According to the Broomfield Police Department, two female clients of massage therapist Shouchun Han experienced the opposite of a happy ending at his hands. Their claims of inappropriate touching during rubdowns have led to an investigation of possible unlawful sexual contact and sexual assault charges. Page down to get details…
Here at the Criminal Affairs Desk, we get letters from inmates. Boy, do we get letters. But one recent missive from a Colorado prisoner offers some of the best advice we’ve ever heard for negotiating a long stretch in the state prison system. Such as: Don’t ask, don’t snitch. Keep…
Denver cop Hector Paez allegedly made a woman he’d arrested an unpleasant offer: perform a sex act on him or go to jail. She presumably chose the former — and as a result, he’s experiencing the latter. He’s been booked on a series of charges, including sexual assault. Page down…
Update: The victim of a Friday homicide at Aurora’s Crestwood Suites has been identified as Michael Pinkus, 51. He owned a residence that was burglarized on East Baltic Circle — the crime that led police to discovery his body. Also ID’d is a man accused of taking part in the…
At 8:30 a.m., Lacy Lee will go on trial for smoking marijuana at a pro-cannabis event — unless, that is, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper grants a request expressed in a letter on view below from attorney Rob Corry, who represents Lee, and asks the city attorney to drop the case…
Last week, we told you about the vacating of a murder conviction for David Bueno, a prisoner found guilty of killing a fellow con in 2004. In the piece, attorney David Lane accused the 18th Judicial District DA’s office, led by Carol Chambers, of hiding evidence in the case, described…
In May, we shared our collection of the 30 most memorable mug shots of 2010 up until then. But there have been a lot of riveting images released since then — including candids of Osama hunter Gary Faulkner, Western Slope district attorney Myrl Serra and Jacob Joseph Medina, seen here,…
You know times are tough when stealing heavy storm grates for their scrap value seems like a reasonable way to make money. But that’s what the folks at the Denver Police Department think Richard Goodface and Duane Brown have been doing. They’ve both been booked on investigation of felony theft…
In January, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office announced that Joseph Trujillo faced a first-degree murder charge in the death of his five-month old, who died alone while he was out drinking. A week later, the charge against Trujillo was lessened to child abuse resulting in death, to which he pleaded…
Yesterday, we told you John Elway was among the investors allegedly scammed by accused Ponzi schemer Sean Mueller. Now comes news that Elway and a partner invested $15 million a month before Mueller reportedly tried to commit suicide — an act that led to his unmasking…
Yesterday, Sean Mueller was charged with racketeering and other counts in association with an alleged Ponzi scheme that he ran over the span of a decade. Denver Broncos legend John Elway was among 65 folks who invested a reported $71 million with Mueller, whose unmasking was precipitated by a suicide…
Cigarettes are extremely pricey these days — but has the cost gotten so high that they’re worth risking an armed robbery beef? That’s one way to interpret the story of a fifteen-year old from Castle Rock, who avoided paying for smokes by pulling a gun…
Yvonne Frye, 62, a much-loved professor at the Community College of Denver, was killed last week in a crash for which twenty-year-old Jose Nevarez-Coronado has been charged with vehicular homicide. Nevarez-Coronado was allegedly drunk — but not in the country illegally, as the Denver Post claimed yesterday…
In an October 8 press release, the Aurora Police Department described the discovery of a body at 1931 North Clinton Street as “suspicious.” But there’s been radio silence beyond that until this afternoon, when APD spokesman Detective Bob Friel confirmed that the case is being investigated as a homicide…
“If you are looking for a blend of personal service and expertise, you have come to the right place!. I offer a broad range of services for business owners, executives and independent professionals.” So reads the welcome message on Fort Collins CPA David Zamzow’s website. No mention of theft, fraud…
Advocates of cannabis legalization like Eva Enns of the Women’s Marijuana Movement emphasize that the substance should be kept away from children. But apparently Jack Duke, a 27-year-old Grand Junction resident, didn’t get the memo. Duke’s been arrested on suspicion of teaching two of his daughters, ages six and seven,…
The ugly news that Denver Deputy Sheriff Mark Davis had been arrested for investigation of sexual assault on a child has gotten uglier. He’s been charged with multiple counts of sexual assault on a twelve-year old, with more counts promised today involving an eight-year old — and authorities are on…
Earlier this week, Rene Ogden and twins Chase and Olivia were found dead in their Colorado Springs area home. In the immediate aftermath of the tragedy, police declined to rule out any possible causes for their deaths even as reports surfaced that Rene had recently seemed depressed. Now, however, the…
There Aaron Klug was, minding his own business at a Dungeons & Dragons event Tuesday, when the pesky cops showed up. Did he slay them with his Flaming Battle Axe or bludgeon them with his skull-topped Staff of Power? Did he pelt them to death with polyhedral dice? No, he…
“Who would you rather have protecting you? The man who unleashed a serial killer on Colorado, or Stan Garnett — the man who put the killer away?” That tag line from a new attack ad in the Colorado Attorney General’s race puts aside any doubt that we’re entering the campaign’s…
Gary Faulkner may not have been able to lay his hands on Osama bin Laden — a quizzical quest that led to an interview on CBS and an appearance on the Late Show With David Letterman — but he’s apparently capable of doing some damage. He was arrested yesterday on…
As recounted in the April story “The Boy Who Wouldn’t Tell,” Alan Sudduth has spent more than half his 31 years behind bars for the 1995 killing of Denver cab driver Finley Bradshaw Myers, even though somebody else — a friend of Sudduth’s named Nicholas Reed — has repeatedly confessed…
