Update: Authorities remain tight-lipped about why Myrl Serra, district attorney for the 7th Judicial District, was jailed today on charges of unlawful sexual conduct and indecent exposure. Serra was released from Montrose County jail on a $5,000 bond (he returns to court on November 3), but not before posing for…
Although JonBenét Ramsey died (back in 1996), her case shows no signs of doing so. The latest development involves Burke Ramsey, JonBenét’s brother, who was nine at the time of her death. A major network is claiming Boulder cops want to question him more than a week after a local…
Colorado Attorney General’s office spokesman Mike Saccone confirms that Myrl Serra, district attorney for the 7th Judicial District, which covers several Western Slope counties, is in Montrose County jail following his arrest this morning on three startling charges: unlawful sexual contact, no consent, with force or threats; indecent exposure; and…
Remember that scene in Goodfellas where Tommy (Joe Pesci) responds to a compliment from Henry (Ray Liotta) about a joke by seemingly building up to a homicidal freak out — “Funny like a clown, I amuse you?” — before revealing that he was only putting everyone on? A similar scene…
Candidates for public office often have to worry about skeletons in their closet. But in the race for Colorado Attorney General, it’s the bodies buried by ex-government informant Scott Kimball that could make a difference. AG John Suthers has been blasted by challenger Stan Garnett over his role in setting…
In most cases of arson, the furniture that’s destroyed is inside the house. But not so in the case of a Broomfield fire late last week. In that incident, furniture left on a home’s driveway in anticipation of an estate sale was torched, with the house subsequently going up in…
A federal court judge has set bail for Dr. Louis Hampers, the former head of the Children’s Hospital ER who is accused of writing 654 phony prescriptions using several aliases and stolen identities, at $2.5 million. The ruling came out of a detail-filled court hearing yesterday, at which a federal…
In July, we told you about the arrest of 84-year old Zona’s Tamales owner Zona Moore, along with son Saalim Muhammed, and a third person, Renee McKinnon, on charges of trafficking in cigarettes and other stolen goods. Now, Moore has reportedly pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor count of theft by…
These days, Immigration and Customs Enforcement, better known as ICE, emphasizes that it’s targeting criminal aliens, not otherwise law-abiding citizens who lack documentation authorizing their U.S. residency. And that’s the theme of ICE’s latest Colorado busts. Of the 78 people rounded up from Fruita to Kiowa, 64 of them had…
Lots of new details emerged at a detention hearing today for Dr. Louis Hampers, the Children’s Hospital ER doc arrested for fraudulently writing 654 prescriptions. Among them: that Hampers used the identity of a woman he paid for sex — and the identities of her two minor children — to…
Katrina Camp took her dog on a walk on Saturday evening. If only she hadn’t allegedly left her two-year-old daughter naked, asleep and alone in her truck when she took off for this stroll. But the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office says she did, leading to an arrest on suspicion of…
The murder conviction of Douglas Taylor in the May 2009 arson death of Jose de Jesus Martinez Espinoza isn’t the only recent resolution to a case from our Mile High Murder archives. Ricardo Soto has pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of John McGaughy-Singleton. Details and a photo of…
One of the earliest entries in our Mile High Murder archive involves a May 2009 arson-related murder in Aurora that led to the arrests of Douglas Taylor and Coy Dunn. The victim in the case was subsequently identified as Jose De Jesus Martinez Espinoza. More than a year later, Taylor…
Colorado Attorney General John Suthers has announced the bust of an alleged nine-member drug ring, in which suspects such as Ramon Chavez and Gabriel Farias-Chavez are said to have transported up to fifty pounds of meth per month from Mexico into Colorado. Their storage container of choice? Working car batteries…
On Saturday, Joseph Owen Coy was accused of a racially motivated attack on Olubiyi Ogundipe for allegedly punching the Nigeria-born CU student amid slurs about monkeys and worse — but Boulder Police didn’t know if Coy’s two companions would face similar charges. Now, one of them — Zachrey Harris, 21…
Dr. Louis Hampers, the Children’s Hospital ER doctor charged with writing 654 fake prescriptions, appeared for the first time in a Colorado court today after being arrested in Virginia on September 7. At a 2 p.m. hearing, Magistrate Judge Kathleen Tafoya denied him bail…
Back in February, Nicholas Lorenzo was accused of stroking his meat while behind a meat counter at a Louisville Safeway. Today, he was reportedly sentenced to five years probation, 48 hours community service and a spot on the sex-offender registry — hefty punishment for what was presumably only a few…
David Rangel, the third area teacher busted for alleged improper relations with students in four months, appeared in Weld County District Court yesterday, where bond was set at a whopping $100,000. That’s a big number for a guy who told police that while he kissed and groped a teenage student,…
A new government study has found that texting leads to lots of preventable traffic fatalities due to distracted driving. But at least the technology provides evidence against teachers accused of having sexual relationships with students. Note that yesterday’s arrest of David Anthony Rangel, a language-arts teacher at Greeley’s Jefferson High…
Nadine Montoya has been convicted of murdering a 49-year-old Aurora woman in a hit-and-run at a Burger King last May. Montoya, 27, will likely serve life in prison for crushing Lilian Verdonkschot with her Cadillac deVille and then fleeing the scene. The altercation started when Verdonkschot, her daughter and her…
Yesterday, we told you about the arrest of Joseph Owen Coy on racially motivated crime charges involving Nigeria-born CU student Olubiyi Ogundipe near Boulder’s Hookah House. Now the Boulder Police Department has tracked down Coy’s two companions that evening, and the city manager has released a statement decrying the crime…
In recent years, the 1987 murder of Fort Collins’s Peggy Hettrick has been mentioned most often in relation to Tim Masters, who was improperly convicted of the crime, leading to settlements totaling $10 million. But the case remains unsolved — which makes word of new evidence especially welcome…
