No doubt there are many fine youth pastors and church volunteers in Colorado Springs — ones who aren’t creepy molesters looking for a chance to diddle underage victims. But Charles Jenkins is the third person with such a job on his résumé to be either arrested or convicted for sexual…
Last October, 73-year-old Brooks Kellogg, a businessman with roots in Colorado, Kansas and Illinois, was arrested at Denver International Airport after allegedly meeting with what he thought was a hit man to arrange the murder of Stephen Bunyard, who’d won big bucks in one lawsuit against Kellogg and had launched…
Can a suicide attempt be a parole violation? Yes, if the person hoping to kill himself has been ordered to stay away from drugs and he tries to overdose. That’s the accusation against Eric Kinder, 43, whose alleged death wish follows a conviction over a police standoff prompted by a…
At a preliminary hearing yesterday, defense attorneys argued that Kevin McGregor shot University of New Hampshire football player Todd Walker last month in what amounts to a tragic accident. But prosecutors say McGregor killed Walker in a botched robbery attempt — and then immediately afterward bought tacos and cigars…
Update: At 2 p.m. this afternoon, Earl Albert Moore is scheduled to appear in U.S. District Court in Denver to be advised of the charges against him in relation to an attempted bombing at Southwest Plaza mall on the twelfth anniversary of the shootings at nearby Columbine High School. However,…
Update: The search for Melvin “Catfish” Nelson, wanted for shooting 72-year-old Charlene Clay three times in the face (somehow, she survived), ended at a motel at I-25 and 38th. That’s where Nelson’s body was found. He apparently killed himself…
Barring a last-minute deal, attorneys will be picking a jury Monday morning in Denver District Court to decide the fate of Keenu Tiyme — more than two-and-a-half years after the body piercer was arrested and charged with the gruesome death of his ex-wife, 39-year-old tattoo artist Kauri Tiyme, in what…
Jesse Hodgson, a former firefighter for Mountain View Fire Rescue in Longmont, will have to register as a sex offender. The 37-year-old has pleaded guilty to instructing his 11-year-old stepdaughter to wear an adult diaper as punishment. Authorities say he also asked her to watch him urinate in his own…
There are two versions of Christian Laswell’s story, his lawyer said in court this morning. In one version, the 29-year-old seen here is a pimp of several women, including a seventeen-year-old girl and his sister, nineteen-year-old Theresa Laswell. In another version offered by his lawyer, he’s a college student who…
As the Crystal fire in Larimer County was finally winding down last week, authorities announced their suspicion that it was human-caused — and now they think they’ve got the human who did it: Thomas Howie, 36. Meanwhile, Douglas County officials believe a fifteen-year old started numerous blazes in the Pinery…
When it comes to pimping, the Denver District Attorney’s Office believes Theresa and Christian Laswell kept it in the family. Last month, Christian was charged with child prostitution and more in regard to allegedly whoring out a seventeen-year-old. Now, Theresa, his sister and supposed “bottom bitch,” is faced with pretty…
Update: Marcelo Ochoa-Sanchez has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his wife, Karen Escobar — and no wonder. According to police, Ochoa-Sanchez stabbed Escobar in the street in clear view of numerous witnesses — then went back to his apartment, grabbed another knife and returned with the…
Update: Noel Alexander Bertrand, a marine from Portland, Oregon, has now been formally charged with sexual assault in the shocking attack on a woman after midnight in a nearly deserted Denver International Airport concourse last week. Meanwhile, new security footage and information from a police report sheds new light on…
The story of Shannon Johnson, accused of letting her infant son drown while she played a Facebook game, has been reported in such far-flung locations as Australia and China because her act was such a crime of the times. And she’ll have lots of opportunities to mull it over: She’s…
The alleged conspiracy that led to the Keene Ranch murders of Amara Wells and Robert Rafferty Jr. has just grown larger. Already arrested were Christopher Wells, Amara’s ex, plus a trio of his co-workers from a Colorado Springs car dealership. Now, Krystal Kurcz and Megan Cassidy have been busted on…
Update: In our last post about the murder of Gerald Schwartzman, 73, on view below, we pointed out that we didn’t know much about the victim other than the most basic information. We now have a much better-rounded view thanks to a heartfelt statement released by his family — and…
Update: Earlier, we noted that William Lornes, 24, was being held for car theft but wondered if accusations related to a Cherry Creek Shopping Center kidnapping were on the way. Instead, such charges have been preceded by a first-degree murder beef linked to the homicide of Gerald Schwartzman, 73, whose…
Update: For months, there were no breakthroughs in the investigation into the November murder of Terence Scott George and disappearance of Tiffany Durst — but it now looks as if a lot of progress was being made behind the scenes. Less than a week after the April 7 discovery of…
Sounds like the set-up for a joke: A couple dressed more or less as ninjas, and carrying machetes, walk into a medical marijuana dispensary. What do they want? Weed! Trevor Morris and Ashley Bradford probably don’t find this punchline to be especially funny, though, given that they’ve been arrested for…
Kyle Kvasnicka, thirty, served four years as an assistant for the Concordia University Irvine volleyball squad before working his way up to head coach. In his second year at the helm, he was ready to put his own mark on the program. But now, the school has stripped him from…
As we reported yesterday, Manager of Safety Charley Garcia has sacked Denver cops Ricky Nixon and Kevin Devine over allegedly billy-clubbing women to the ground and macing one of them in a July 2009 incident at the Denver Diner. Now it’s been confirmed that one of the cops, Ricky Nixon,…
Eric Caverly, 37, was a youth group volunteer with a Colorado Springs church — and we’re using the past tense in this sentence because he’s presumably been cut loose following his arrest on suspicion of sexual assault on a child. The victim in question? A young woman who was sixteen…
