People in charge of a place called the Colorado Humane Society may not seem like logical candidates for Shmuck of the Week recognition. But back in December 2008, owners executive director Mary Warren, her husband, Robert Warren, and Mary Warren’s daughter, Stephenie Gardner, more than earned this honor after Attorney…
Swiping televisions used to be easier when they didn’t all used to be so friggin’ huge — especially if you’re as relatively small of stature as a suspected robber who was in the midst of trying to manhandle a 46-inch set in Boulder when the home’s owner confronted him earlier…
Two weeks ago, David Lane, attorney for Balloon Boy dad Richard Heene, griped that a $47,000-plus restitution charge for leading law-enforcement officials on a wild experimental-craft chase was way too high. That complaint has now been formalized: A motion challenging the amount was filed on Friday — and this morning,…
The world will have to wait a little bit longer to learn the fate of the Niwot urine-drinker. According to the Boulder Daily Camera, the retrial of Joseph Cardillo has been postponed because his new attorney needs time to catch up on the case. And what a case it is…
Some individuals accused of crimes wind up generating a significant amount of sympathy — but that’s unlikely to happen for Steven Clay Romero — because of what he’s accused of doing to a dog named Buddy. Late yesterday, a grand jury indicted Romero on one charge of animal cruelty. According…
Last Friday U.S. District Judge Robert Blackburn threw out a plea bargain deal for former Rose Medical Center employee Kristen Parker, who admitted infecting surgical patients with hepatitis C through needles contaminated by her own drug use. No real surprise here: Blackburn is even more of a control freak than…
It seems like only a couple of weeks ago that a passenger caused a flight to make an unscheduled landing in Colorado due to inexplicable behavior (including his insistence on shaving topless). That’s because it was only a couple of weeks ago. Now, a similar act: A thus-far unnamed man…
Thomas Quintin, 62, a Denver man with a long history of felony tax fraud, is facing new scrutiny after he walked away from his sentence at a half-way house and allegedly started a scheme investigators traced to caches totaling at least $1.3 million in government money last month. With 641…
View Larger Map Earlier today, we told you about a shootout at Aurora’s T&R Liquors, pictured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Now, the Aurora Police Department has confirmed that one of the three people wounded in the melee has died:…
View Larger Map Getting your drink on proved risky last night at T&R Liquors in Aurora, pictured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). According to the Aurora Police Department, an argument outside the store led to multiple gunshots that hit multiple…
On December 1, Colorado’s ban against texting while driving went into effect, and in an interview with Westword, Representative Claire Levy, who co-sponsored the original bill, defended the measure despite complaints by Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle about the difficulty of enforcing it. “When confronted with the difficulty of enforcement,…
Stories of alleged neglect don’t get much more horrific than the one related by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office in regard to Joseph Trujillo, 23. Shortly after midnight, according to the JCSO, Trujillo’s mother heard crying, which makes sense given that she lives with her son and his five-month-old child…
Plea bargains are a necessary evil given how overtaxed our judicial system is these days. But it’s still frustrating when someone who seems to deserve a long, long sentence gets a lighter one simply because he made a deal saving the state the time and expense of putting him on…
The Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force is rightly championed for the clever names it assigns to wanted men and women, including the Hopping Hooded Bandits, the $83 Bandit, the Shaggy Bandit and, of course, Bonnie and Clyde. Now, the Aurora Police Department has gotten into the act, putting out…
Earlier this month, Gino Rael, a 26-year-old registered sex offender, was accused of trying to lure underage girls by writing them letters — from Boulder County Jail. This week, Rael offered his defense, reportedly claiming to have been tricked into contacting prepubescents — because he thought he was writing to…
In October, Jennifer Carter, a secretary at Palmer Elementary, was charged with two misdemeanors for the way she dealt with a misbehaving six-year-old student — by taping his hands together and his mouth shut. Today, Carter pleaded guilty to one of those counts, for which she’ll receive an 18-month deferred…
What is it with beheadings all of a sudden? Last week, we told you about a Boulder break-in during which a woman’s betta fish was decapitated. And now, a Longmont couple reveals that the head of their beloved fiberglass horse has been separated from its body. According to the Longmont…
A common lament among members of the medical marijuana industry is that police and the media essentially work together to trump up incidents or look for connections to weed that may or may not exist — as in Sunday’s home-invasion robbery in Fort Collins, when medical marijuana was mentioned before…
Another day, another grabby crime that may (or may not) be related to medical marijuana — this one a home invasion in Fort Collins that’s resulted in the arrest of four subjects who allegedly bound a trio of men and held them at gunpoint. Sergeant Jon Holsten of the Fort…
Remember Kristen Parker, the surgical tech who passed her case of hepatitis-C to at least fifteen patients at Rose Medical Center via needles she’d used on herself? As part of her plea agreement in the case, she had to explain what she’d done on a video that’s now been released…
Prior to last year’s Naked Pumpkin Run, Boulder district attorney Stan Garnett told Westword that the charges available to use in relation to the event didn’t fit the crime — or whatever the hell you’d call stripping off your clothes and dashing around with a pumpkin shell on your head…
As we told you last week, a man was found dead in an SUV at the Cottonwood Trail Apartments in Aurora — and police were investigating it as a homicide. Since then, the victim has been identified as William Harvey, reportedly a member of the CU Buffs football team in…
