Two days before Christmas, Christopher Blackstone of Colorado Springs got into an argument with his girlfriend, Talitha Peterson-Hooks. She ignored his subsequent calls and texts, and, according to the police report, that’s when Blackstone turned to Peterson-Hooks’s three-to-five-month-old puppy and stomped on its head repeatedly…
Police have declared that a thirty-year-old man was specifically targeted for murder, despite no obvious external trauma. The man was found inside the house. “In this case, we’re looking to the coroner’s office to tell us the cause of death,” says Detective John White…
The Denver Police Department is releasing a series of action-filled videos demonstrating the work of a police officer. The first one came out today and features a foot chase after a would-be bank robber near Curtis Park. It’s got it all: voiceover, dramatic orchestration, slo-mo and, of course, a perp…
The Colorado Division of Wildlife is offering $1,000 for information leading to the citation or arrest of a bighorn sheep poacher in Poudre Canyon. The department is not releasing any specifics about the sheep-slaying, but they will say it happened before Thanksgiving somewhere in the Canyon west of Fort Collins…
A little after 8 p.m. last night, Jason Ross of St. Louis drove his roughly 35 ton semi truck onto I-70 in eastern Colorado heading in the wrong direction. He may have been drunk and he definitely didn’t have his headlights on. Near the exit for Cedar Point, Colorado, he…
In their last days in office, some governors have been known to make bold moves in the criminal justice arena, denouncing ruinous policies and commuting long sentences as a way of highlighting unfair biases in the system. As demonstrated by the modest set of pardons he doled out last week,…
A man in his 20s is dead after being shot while in a car this morning in the 2900 block of North Pontiac Street in northeast Denver. Denver Police responded to a report of a shooting at 9:58 a.m. at 2915 North Pontiac, to find a black male in his…
An employee of the Monaco Grocery on East Colfax is dead after being shot last night during an attempted robbery…
Officers with the Denver Police Department found a man dead in a home in the 5100 block of West Gill Place a little before 7 p.m. last night. The man, whose name has not been replaced, was dead from a gunshot wound. Police are not saying where the man was…
If Phillip Ray Greaves II was looking for a life of uneventful obscurity, the 47-year-old Pueblo author wouldn’t have self-published The Pedophile’s Guide to Love and Pleasure: A Child-lover’s Code of Conduct, which was banned from Amazon amid threats of boycotts of the site and just got him arrested on…
Update: There’s been another arrest in the horrific slaying of Alicia Martinez, whose corpse was dismembered and abused after she was shot to death in October. Francesca Pagliasotti has been charged with helping accused killer Edward Thomas Romero cover up this gruesome crime. Below, find the latest from the Denver…
Talk about a nightmare scenario for the Aurora Police Department. Not only has one of their own, Sergeant Morgan Sellman, been busted for child pornography, but his most recent assignment has been as the DARE program coordinator. Fortunately, Sellman’s DARE duties haven’t included regular visits to the classroom since 2001…
Over the past few weeks, we’ve shared the top 2010 mug shots of women, arrestees with face-and-neck tattoos and bad hair, plus busted teachers and caretakers, as well as celebrities and notables. But today, we offer the whole lollapalooza — our monster batch of the 120 most memorable mug shots…
Update: Last week, we told you about a Stapleton area hit-and-run in which a pregnant woman struck by a still-unknown driver was critically injured. The woman, Laurie Gorham, lost her baby, who was almost full-term, but she’s beginning to physically mend — and her family hopes she’ll be home from…
If you’re going to be part of a criminal enterprise, make sure it has a cool name — like Paper Cha$ers Ink, an alleged group of identity thieves and counterfeiters. The Colorado Springs Police Department has rounded up eight suspects, with three more to go. Check out their photos below…
Yesterday, the Denver Police Department went to the 4800 block of North Enid Way, where they discovered a man who subsequently died of a gunshot wound. The victim hasn’t been ID’d yet, but the DPD has reportedly arrested his housemate, William Bentley, 59, on investigation of first-degree murder. Below, find…
We’ve been sharing memorable 2010 mug shots lately — and James Leyva’s certainly qualifies. Last December, we told you about an attempt to rob the Healthy Choice Wellness Center, an MMJ dispensary whose employees turned the tables on the stick-up artists, as Leyva’s booking photo demonstrates. And now, he faces…
We’re almost ready to unveil our top mug shots of 2010, after sharing galleries of women, tattoos, bad hair and accused teachers and caretakers. But as one last tease, check out booking photos of the famous and infamous that appeared here this year. Some you’ll immediately recognize. Others — like…
A short time ago, 9News reports, Betsy Long, who was accused of causing a July crash that killed Mary Warren, a young CSU grad bound for the Peace Corps, pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide, vehicular assault, leaving the scene of an accident and DUI. Regarding the last charge, Long registered…
Update: Shaun Harper, who allegedly robbed a bank in Golden on Saturday only to be nabbed after suspected loot literally fell out of his pocket in front of police, has been released from an area hospital; he had unspecified medical issues that were reportedly unrelated to his arrest. He’s been…
Today’s most memorable mug shots of 2010 feature (following posts on women, tattoos and bad hair) focuses on teachers and caretakers who’ve been accused of doing some mighty unpleasant things. Look below to see our top six — and click on their names to read our original posts…
As if we haven’t received enough bad news about the Denver Broncos lately, here’s a lousy development of an entirely different (and much more serious) kind: Cornerback Perrish Cox has been arrested in Lone Tree on a sexual assault charge dating back to an incident in October. At this point,…
