During the recession, most businesses specializing in big ticket items have found the going rough. So it’s something of a surprise that Christine Sylvester, a title and billing clerk for Windish RV Center just sentenced to five years in jail, was able to steal almost $1 million between 2007 and…
It’s a story made for TV news: a puppy theft from a Northglenn pet store in which video shows two adults apparently in league with a child, who walks out with a chihuahua in her coat. And the tale’s not done spinning, or wagging. An arrest has been made, but…
Prior to the hit and run that killed Rockstar Lounge valet Jose Medina, the vehicular crime that got the most attention in these parts involved the arrest of Brandon Mondragon for severely injuring Tim Albo and Heather Kornman last October. Now, Mondragon has pleaded guilty to the crime — but…
Brian Hicks, the reputed leader of the Tre Tre Crips gang, has been convicted of soliciting two men to kill a witness named Kalonniann Clark. The 28-year-old Clark was killed on December 6, 2006 — just a week before she was scheduled to testify that Hicks tried to shoot her…
This week’s cover story, “The Devil’s Playground,” presents Scott Howard’s account of enduring rape and extortion by a notorious white supremacist gang in Colorado’s prisons — and then battling the indifference and even alleged cover-ups by the staffers he went to for help. But can he prove it?…
Was Parris Mathis immune to marijuana’s well-known calming effects? You’ve gotta wonder given the police release about his arrest. Seems he got into an argument with a woman for “sitting on the stairwell” (!), and when a man tried to intervene, he allegedly pummeled both of them with a “Native…
Our top forty most memorable mug shots of January includes booking photos of an alleged meth-fueled crime gang, busted Denver Broncos, a Fort Collins teacher found naked with a student in a car, and a guy accused of robbing a Domino’s delivery man of pizza and wings but skipping the…
The latest high-profile cases to pass through the Denver District Attorney’s Office are quite different in terms of their specifics but similar when it comes to shock value. One woman has been accused (again) of prostitution with knowledge she has AIDS, while a teenager was convicted as an adult for…
Last week’s acquittal of Alejandro Perez in the murder of another inmate at the Limon Correctional Facility provides fresh ammo for critics of Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers, whose determination to seek the death penalty for a prison gang homicide has resulted in a six-year debacle of prosecutorial missteps…
The hit and run that killed Rockstar Lounge valet Jose Medina last month was committed by Norma Vera-Nolasko, according to her arrest affidavit, which is on view below. Accompanying it, and also accessible in their entirety, are probable cause statements pertaining to Eliu Montes-Garcia, Yolonda Bastida-Nolasco and Guadalupe Bastida, who…
Courtney Bowles, the Fort Collins teacher who’s been getting unwanted national exposure after being busted naked in a car with a student, was told by a judge to stay away from children in order to qualify for a $50,000 bond. Problem is, she’s got two of her own she’d like…
Timothy Gonzales made news in November 2009 after being found in a guy’s house wearing the owner’s boxer shorts — hahahahahaha! So why the holy hell was he sentenced this week to 28 years in prison? For some very good reasons — including sexually assaulting two teenagers…
Update: Opponents of Senator Kent Lambert’s immigration bills have dismissed them as Arizona-imitating, Latino-alienating and budget-busting. As for proponents of the measures, they’ve now got a rallying cry in the hit-and-run accident that killed Jose Medina near the Rockstar Lounge this past weekend. All four people busted in the incident…
Don’t bite the hand that feeds you, the saying goes. But biting the hand that doesn’t give you beer has drawbacks, too, as Stephen Edward Siebold, age nineteen, is finding out in regard to an incident that’s already crossed the pond thanks to coverage in London’s Daily Mail. Here’s the…
The last thing a parent wants to worry about when sending a child to the dentist is that an assistant will do terribly inappropriate things while the young patient is drugged or defenseless. But that’s one possible interpretation of info released thus far about Roohallah Mobarez, twenty, who’s been arrested…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the woman who died in a shooting near Ninth and Sheridan on Tuesday night: Susan Wiggs, 58. In addition, the Denver Police Department has belatedly issued a press release on the incident, which notes that there was a struggle between residents of the…
On December 30, 2009, Alisha Brown was found murdered in the Sixth Avenue West subdivision. The following February, her ex-husband, Daryll Glenn Brown was arrested for her death. Now, Brown has been convicted and sentenced to life without parole for a crime involving a sneak attack, blunt force and strangulation…
Louis Hampers, the former Children’s Hospital ER doc charged with writing hundreds of phony prescriptions, now has one fewer lawsuit to worry about. Deborah Sherman, a reporter for 9News, has settled her civil lawsuit against Hampers, her lawyer says. The terms are private…
We all know wacky relatives who slip kids sips of booze at parties. But the Denver District Attorney’s Office says eighteen-year-olds Skyler Dematteo and Tyrale Haselrig-Graham crossed the line from playfulness to child abuse on New Year’s Eve, giving a nine-year old so many vodka shots that she had to…
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…
