The $1 million-plus allegedly swiped from clients by Michael Mendenhall can’t compare to the $71 million allegedly stolen by Ponzi schemer Sean Mueller. But Mueller pleaded guilty to ripping off the likes of John Elway, while Mendenhall is accused of stealing from elderly people of much more modest means…
The Denver Police Department wants Craig Anthony Rodriguez — really wants him. The DPD has asked for the public’s help in tracking down the fugitive, who’s said to be part of an ongoing criminal case and may be armed. Look below to see additional photos and get more details from…
This week, Brenda Stewart was indicted on charges related to tax evasion, racketeering, money laundering and more in relation to Denver Players/Sugar, a notorious escort business. A former escort known to her staff as “Katrina Carter” or simply “Carter,” Stewart potentially faces decades in jail and six-figure fines. It’s a…
On the surface, it seems like a perfect scam. Approach a stopped vehicle, flash a bogus police badge, confiscate the driver’s keys and wallet, then hop into the car and drive off. But what happens if the car won’t start? For Jerry John Gallegos, the answer to that question is…
Last night, Aurora Police report that an adult male was shot to death on the 900 block of South Joliet Street, continuing a very bloody period in metro Denver history. By our count, the homicide is at least the sixth since the beginning of November. Check our Mile High Murder…
When two Austrailian snowboarders robbed a bank in Vail on a whim in 2005, then tipped a cabdriver $20,000 in the midst of a lame and ultimately unsuccessful getaway, the inept heist provided fodder for talk-show monologues for weeks. But the ordeal was no joke for teller Jessica Gunther –…
The phrase “getting caught red-handed” wasn’t invented specifically for David M. Flores, 48, but it certainly seems appropriate to his situation. Following a Highlands Ranch bank robbery, Flores was busted on an aggravated robbery charge after handing a Walmart clerk red-stained bills with red-stained hands — a color presumably caused…
Today, we’ve already published not one but two posts about local homicides — and while a death on the 3000 block of South Hobart Way hasn’t officially received this designation, Denver Police call it suspicious. The Denver coroner’s office describes the victim as a white male, but no ID has…
It’s a been a lethal past several days in the metro area — and the Denver coroner’s office has ID’d Juan Nevarez, forty, as the latest victim. The Denver Police Department is looking for multiple assailants in what’s described as a stabbing in the release below. Also see an interactive…
The Denver coroner’s office has ID’d a man killed in a car on the 500 block of Lowell Boulevard late Tuesday as Aurora’s Ronald B. Sanchez, 45. He died from multiple gunshot wounds. No suspects are in custody and the investigation continues. Look below to read a Denver Police Department…
Update: On October 15, Aurora Police investigating a home robbery tracked down a suspect at the Crestwood Suites on East Evans — and subsequently discovered the body of Michael Pinkus, 51, who owned the home in question. Now, the APD has arrested three men — Steven Bassett, Robert Harper and…
In June, we told you about Christian Hanson, a Greeley gang member suspected of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a woman — and then trying to hire someone to kill her. Last night, a Weld County jury found him guilty on six counts for crimes dating back to December of last…
When a man and a woman are convicted of committing a crime together, the dude typically gets the higher sentence. But not in the case of Alfonzo Portugal and Pamela Tolbert. Yesterday, Portugal was handed twelve years for the robbery and beating of a bartender — but Tolbert had already…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has now released the name of the man killed in an alley behind 36 Clarkson Street over the weekend: Michael E. Wanczyk, 29. The cause of death was a shotgun wound to the chest. Jerry Allen Thompson was arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder in…
Last month, Ron Rocha, a volunteer baseball coach for Regis University, was on the losing end of an intra-squad matchup dubbed the Fall World Series. But he suffered an even greater defeat yesterday, when he was among 35 people named by the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the bust of a…
The Aurora Police Department is guarding details of a death on the 17300 block of East Adriatic Drive late last week. About all the APD has issued to date are basics about victim Juan Gerardo Miranda-Hernandez, 28, and the fact that the case is being investigated as a homicide. Look…
Last December, we shared the startling post “Wake Up: You May Have Just Been Sexually Assaulted by Timothy Layne Martinez.” At the time, Jefferson County officials were reluctant to provide too many details about Martinez, who faced nineteen counts of sexual assault against two women — acts he’d allegedly videotaped…
It was a year ago this Saturday night that Andrew Gelston Graham, a 23-year-old University of Colorado grad who threw a mean Frisbee and loved poetry and music, was killed by a single gunshot wound a short distance from his Arapahoe County home. Family, friends, law enforcement officers and others…
Brooks Kellogg, the 73-year old businessman arrested at Denver International Airport last month for allegedly trying to hire a hit man, pleaded not guilty in Denver federal court earlier today — and reports that undercover agents don’t have a recording of his statements at DIA suggest that he may have…
Back in May, medical marijuana dispensary reviewer William Breathes admitted to having steered clear of The Clinic Alternative Medicine due in part to the stereotype that you can find anything on East Colfax — but he wound up happy he stopped by. Lucky thing his visit didn’t coincide with an…
Durango’s Richard Paul comes across as a helpful and chipper salesman in a just-released cyber-sheaf of court documents. Problem is, he’s accused of selling an array of machine guns and other weaponry to undercover federal officers — and when his Durango home was raided, authorities reportedly discovered grenades and C-4…
Myrl Serra, district attorney for the Western Slope’s 7th Judicial District, was busted in September on charges of unlawful sexual conduct and indecent exposure. Details were withheld at that time — but affidavits pertaining to his arrest have now been unsealed, and they tell a graphic story of inter-office sexual…
