On Monday, we told you about an FBI alert pertaining to the so-called Portfolio Bandit, the latest scofflaw to wind up with a Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force-approved nickname, following in the footsteps of such luminaries as the H1N1 Bandit, the Tom Thumb Bandit and the Band-Aid Bandit. Henceforth,…
Update, July 19:Ty Gregorak has been de-Shmuckified following the dropping of all charges against him. Read more about this turn of events by clicking here The original item is below. There are certain of rules of engagement involved in visiting strip clubs, and they are for the most part simple…
Last month, we told you about a Channel 31 report about Travis Masse, which quoted the Broomfield Police Department as confirming that an investigation into the former Broomfield High School teacher and wrestling coach was underway. Problem is, a BPD spokesman told Westword the department hadn’t specifically announced that Masse…
According to the Lafayette Police Department, Nancy Marks has got your number — or at least wanted it. Although Marks worked as a psychic, she reportedly also used her mental powers to separate customers from their cash “by convincing them that ‘money is evil’ and that she needed to know…
As Denver City Councilman Chris Nevitt noted yesterday in support of a proclamation demanding comprehensive immigration reform, “I think the two sides of this debate have demonized each other. The immigration-rights folks look at the people who pursued the Arizona measure as being motivated by racism and anti-immigrant sentiment, and…
A Boulder family got an eyeful recently when, during a routine drive to the bank, they saw a man making an unauthorized withdrawal. From his pants. Are you following? The man, whose name I’ll leave out on the off chance I ever get hammered and end up cranking it in…
Utah is a beautiful state that attracts thousands upon thousands of tourists each year. But those who enjoy themselves most tend to be the ones who visit by choice, not force. This distinction should prove important for Aurora’s Jacson Quintanilla-Mejia, 23, who allegedly picked up his former girlfriend in Broomfield,…
It’s been four weeks-plus since the capture of Merle Allison, thought to be the so-called Limping Latex Bandit. Since then, the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force hasn’t introduced us to any new nicknamed scofflaws. Finally, however, there’s a worthy successor to the H1N1 Bandit, the Tom Thumb Bandit, the…
In March, we told you about the strange case of Jay DeVaughn, a librarian for the Community College of Aurora, who at that point had been accused of mailing a single threatening letter. But the criminal complaint filed against him at that time contained plenty of other bizarro assertions –…
Mother’s Day weekend wasn’t a cause for celebration for the Ciacio family. On Friday, Denver Police Department officers discovered the body of a woman at 1625 Tamarac, and while authorities haven’t formally identified her, they’ve noted that the person being held in association with the killing — Michael Ciacio, 47…
According to attorney Jessica Corry, one aspect of HB 1284, the medical marijuana regulatory bill on the verge of becoming law, that’s most deserving of being challenged in court involves communities’ ability to ban MMJ dispensaries. That’s what Thornton has done, and earlier this week, it exercised its powers in…
Earlier this week, Jerrad Leonard, 27, was accused of drunkenly hitting a police car and several other vehicles in a brief flurry of automotive mayhem. In the end, six people went to the hospital. Don’t blame Dog the Bounty Hunter. Back in 2008, he busted Leonard as part of his…
The mug shot seen here of John Angerer, who was charged with murder yesterday in the 2006 slaying of Longmont’s Angela Wilds, is among the most vivid we’ve seen lately — but it’s hardly the only memorable mug that’s arrived of late. We’re only a little over a third of…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office release about an indictment naming Xavier Joseph Duran is brief and fairly colorless. But the references to multiple counts of securities fraud and series theft are accompanied by an aside about a victim whose husband was a police officer killed in the line of duty…
Amid the uproar stirred by the new Arizona immigration law — travel bans by Denver Public Schools and the City of Boulder, plus student walkouts and weekend rallies — US Immigration Customs and Enforcement, known as ICE, continues to be on the lookout for people in the country illegally. Late…
Right now, Tess Damm, eighteen, is a resident of a state youth facility, having been convicted of helping boyfriend Bryan Groves murder her mom three years earlier. Linda was stabbed eighteen times. But officials went to court yesterday to ask that she be transferred to an adult jail. Among their…
Longmont’s Jason Kay thought relabeling Gatorade bottles with a photo of Tiger Woods and his wife Elin and the word “Unfaithful” was such a great idea that he even suggested that Pepsi, Gatorade’s parent company, finance his art project. Even though the gag made worldwide headlines, Pepsi execs didn’t see…
The murder of Michael Hulburt in what looks to be a road-rage incident turns out not to have been the only slaying in Aurora over the weekend. The Aurora Police Department has just released information about a thus-far-unidentified man killed early Saturday morning at the Carriage Motel Inn (misidentified as…
On Friday, we told you about a Boulder High senior camping trip that led to three hospitalizations, trips to the county’s alcohol-recovery center and a third-degree-assault arrest. According to the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office, Brandon Gouin, a 21-year-old CU student, has been charged with supplying the booze that fueled the…
On May 17, 2009, Westword launched Mile High Murder, a series of posts tracking homicides in the seven county Denver/Boulder metro area. Just shy of a year later, Michael Hulburt became the 88th entry on our list. But he was far more than a number — and his killing stands…
Editor’s note: Melanie Asmar covered today’s sentencing of Willie Clark, who was convicted of murdering former Bronco Darrent Williams. To follow the event in chronological order, read from the bottom up, and click here to check out Asmar’s original posts from the trial. 2:55 p.m.: The hearing is over. Demond…
Domestic-violence charges typically involve sadly common bad behavior: punching, kicking and so on. But the ones filed against 29-year-old transient Mark Wray are considerably more unusual. Among other things, he’s accused of pissing on his wife’s head. At about 11:15 p.m. on Tuesday, says Boulder Police spokeswoman Sarah Huntley, officers…
