There’s something obviously disgusting about a woman rallying her friends and family around an illness she invented, raising money for treating cancer when it’s nothing but crazy that infects her body. But what’s even more punch-yourself-in-the-face mind-boggling about the crime committed by Tausha Marsh, who this week pleaded guilty to…
Remember Gino Rael? He’s the convicted sex offender accused of trying to recruit underage girls in letters written from jail — and while he insisted in court that he was actually targeting women of legal age, a judge pointed out that descriptions such as “I like skateboards, robots, fighting pirates”…
Early yesterday morning in Boulder, a college-age woman living in an apartment on the 1800 block of 22nd Street awakened to find a man’s hands in her underwear — and although her boyfriend was sleeping beside her, the hands weren’t his. According to Boulder Police Department spokesman Sarah Huntley, the…
The Denver Police Department’s sex-offender registration unit has released an updated roster of sex offenders who’ve failed to register. And it’s not short. There are well over 100 individuals on the list: some who look scary as hell, others who appear relatively benign (and are therefore arguably scarier). Page through…
That didn’t take long. Yesterday, we told you about the search for Timothy McGlothin, who authorities (and members of a grand jury) believe was part of bank-robbery group dubbed the Hoppin Hooded Bandits, for the way they leapt over counters to collect their loot. Well, McGlothin was subsequently grabbed at…
Last night, Westminster cops went shopping at Costco — and wound up with a discount deal for a couple of carjacking suspects found hiding on the roof of an out building in the box store’s parking lot. The drama started with a 911 call about two people who drew iron…
It’s a classic movie scenario that’s popped up in American Pie, Mean Girls and plenty of other teen flicks: Mom and dad take a vacation, leaving their kids at home — where they throw a giant party that gets out of hand. Hilarious, right? Unless you’re Pete Hautzinger, Grand Junction’s…
Back in April, we told you about Tausha Marsh, a Fort Collins woman accused of faking cancer in order to collect thousands of dollars in donations. At that time, many of those writing on her Facebook wall defended her. Typical is this note, left on April 12: “Happy Birthday to…
The Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, profiled in this Westword feature, has had plenty of bank robberies to investigate of late. But at least three of the most memorable jobs, committed on December 2, December 9 and December 15, may have been the work of the same criminals, dubbed…
Tonight’s episode of the Discovery Channel program I (Almost) Got Away With It, airing locally at 8 p.m., has a distinctly Denver flavor. The show tells the tale of local-boy-made-bad Gonzolo Martinez, who was sentenced to almost half a century in prison for a shooting at a party only to…
The drunken passenger accused of interfering with a Las Vegas-bound flight that had to land at DIA was indicted in a Denver court today. Gregory Thomas Burns, a 33-year-old resident of New York who is now grounded in California, told investigators “his drinking alcoholic beverages to an excess caused him…
Charlie Sheen, whose Christmas present was an arrest for allegedly threatening and assaulting wife Brooke Mueller, wanted to avoid cameras inside an Aspen courthouse during his appearance there yesterday — and his lawyers prevailed on that matter. But there was nothing he could do to prevent cameras outside the building…
Seven years ago, after an emotional murder trial that was rich in incriminating circumstantial evidence but short on motive, a Denver jury found Hal Hebert guilty of shooting his wife Carol in 2001 in their Belcaro home. A key witness for the prosecution was an oddball named Richard White, who…
The long, twisted tale of Operation Fortune Cookie — the state’s biggest indoor weed bust, which went to pot once a snitch spilled the beans to the drug ring about the investigation and the law-enforcement agencies that were involved imploded — was slated to wrap up this week. On Wednesday,…
View Larger Map Early on the morning of Super Bowl Sunday, Denver Police were called to 675 S. Raleigh Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). A party had been going on there, but it apparently got way…
Raymond Swisher was arrested on January 15, but charges weren’t announced until today. Why? Maybe because it took that long to count up all the bad things he allegedly recorded himself doing. In the end, he hit triple digits via 85 counts of indecent exposure and fifteen alleging unlawful sexual…
In early January, right after Douglass Singleton was shot and killed, the Denver Police Department characterized the slaying as a medical marijuana transaction gone awry — leading to speculation that the weed element was being trumped up for demonization purposes without adequate proof. The Denver District Attorney’s Office hasn’t played…
Activists rightly tout the ability of the disabled to do just about anything. But don’t expect them to use Steven Clark as a poster boy. Clark, 33, who uses a wheelchair due to cerebral palsy, has been hit with several charges related to sexual abuse on a child — the…
Thomas Bader, a Colorado Springs pharmacist, was found guilty today of 31 counts related to importing and distributing anabolic steroids and Chinese human growth hormones. Twenty-three of those counts were for distributing the juice to minors. Bader told physicians his illegal drugs were not subject to FDA approval due to…
“Iraq veteran Nic Gray talks to Westword about the night he can’t remember.”This week’s cover story relates the tale of how Nic Gray, an Iraq war veteran, got caught up in the criminal justice system and eventually landed in an innovative new program called the El Paso County veterans treatment…
Volunteer youth minister William “Bill” McLaughlin has been in Douglas County jail since mid-December on a $500,000 bail thanks to multiple charges of sexual assault on a child. But the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office continues to investigate the possibility of additional victims. According to the DCSO, McLaughlin has been associated…
Today, while law enforcement and bank honchos were meeting to discuss a recent upsurge in Denver-area bank robberies, a new bank was hit a little over a mile away. Score one for the robbers. In total, there were 208 robberies in Colorado and Wyoming in 2009, a 37 percent increase…
