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…
What to get that special someone on Valentine’s Day? Candy and flowers are so played out — so how about a hand grenade? Granted, we don’t know for certain that the grenade found at Colorado Springs’ Memorial Park yesterday morning was intended as a gift. But it was wrapped –…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the man found dead in a house on the 100 block of North Stuart Street as Ronald Ford, 63. “The cause of death is blunt force trauma to the head,” reads an office release. “The manner of death is homicide.” Look below for…
It is an established fact that love makes people act like fools. If the goo-goo eyes and baby talk weren’t enough, fools in love often feel the need to broadcast their idiocy to others. The tools they use and the location of the valentine vandalism reveal much about a valentine…
Update: The Denver Police Department has identified a suspect in the shootout at Dandy Dan’s strip club that killed George Valenzuela-Lopez. He’s Benjamin Lucero, 22. Look below to see two photos of Lucero and a DPD release with more information…
There’s something more than a little creepy about suspects barely beyond childhood accused of distributing child pornography. But that’s what the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office accuses Phillip Abernathy and Connor Greenwall of doing in separate cases. Below, see full size booking photos and a DCSO release with more details…
We don’t usually hear about folks accused of contributing to the delinquency of a minor — and at first blush, the charge against Jacquelyn Perea, who allegedly took a sixteen-year old to a party where alcohol and drugs were being used, and gave her marijuana, doesn’t seem especially newsworthy. But…
This weekend, David Shefte, David Trainer and Kurt Heckle learned you can get ticketed for throwing snowballs in Aspen. Crazy? Maybe — but there were some extenuating circumstances, including the ages of the alleged attackers and the descriptive word they hurled at their victim after he dared to complain…
