One of the most uncomfortable responsibilities for municipalities these days is to inform the citizenry that a sexually violent predator has come to town. So imagine how delighted the folks in Wheat Ridge were to let folks know that one who’d previously been living in the community — Robert Knudsen…
Update below: The arrest of Michael Tesman on charges of second-degree kidnapping came together like the law-enforcement equivalent of aligning planets. Credit goes to the reported victim, Tesman’s ex-wife, who was able to text message her son about the situation, plus a helpful bartender and a timely zap from a…
You knew this one was coming. Following gunplay on 18th Avenue, Filberto Alderete was arrested for killing Jesus Sifuentes Jr. — but he was subsequently cleared under the Make My Day law. Likewise, the police shooting of Daniel Alderete at the same location was ruled justifiable by the Denver District…
Walter Bond doesn’t exactly hide his convictions when it comes to animal rights. Law-enforcement types note that he has “a prominent tattoo on his neck just below his chin that reads, ‘VEGAN.'” However, Bond is accused of doing more than simply sticking to salads. He’s been formally charged with setting…
Any of us who own and love dogs would be heartsick if our pet died — and probably even more upset if another dog caused its death. But Fort Collins’ Nicole Ann Anderson is accused of taking this anger and frustration to lethal extremes. After her boyfriend’s Australian Shepherd/Labrador mix…
Update below: You can say this about the group of burglars currently being sought by the Denver Police Department: They’re not slackers. Over the course of two nights this week, the thieves are accused of swiping computer equipment and more from four separate South Oneida Street office buildings. Wonder if…
Last November, the death of Brittney Brashers, a 22-year-old Air Force veteran, seemed like a tragic accident. She was supposedly at the wheel when she drunkenly crashed into two parked cars — and while her passenger, Robert Walters, sustained only minor injuries, she was killed. Now, however, Walters has been…
The search for twelve-year old Greeley resident Kayleah Wilson ended in May with tragic news compounded by shock when prosecutors accused eighteen-year-old Robert Montoya with having a sexual relationship with her. Today, Montoya’s attorney tried to convince a judge to lower the teen’s bail, insisting that his client had nothing…
The Make My Day law is getting a workout lately. Hot on the heels of Filberto Alderete being cleared in the death of Jesus Sifuentes Jr., word surfaced about a South Williams Street shooting in which a man turned a robber’s gun against him. Now we know the name of…
Update below: The day after Filberto Alderete was cleared in the death of Jesse Sifuentes Jr., who was allegedly trying to force his way into Alderete’s 18th Avenue house, and mere weeks after no charges were filed against a homeowner in the Marcus Duran killing, we learn about another potential…
Yesterday, we let you know that Vicente Solorzano, a suspect in an Aurora double shooting, had previously been swept up in an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid targeting “transnational gangs with ties to drug-trafficking organizations.” The latest: Solorzano has turned himself in and is currently the subject of an ICE…
Alleged wrong-way drunk driver Betsy Long, a onetime green-biz entrepreneur, faces vehicular homicide charges and more in a July 5 crash that killed Mary Warren, a 22-year old bound for the Peace Corps. And according to prosecutors, she cleared the legal .08 blood-alcohol-content limit with plenty of room to spare,…
If the mug shot of Vicente Solorzano, twenty, who’s wanted in a non-fatal shooting in Aurora on Monday night, looks familiar, it should. The same shot ran earlier this year in relation to a post about Project Big Freeze, an Immigration and Customs Enforcement raid targeting “transnational gangs with ties…
Sheridan Police Department confirms that a suspicious death over the weekend near the 2600 block of West Hampden along the Bear Creek bike trail was a homicide. No victim has been identified at this writing, but reports suggest that the victim was a 51-year-old female transient who may have died…
Update below: Yesterday, we shared a pair of updates about an over-the-weekend incident in which one man was killed, a second man (Filberto Alderete) was arrested for investigation of first-degree murder, and a third man (Daniel Alderete) was shot by police after allegedly refusing to drop a weapon — although…
Update below: Earlier today, we told you about a barbecue gone wrong in which Filberto Alderte was arrested regarding a first-degree murder investigation and Daniel Alderte was apparently shot by a Denver Police officer. The DPD is now confirming that Daniel was indeed the person shot by police, adding this…
To be a good burglar, a person needs stealth, toughness and a faulty moral compass. But apparently being bizarrely thin helps, too. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, a medical marijuana dispensary located at the posted address of Colorado Cannacare was robbed of paraphernalia, not weed, over the weekend…
Update below: What started out as a friendly barbecue erupted in chaos and confusion yesterday. The Denver Police Department says it responded to reports of shots fired to find a dead man, and a second man (reportedly ID’d by family as Daniel Alderte) holding a gun he didn’t drop until…
This sketch appears to show a nice, clean-cut young man. But what he’s suspected of doing was neither nice nor clean. Yesterday, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office says, a man fitting this description tried to grab a fourteen-year-old girl near the Cherry Knolls pool, and might have succeeded had she…
The Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, the nicknaming kings of local law enforcement, have another scofflaw on their radar: the JV Bandit, who earned his handle for wearing a letter jacket on one of his jobs. Go team! Will he be wrapped up as quickly as the Formally Known…
Something fishy appears to be going down in the Aurora Police Department. As Face the State’s Jared Jacang Maher reported yesterday, the Department of Justice is investigating the police force, apparently because of its recruitment practices…
Earlier today, we told you about a murder on East 36th Avenue. The Denver coroner has now identified the woman who died in the shooting as Katsina Roybal, 21. This isn’t the first time Roybal’s name has been in the news. She was indicted and convicted in relation to the…
