Shawn Merriman, aka the Mormon Madoff, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in December 2009, earning a twelve-year sentence for Ponzi scheming that allowed him to amass an amazing collection of classic cars and more. This Saturday, Merriman’s playthings go on the block. The photos of items up for bid –…
Today, reputed gang leader Brian Hicks stands trial in Denver for the murder of a witness named Kalonniann Clark. Prosecutors say Hicks ordered the killing while he was in jail on drug charges in 2006 in order to stop Clark from testifying that he’d tried to shoot her a year…
The most common reaction to student-sex-abuse reports about the likes of Travis Masse, Gary Wegner and other men featured in our collection of 2010 accused teachers and caretakers mug shots is revulsion. But when an attractive female teacher is similarly targeted, the response is far different. Which explains why the…
The Boulder County Coroner has come to a conclusion about the October death of ten-month-old Lyon Campos, for which his father, Joaquin Campos, has been arrested. “The cause of death is multiple blunt force injuries,” writes coroner Emma Hall. “The manner of death is homicide.”…
On December 22, a man later identified as 21-year-old Jordan Nelson was killed on the 2900 block of North Pontiac Street while sitting in his car. Less than a month later, on early Saturday morning, Quentin Smith, 21, died in a drive-by shooting a little over four blocks away…
Update:Information is still scarce in a fatal shooting at the Wise Harris Arms apartments on Saturday. Now, however, we know the name of the victim — Marvin Smith, 33 — and the basic circumstances of his death, which became official shortly after he was transported to Denver Health with a…
As a state lobbyist, Ronald Dean Smith is a familiar figure in Colorado politics — which only makes the charges against him more bizarre. He’s accused of burglary and more for actions described in an arrest warrant on view below, including allegedly leaving raw chicken in the vents of his…
Yes, it’s only January. But there’s already a frontrunner in the Headline of the Year contest: 9News’ “Police search for Moron.” That’s Joseph Moron, who the Aurora Police want on a pair of felony warrants. The post certainly suggests that he’s earned his name — and the APD confirms the…
When members of the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force dubbed a local bank robber the JV Bandit, they had no idea how appropriate the nickname would turn out to be. Trent Hix, the man now accused of being the crook in question, may be 38-years old, but he reportedly…
Update: On January 11, acclaimed CU Buffs linebacker Michael Sipili was arrested on sex assault charges, as documented in a post on view in its entirety below. Now, a second CU former CU linebacker, Michael O’Connor, has been arrested in the case — reportedly for letting Sipili join in a…
Ronald Eugene Beach, 63, has been sentenced to twenty years in federal prison for sexual abuse of minors, and the stipulated facts included in his plea agreement on view below certainly present a strong, and disturbing, case for the sentence’s length. The targets? His own granddaughters, who he victimized at…
Update: As noted in our original item about the death of Maria Duron and Art Medina, on view below, all signs pointed to a murder-suicide in the case — and that proved to be the case, according to the Arapahoe County coroner. But the details are still shocking. The coroner…
George Lindeboom, 67, was the first victim of a homicide in Brighton since 2008, and there have already been two arrests in the case: Evan Lawlor and Ryker Schlitt. But even though the crime took place last week, Brighton Police Department spokesman John Bradley says no mug shots of the…
No, Jefferson High School cafeteria manager Michelle Whitmire isn’t accused of serving up marijuana on a plate alongside Mystery Meat and Surprise Stew. But an arrest affidavit on view below in its entirety accuses the 51-year old of giving weed to children as young as elementary schoolers…
More than a decade before the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, Boulder’s most notorious unsolved murder was the 1983 slaying of Sid Wells, a handsome CU student who’d been dating actor Robert Redford’s daughter, Shauna. Now, more than 27 years later, an arrest warrant on view below has been issued for…
Shannon Johnson, 34, is due in court this morning in a case that’s both incredibly tragic and a sign of the times. In an arrest affidavit on view below in its entirety, Johnson tells police that she was fooling around on Facebook while her one-year-old child was drowning in a…
Update: Given the information contained in the arrest affidavit for Theodore Madrid, it’s no surprise that he’s now been charged with first-degree murder in the death of two-year-old Caden Rodgers. According to the document, Madrid was well over the legal limit for drunkenness behind the wheel — .177 blood alcohol…
Gruesome video footage taken at a Colorado federal penitentiary of two inmates taunting guards and mutilating the corpse of their cellmate won’t be released to the news media any time soon — even though the videos were shown in open court to two juries in a failed effort to obtain…
Meth makes people do some desperate things — like, according to a grand jury indictment aimed at Tiffany Nicole Weaver and seven others, steal vehicles from seventy different victims. Of the 103 counts, Weaver is named in 83 of them. Page down below to see mug shots of the suspects…
Yes, Oxycontin is expensive, and getting a prescription for it isn’t easy — but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to tell a pharmacist you’ve got a weapon and swipe as much of it as possible. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, a thief recently did just that. Look below…
The Lakewood Police Department has issued the booking photo of David Thomas Orton, who is accused of precipitating a SWAT team standoff that stretched from Friday night into Saturday morning. The charges against him include attempted murder. Below, get details from an LPD release, and see a larger version of…
Only days after I posted a few remarks about Bill Ritter’s play-it-safe approach to pardons and his reluctance to commute excessive sentences, the departing governor delivered a slew of bolder pardons and even a few commutations, stunning some grateful convicts and raising hackles elsewhere. Ritter won’t have to worry about…
