Skip to content
advertisement
  • facebook
  • x
  • instagram
  • tiktok
  • bsky
  • threads
Site Logo
Support Us
User Menu
  • Sign Up/Sign In
  • Contribute
  • Contact Us
Search
Close Search Close Search
  • News
    • Activism
    • Business
    • Police & Law Enforcement
    • Development
    • Education
    • Immigration
    • Politics & Government
    • Sports
    • Transportation
  • Cannabis
    • Psychedelics
    • Weedmaps-Sponsored
  • Opinion
    • Calhoun: Wake-up Call
    • Community Voice
    • Editorial Voice
    • Reader Response
  • Food & Drink
    • Bars & Breweries
    • Global Cuisine
    • Openings & Closings
    • Recommended
    • Restaurants
    • Shops & Markets
    • Top 50 Bars
    • Top 50 Restaurants
  • Arts & Culture
    • Books
    • Denver Life
    • Film, TV & Streaming
    • In the Mountains
    • Outdoors & Rec
    • Performing Arts
    • Sex & Dating
    • Visual Arts
  • Music
    • Concert Calendar
    • Concert Previews
    • Concert Reviews
    • Critic’s Notebook
    • Features
    • Local Music
    • Red Rocks
    • Touring Artists
    • Venues
  • Things To Do
    • Calendar
    • Concert Calendar
    • Events Coverage
    • Free & Cheap
    • Lists
    • Submit an Event
  • Best of Denver
    • Arts & Entertainment
    • Cannabis & More
    • Food & Drink
    • Music & Venues
    • Shopping & Services
    • Sports & Recreation
    • Readers’ Choice
  • Newsletters
  • More
    • About Us
    • Weekly WTF
    • Advertise with Us
    • Contact Us
    • Flipbook Archive
    • Membership
    • Our Staff
    • Promotions & Free Stuff
    • Tell Your Story-Sponsored
    • Travel Westword

: A dozen free things to do in Denver this weekend, including celebrating Juneteenth

  • News
    • Activism
    • Business
    • Police & Law Enforcement
    • Development
    • Education
    • Immigration
    • Politics & Government
    • Sports
    • Transportation
  • Cannabis
    • Psychedelics
    • Weedmaps-Sponsored
  • Opinion
    • Calhoun: Wake-up Call
    • Community Voice
    • Editorial Voice
    • Reader Response
  • Food & Drink
    • Bars & Breweries
    • Global Cuisine
    • Openings & Closings
    • Recommended
    • Restaurants
    • Shops & Markets
    • Top 50 Bars
    • Top 50 Restaurants
  • Arts & Culture
    • Books
    • Denver Life
    • Film, TV & Streaming
    • In the Mountains
    • Outdoors & Rec
    • Performing Arts
    • Sex & Dating
    • Visual Arts
  • Music
    • Concert Calendar
    • Concert Previews
    • Concert Reviews
    • Critic’s Notebook
    • Features
    • Local Music
    • Red Rocks
    • Touring Artists
    • Venues
  • Things To Do
    • Calendar
    • Concert Calendar
    • Events Coverage
    • Free & Cheap
    • Lists
    • Submit an Event
  • Best of Denver
    • Arts & Entertainment
    • Cannabis & More
    • Food & Drink
    • Music & Venues
    • Shopping & Services
    • Sports & Recreation
    • Readers’ Choice
  • Newsletters
  • More
    • About Us
    • Weekly WTF
    • Advertise with Us
    • Contact Us
    • Flipbook Archive
    • Membership
    • Our Staff
    • Promotions & Free Stuff
    • Tell Your Story-Sponsored
    • Travel Westword
  • facebook
  • x
  • instagram
  • tiktok
  • bsky
  • threads

Police & Law Enforcement

Showing 4665 - 4686 of 5710
Placeholder Image

Homicide by shot to the chest on 900 block of South Joliet Street in Aurora (No. 35)

By Michael RobertsNovember 16, 2010

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…

Placeholder Image

Anthony Prince: “Dumb and Dumber” bandit’s book angers Vail teller

By Alan PrendergastNovember 15, 2010

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 –…

Placeholder Image

David M. Flores caught red-handed, allegedly uses dyed bills from Highlands Ranch bank job

By Michael RobertsNovember 15, 2010

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…

advertisement
advertisement
advertisement
Placeholder Image

Death of white male on 3000 block of South Hobart Way suspicious, investigation underway

By Michael RobertsNovember 12, 2010

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…

Placeholder Image

Juan Nevarez identified as homicide victim in stabbing on E. 50th Avenue (No. 34)

By Michael RobertsNovember 12, 2010

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…

Placeholder Image

Ronald Sanchez identified as man shot to death in car on Lowell Boulevard (No. 33)

By Michael RobertsNovember 12, 2010

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…

advertisement
Placeholder Image

Michael Pinkus murder: See mug shots, get details about 3 men busted in his killing (26)

By Michael RobertsNovember 11, 2010

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…

Placeholder Image

Christian Hanson: Greeley gang member guilty of kidnapping, sex assault, hiring hit man

By Michael RobertsNovember 10, 2010

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…

Placeholder Image

Pamela Tolbert urinates on herself while robbing bartender, beating him with pool cue

By Michael RobertsNovember 10, 2010

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…

advertisement
Placeholder Image

Jerry Allen Thompson arrested on suspicion of Michael Wanczyk Clarkson alley shooting (32)

By Michael RobertsNovember 9, 2010

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…

Placeholder Image

Ron Rocha, Regis coach, part of 20-kilos-a-week cocaine-ring bust: See mug shots & drug photos

By Michael RobertsNovember 9, 2010

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…

Placeholder Image

Juan Gerardo Miranda-Hernandez: Death in Aurora apartment investigated as homicide (31)

By Michael RobertsNovember 8, 2010

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…

advertisement
Placeholder Image

Timothy Layne Martinez gets 32 years for sex assault on two sleeping women he videotaped

By Michael RobertsNovember 8, 2010

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…

Placeholder Image

Andrew Gelston Graham: A walk to remember CU grad in unsolved homicide

By Alan PrendergastNovember 5, 2010

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…

Placeholder Image

Brooks Kellogg, 73, pleads not guilty to trying to hire a hit man over real estate lawsuit

By Michael RobertsNovember 5, 2010

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…

advertisement
Placeholder Image

Myles Stephens booked for armed robbery at medical marijuana center, 2nd suspect at large

By Michael RobertsNovember 5, 2010

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…

Placeholder Image

Richard Paul: Grenades, C-4 at Durango man’s home seized as part of Vegas gun-running bust

By Michael RobertsNovember 5, 2010

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…

Placeholder Image

Myrl Serra: Western Slope DA’s affidavits tell tales of penis exposure, in-office masturbation

By Michael RobertsNovember 5, 2010

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…

advertisement
Placeholder Image

Angie Zapata: Local filmmaker capturing life of transgender teen in doc Photos of Angie

By Melanie AsmarNovember 4, 2010

Photos of Angie, a documentary about the life and death of transgender Greeley teen Angie Zapata, is one step closer to being finished. Alan Dominguez of Loco Lane Films has now added a score performed by Denver School of the Arts grad Mackenzie Gault of the Flobots. Check out the…

Placeholder Image

Adam J. Ponce, aka Oso: Manhunt underway for suspect in early Halloween Club Arriba shooting

By Michael RobertsNovember 4, 2010

During the early hours of Halloween, a security guard at Lakewood’s Club Arriba tried to break up a fight — and got shot for his trouble. Two people were busted at the scene, but the alleged shooter got away. Now, Lakewood police have identified him as Adam J. Ponce, aka…

Placeholder Image

Marcus Leyba found guilty of lethal child abuse: Back of daughter’s head felt like “mush”

By Michael RobertsNovember 4, 2010

Last Thanksgiving, Marcus Leyba was booked on investigation of child abuse resulting in the death of his three-month-old daughter. This week, he was found guilty of that charge, as well as first-degree murder, in relation to the crime — an especially horrific one as indicated by the information released by…

advertisement
Placeholder Image

Robert L. Johnson: Bomb scare turns bizarre when body of 80-year-old found in trunk (30)

By Michael RobertsNovember 3, 2010

Update: The strange story of Robert L. Johnson keeps getting stranger. We knew that after showing up at the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office on a warrant, he prompted a bomb scare before ACSO representatives discovered a dead eighty-something man in the trunk of his Dodge sedan. Now comes word that…

  • Previous
  • 1
  • …
  • 212
  • 213
  • 214
  • …
  • 260
  • Next
Site Logo

View This Week's Print Issue

Where To Find Westword In Print

Editorial

  • News
  • Food & Drink
  • Arts & Culture
  • Music
  • Things To Do
  • Newsletters

Marketing

  • Promotions & Free Stuff
  • Advertise with Us
  • Classifieds
  • Terms of Use
  • Privacy Policy

More

  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Staff
  • Westword Careers
  • Flipbook Archive
  • Shop Cover Art
  • Membership

Voice Media Group

  • Dallas Observer
  • New Times Broward-Palm Beach
  • Miami New Times
  • Phoenix New Times
  • V Digital Services
  • facebook
  • x
  • instagram
  • tiktok
  • bsky
  • threads
PrivacyTermsCookiesAccessibilityAIYour Privacy Rights

Use of this website constitutes acceptance of our policies linked above. Westword may earn a portion of sales from products & services purchased through links on our site from our affiliate partners. ©2026 Denver Westword, LLC. All rights reserved.
Do Not Sell or Share My Information

Privacy Policy

Stay in the Know

Sign up for the latest news, free stuff and more!

Notice of Collection | Terms | Privacy

Welcome!
You are now a Westword Insider, thank you!