged him with putting inappropriate holds on one of his students — accusations he’s now admitted. Because he’s pleaded guilty to…
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…
