DARE officers are charged with going into classrooms and telling kids that they should stay off drugs. But Michael Mangino probably should have added that they should stay off cops, too. He’s been accused of several sex crimes in relation to an allegedly inappropriate relationship with a fifteen-year-old runaway. And…
Graffiti can be artistically fascinating or it can be simple vandalism. This is a post about the second kind. At least 33 different spots in the Spruce Mountain Open Space area have been tagged by folks with a skill mainly for despoiling nature. And the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is…
Update: Still no arrests in the quintuple shooting at the Windsor Court Apartments, 900 South Quince, last week. But while the two main suspects remain mysterious, we now know the names of the two people who didn’t survive their wounds. According to a report from the Denver coroner’s office, they…
Update: Last week, two people were found in a car parked on a Westminster street: one dead, one wounded. Now, the Westminster Police Department has shared its view about how they got that way — a failed murder-suicide, with Christopher Thomas Mainock, 22, wielding the weapon…
DNA may not be forever, but it can survive long enough to prompt charges for years-old crimes — like, for instance, the one that just gob-smacked Steven Lee Hill. He’s now been accused of sexually assaulting a 59-year-old woman along an East Mississippi bike path back in 2007 — a…
Update: We continue to learn more about the string of serious crimes in Aurora — not just the officer-involved shooting that left Oleg Gidenko dead, but also separate hostage dramas. The first ended with the death of a man recently ID’d by Aurora Police as Aaron Williams, twenty. In the…
As recounted in the April story “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Tell,” Alan Sudduth has spent more than half his 31 years behind bars for the 1995 killing of Denver cab driver Finley Bradshaw Myers, even though somebody else — a friend named Nicholas Reed — has confessed to the murder…
Update: Kevin McGregor has now been charged with first-degree murder in relation to the shooting of University of New Hampshire football player Todd Walker this past Friday — and the case is on a very fast track, with a preliminary hearing slated for April 25. In the meantime, the tragic…
The Colorado Organized Crime Control Act (COCCA) hadn’t been used in Weld County for a gang-related case until last week, when five men were indicted by a grand jury on a multitude of charges, including assault, witness intimidation and racketeering. As a bonus, all of them, as well as many…
After twelve years of investigations, exposés, books, videos and Michael-Moore-sized pontifications, what more is there to say about the 1999 Columbine shootings? Plenty, according to the makers of Thirteen Families, a new documentary set to premiere in Denver on April 18, which focuses on the victims’ families and their struggles…
Update: Last month, the bodies of former restaurant co-owners Ronald Ford and Ramiro Sanchez were found in their Stuart Street home. Weeks later, the Denver Police Department announced their interest in finding someone thought to be a roommate of the pair — a previously homeless cross-dresser known by the memorable…
It’s simple math: Being struck by two cars is twice as bad as getting hit by one. That’s what happened to a man in Lakewood Saturday night — and while one driver, ID’d as Martin Parras, stopped (and is being investigated for DUI and vehicular assault), the other’s still at…
Update: The Denver District Attorney’s Office has announced charges in two very different but equally serious crimes. Dominique Redwood is accused of sexually assaulting a woman at knifepoint in a light-rail station elevator, while Jesse Rincon faces a hit-and-run count for allegedly injuring a boy. Page down for details from…
The website for Green Garden Spa in Edgewater promises “Total Satisfaction” — and the U.S. Attorney’s Office believes that pledge extended to happy endings. Michelle Schramm, 55, surrendered to authorities following a grand jury indictment accusing her of using Green Garden and two other spas as houses of prostitution. Among…
Grief alters people. It can devastate and give a new sense of purpose. The murder of his son Daniel in the Columbine shootings has set Tom Mauser on a crusade against gun violence that, over twelve years, has yielded small victories and gradual change — and plenty of blowback from…
In late 2009, United pilot Erwin Washington was arrested for flying drunk — and if this seemed like an isolated incident then, it doesn’t now. That’s because United Express’ Aaron Cope has just been indicted for doing likewise a month after Washington…
A word to those who use the Newton Middle School running track: Go as fast as you can — or otherwise, you might get an eyeful of an indecent exposure suspect who’s reportedly been hanging out there, as well as at several other nearby parks. In this case, speed may…
Update: Sex offender Dennis Hasty can’t face charges for the murder of Limon police officer Jay Sheridan, having killed himself prior to being captured. However, his common-law wife, Jackie Hasty, is looking at two counts in relation to the crime, including manslaughter…
Update: Still no release from the Denver Police Department about the shooting on the 2800 block of West Vassar early Saturday morning. However, the Denver coroner’s office has identified the victim in the incident as Jacob Lauver, 21. At this point, the official cause of death is pending an autopsy…
Update: We still don’t know the specifics about what happened in the murders of Charles and Marilyn Long, and the severe wounding of two of their children, allegedly by their twelve-year-old son — nor do we know whether he’ll be accused as an adult. But with the release of charging…
Update: It would be an exaggeration to say that accused public masturbator and groper Gage Walker Lopez was caught red-handed. Instead, according to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, an anonymous bust led to his arrest on charges of unlawful sexual contact and second-degree burglary. Look below to see the JCSO…
Back on February 7, we told you about the death of Camille Jackson, a 21-year-old whose body was found in an Aurora apartment. Her baby was there, too, and still alive. At the time, the Aurora Police Department described the case as “suspicious.” Just over a month later, the APD…
