The wee hours of Sunday morning were more active than usual on the 1000 block of Cypress Drive in Fort Collins. A report about one neighbor threatening another with a firearm led to a three-hour standoff that ended with the deployment of “gas munitions” and charges against Joshua and Devin…
A petition has been filed in juvenile court regarding a 12-year-old from Burlington suspected of killing his parents, Charles and Marilyn Long, and wounding two siblings. But prosecutor Robert Watson still hasn’t decided whether to ask for a transfer to adult court. If he does, there’s a strong possibility the…
Charles Ponzi may be dead and buried, but his infamous scheme continues to inspire sharpies across the globe — like, for instance, John Reinholdt II, who was just sentenced to sixteen years behind bars, and ordered to pay $2.5 million restitution in a complex, long-running fraud involving, among other things,…
Update: Christopher Wells, Micah Woody, Josiah Sher and Matthew Plake — the quartet accused in the murders of Robert “Bob” Rafferty and Amara Wells, Christopher’s ex — made first court appearances yesterday. Among the charges Wells faces: first-degree murder, criminal solicitation and conspiracy…
Update: We already knew that killing involving Adam Raszynski and his mom, Rita Redford, was bizarre. But the charging of Raszynski, who’s facing a second-degree murder beef even though Redford shot him before he stomped her to death, and the release of an arrest affidavit on view below, proves that…
Late last month, a seventeen-year-old student at John F. Kennedy High School was arrested in connection with an alleged sexual assault against a fellow JFK attendee, age fourteen. During lunch. In the school’s basement. Look below to see a Denver District Attorney’s Office release on the incident, plus a 9News…
Update: The victim in this week’s slaying at the Rocky Mountain Motel on West Colfax in Lakewood has been ID’d as Danysha Turnbough, age 31. Raymond Marcus Sandoval remains in custody in relation to this crime. Look below to see the latest Lakewood Police Department release, followed by our previous…
It’s as if the planets suddenly came into alignment — but in a truly disgusting way. Yes, friends, we bring you two, count ’em, two thoroughly repulsive stories with Colorado connections involving jails and shit. Paul Kausalik and Abram Boise, come on down!…
A prostitute with AIDS who’s still turning tricks, a group of party-goers who allegedly doused a fellow attendee with lighter fluid and set him ablaze, a Sunflower clerk who may have mixed yogurt with semen, and the Sunflower CEO, suspected of felony child prostitution: They’re just some of the folks…
Herbert Dailey, a registered sex offender, might not have been busted for suspicion of a home-invasion sexual assault earlier this month if he’d been a better bike rider. According to the Fort Collins Police Department, Dailey was stopped by cops after a “bicycle violation,” at which point officers noticed that…
Update: Christopher Wells may have been in custody at the time the bodies of his ex-wife, Amara Wells, and Robert Rafferty were discovered — but the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office still believes he played a key role in their deaths. Along with Josiah Sher, Matthew Plake and Micah Woody, he’s…
The website of SouthSide Johnny’s in Colorado Springs declares, “It’s better to eat at a great bar than drink at a restaurant.” But brawls are best avoided anywhere — and one broke out at the venue during Sunday’s wee hours. The result of confrontations between two groups? Three stabbings, one…
Update: William Rex Fowler, whose software firm faced ruin in part because he donated around $200,000 to the Church of Scientology, argued that he had been about to kill himself when his partner, Thomas Ciancio, interrupted him — and wound up with multiple gunshots to the head. But a jury…
A lot of us have suffered through rough starts to Valentine’s Day over the years — but an unnamed juvenile’s experiences early on February 14 puts bad romance in perspective. Erick Perez, twenty, and seven others, many of them teenagers, face a potpourri of charges related to allegedly setting the…
Did Tracy Lee Ottaway receive the justice he deserved? You be the judge. Ottaway pleaded guilty to two counts of menacing with a deadly weapon after yelling “fucking Arab” at a valet and trying to run him down with his Cadillac Escalade. But Ottaway has been sentenced to probation –…
Abuse meted out against a ten-year old back in September was so horrific that people are still being charged in the case. The latest? Mario McDonald, the boy’s father. McDonald’s not accused of physically harming the boy personally. Rather, he’s said to have allowed the child’s grandmother, Edna Iddings, to…
Operation Fortune Cookie, a 2008 raid that netted 24,000 marijuana plants, was the largest weed bust in Colorado history — but it imploded among suspicions of police snitches, paid-off politicians and a secret DEA investigation. Now a court filing quoting from that investigation alleges the prime suspect for tipping off…
Betsy Long, the former green-biz entrepreneur who blew a .252 blood alcohol content following a crash that killed Mary Warren, a young woman bound for the Peace Corps, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide and more in December. But accepting responsibility didn’t result in a small sentence. She’s been handed fifteen…
The longer our current economic downturn lasts, the longer buildings sit vacant — and that can be dangerous. Case in point: an attack that took place earlier this month behind a shuttered Albertsons at 3125 South Sheridan Boulevard. The Denver Police Department has released a disturbing sketch of the suspected…
Update: An arrest has been made in the Trison Mitta homicide at the Sports Station Bar & Grill in Aurora late last month. The suspect, Donnell Littleton, made it easy on the Aurora Police Department. Rather than waiting for officers to chase him down, he surrendered to authorities. Get details…
Initial reports about the arrest of Michelle Aleman in an attack on her sister, Bernadette Deleon, referred only to a stabbing. Days later, Fort Collins authorities are releasing more information about the incident, for which Jeremy Velasquez was also busted, including the implement used to seriously wound Deleon — a…
It’s an indication of just how dangerous authorities consider Marc Patrick O’Leary, 32, that he’s being held on a $5 million bond. That’s a $5 million cash bond. And while he’s been charged with sex assault, kidnapping and more in two incidents, the cops fear he may have left more…
