In recent months, two high school coaches — Broomfield’s Trevor Masse and Longmont’s Alex Tinsley — have been busted on suspicion of inappropriate sexual contact with students. So the five-year sentence handed to Roberto Rodriguez, a middle-school soccer coach, for doing pretty much the same thing, should sound a cautionary…
Kidnappings of the child-custody variety are all too common these days. But they don’t often involve disagreements between grandparents. That seems to be what’s happening in the case of Matthew Garcia, eight, whose grandfather, Leo Garcia, is suspected of taking him. Look below to see a photo of Matthew, as…
The communities north of Denver have seen more than their fair share of homicides lately. Sean and Staci Griffin, murdered in a Boulder flooring store. Superior’s Stephanie Rochester, charged in the killing of her infant son. Boulderite Thomas Holloway, eyed in the shooting of his elderly stepfather. And now Thorton’s…
Animal cruelty cases don’t get much more inexplicable than this one: Arapahoe County’s Lopez family returned from an outing this past weekend to discover Conrad, their pet English bulldog, dead in a partially filled bathtub. The case is so uncommon that Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson isn’t even sure how…
Let-out at area nightspots can be volatile, which is why Denver cops often hang near venues like Club Vinyl, at 1082 Broadway. Which explains why they were on the scene almost instantly when gunfire broke out nearby early this morning…
The story of Alex Tinsley, a Longmont High School teacher and karate club “sensei” arrested on suspicion of sexual assault on a child, started out creepy — and it definitely hasn’t changed directions. The latest: Tinsley reportedly told police he had multiple trysts with the student in his pickup truck…
We recently told you about the arrest of Jared Jimenez on suspicion of child abuse resulting in death. Now the Denver District Attorney’s Office has formally charged Jimenez with first degree murder and several other counts, and the statement of probable cause in the case makes it clear why. In…
The May arrest of ex-Broomfield High School wrestling coach Trevor Masse on sexual assault on a child counts apparently didn’t have much of an impact on Alex Tinsley, a Longmont High School staffer and karate club overseer just busted on suspicion of similar acts. Like Masse, Tinsley is accused of…
The arrests of Joseph Lightfoot and Amber Wildenstein, both 29, on one count apiece of child abuse raised eyebrows in the medical marijuana community. After all, the charges against Lightfoot and Wildenstein are based solely on them growing marijuana in their home — something they’re authorized to do because of…
Following a strange kidnapping, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office issued a sketch of the suspect — and that was the only image available even after the arrest of Joseph Scott Carter in the crime. Now, however, the BCSO has released a mug shot of Carter just in time for him…
Just in from the Broomfield Police Department: Thomas Holloway, 53, from Boulder has been arrested following a couple of incidents last night. According to the BPD, Holloway is suspected of firing two shotgun blasts through the door of his estranged wife’s Summit at Flatirons apartment. No one in the apartment…
Yesterday, we told you about a weekend kidnapping near Peak to Peak Highway — the third assault on Boulder County nature lovers in June. Hours later, following the release of a suspect sketch, authorities came upon Joseph Scott Carter, a local transient who’s been arrested as a suspect in the…
On Thursday, we told you about the second recent attack on a nature lover in the Boulder County area this month. Now, a third: a man and a woman were reportedly kidnapped by a rifle-wielding man over the weekend, but managed to escape. How concerned should locals be? Commander Rick…
Over the weekend, the Denver Police Department shared information about the death of a fourteen-month-old child. The tragedy was caused by injuries deemed questionable enough to arrest the child’s father, Jared Jimenez, on suspicion of child abuse resulting in death. It’s not Jimenez’s first run in with the law: He’s…
Update, 1:38 p.m.: Well, that was fast. Mere hours after putting out an alert for the excellently named bank robber known as The Formerly Known as the Perennial Bandit Bandit, the FBI has announced that a suspect — Shaun Michael Gay, 23 — has been taken into custody. Get the…
Poor Joe Nacchio! The Denver U.S. District judge who handled his resentencing hearing just shaved two months off of his six-year, all-expenses-paid vacation at a plush Pennsylvania Country Club Prison. But don’t feel sorry for him: He still gets to keep all of the money he stole from US West…
Yesterday, the U.S. Attorneys Office announced the latest busts in its Operation Cripsland campaign — eight arrests on weapon and drug charges to supplement a roundup of nine others last year. As a bonus, the feds include the nicknames of the men snagged, including Rock, Lil Walt and Ken Dog…..
If you’re a woman in Boulder who likes to enjoy the great outdoors, you can’t be reassured by the latest release from the Boulder Police department. Shortly after news broke about an attack on a hiker on the Foothills Trail, we’re learning about an earlier incident on the Boulder Creek…
Being a policeman — and we’re using a gender-specific term for a reason — is tough under the best circumstances. But some days are worse than others. Take the Boulder cop who responded to a domestic violence call, only to allegedly be given a rack job by the woman who’d…
If the Weld County Sheriff’s Office is correct, Christian Hanson, 21, has been a busy — and bad — man. He was already in custody on kidnapping and sexual assault beefs. But now, he’s also suspected in a murder-for-hire plot that led to the more recent arrest of Jesse Rodriguez,…
One gutsy Colorado Springs man is facing hard time after he filed a fraudulent lien against the home of an IRS agent in retaliation for a lien the IRS placed on his home. Ronald Roy Hoodenpyle, come on down!…
The release from the Boulder Police Department about an alleged assault that took place yesterday on the Foothills Trail involving an unnamed woman and Michael Gonzales-Davis notes that she managed to “fight him off.” But the details of her response make her achievement seem much more impressive. The woman reportedly…
