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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
You’re right, America: Times are tough. Which likely has something to do with the latest rash of bank robberies along the Front Range. We’ve learned about three — count ’em, three — recent heists: one in Fort Collins, two on South Buckley road in Aurora. Page down below to get…
Last month, we told you about Sean Mueller’s alleged Ponzi scheme, which reportedly netted $71 million from 65 investors. Included among them: Hall of Fame quarterback John Elway, whose $15 million loss may have pushed Mueller toward a suicide attempt. Today, Mueller pleaded guilty to multiple counts and faces up…
We’ve told you about a search for a door-to-door groper who allegedly molested a child after claiming to be an immigration doctor. Now, Aurora Police believe they’ve got their man — 54-year-old Kenneth Lee, whose mug shot resembles a sketch and computer-generated graphic of the suspect but isn’t as flattering…
Beware the single guy who’s a little too eager to babysit your male children — at least if he resembles the description emerging of Anthony Ganter. Colorado Springs authorities have charged Ganter with sexual assault on a child, plus failure to register as a sex offender, in relation to as…
Update:It took over a week for the Denver coroner’s office to identify the man found dead in a car on the 1100 block of South King Street on October 17. The information came around the same time Paul Cortez was ID’d in a homicide near Bruce Randolph and York. The…
