Wednesday’s blog “Does Denver Media Care More When White People are Shot” focused on Randall Waggoner, who wound up shutting down Mineral Avenue in Littleton for hours after a murder/suicide attempt that failed on the former count (his estranged wife, Christina, remains alive, albeit in critical condition) but ultimately succeeded…
Allen Andrade, the 32-year-old convicted in April of murdering transgender Greeley teen Angie Zapata, has a MySpace page. A disturbing one that alternates Christian imagery, hate-speak and pleas not to judge him. It appears to have been set up by one of Andrade’s siblings. (He has at least two sisters,…
View Larger Map Another early morning weekday killing, this one in the alley between the 1400 blocks of Ogden and Emerson, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Denver Police subsequently arrested Charles Garlick, 26. He’s being held in…
That old saying, “The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree”? It’s appropriate in the case of Julia Martinez and Monica Guardado, if a little too quaint — especially given that weapons are involved. According to the Denver District Attorney’s Office, which has charged both women with assault, Guardado, 21,…
Yesterday’s Denver-based TV newscasts were top-heavy with packages about a failed murder-suicide involving Randall Waggoner, 38, and Christina Waggoner, 35, both of Highlands Ranch — and this morning, the reports remain high on the list of local stories accessible at the web homes of Channel 7 and Channel 9, among…
That was quick. Earlier today, we told you about a roommate-on-roommate shooting at 5300 W. Arizona Avenue in Lakewood. Now comes word that the Lakewood Police Department has arrested Kalani Opana, 54, in relation to the crime, which left one man dead and another injured. As for the photo included…
According to the Aurora Police Department, teamwork helped ensnare a man accused of a murder that took place the better part of a year ago. Last November, Angela Ball, 33, was found dead at the Winsor Court Apartments, 10990 East 16th Avenue. Breaks in the case were rare until last…
The Denver Coroner’s Office recently issued a list of all deaths ruled homicides in the city from the beginning of 2009 through July 4. The predictably grim chronicle of 23 individuals who lost their lives in acts of violence offers some useful (and often disturbing) data. Only two of the…
Underwear. It’s special. Special feel. Special aroma. Because, when people wear it, the fabric touches their junk. According to Denver District Attorney, Juan Cerezo-Flores, 45, has an appreciation for these qualities — especially when the underwear in question belongs to someone else. He’s been charged with second-degree burglary and first-degree…
View Larger Map Cohabitation can be a challenge under the best circumstances — but problems are seldom solved by gunplay…. Just past 4 a.m. this morning, officers from the Lakewood Police Department responded to word of a shooting at 5300 W. Arizona Avenue, an area captured in the graphic above…
View Larger Map Another murder that took place in late July…. Early on July 25, Aurora Police Department representatives responded to a call at Street Soldiers Motorcycle Club on the 9500 block of East Colfax, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click…
View Larger Map More information about a July 22 shooting that left a man dead at Montview Bar and Grill, 11680 Montview Boulevard, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Gerome Brooks, 25, and Welton L. Harris, 29, have…
View Larger Map Another development in a homicide sketched out in a blog published last week…. Late last Monday, Northglenn Police responded to a call on the 11600 block of Grant Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”)…
Playing some catch-up on violence that took place over the past couple of weeks…. A July 20 blog noted that a murder had taken place 3602 Leyden Street — but it didn’t note the name of the victim or the identity of the individual accused of the crime. The dead…
View Larger Map Early Sunday morning, Traci Housman, 36, called 911 to report that someone had stabbed her husband at the home they shared on the 2900 block of 23rd Street in Boulder, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger…
View Larger Map Trouble viewing this map? Click “View Larger Map.” Northglenn police are investigating the killing late last night of an unidentified 29-year-old man, who died shortly after fighting with two or three other men. The suspected assailants have been taken into custody. Two women were injured in the…
In the battle to become Ski Country’s most weed-friendly destination, the town of Breckenridge has moved one step closer to legalizing the possession of small amounts of marijuana. The town clerk has certified a petition circulated by Sensible Breckenridge, part of the larger advocacy group Sensible Colorado, verifying that at…
UPDATE: He missed his flight. Assuming they don’t postpone the hearing, this is all kinds of suck. ORIGINAL ITEM: Here’s a story I sort of wish I didn’t read this morning: Actor Kelsey Grammer is in Colorado Springs today to tell a parole board why it shouldn’t release from prison…
It appears that even deadly snakes couldn’t keep Matt Sowash and business partner Andrew Hicks away from poker. As Westword reported Thursday, the two men were arrested this week and accused of five counts of felony securities fraud. A June CBI affidavit used to obtain warrants for the arrests of…
Earlier this week we told you about the Hummer driver who, in a fit of road rage, was believed by state-patrol troopers to have caused a multi-vehicle accident that left a motorcyclist in critical condition. Because he was driving a Hummer, and because I’m a predictable knee-jerk liberal with a…
Denver-area authorities have made yet another holy-shit-that’s-a-lot-of-weed bust on an sophisticated grow operation, no doubt worrying local stoners that they’re approaching their Entourage moment. Don’t worry, guys! That’s what Mexico’s for! The most recent bust happened in the Pike National Forest, where the West Metro Task Force was tipped off…
Poker tour entrepreneurs Matt Sowash and Andrew “Doc” Hicks were arrested this week and charged with securities fraud. Investigators have been working on the case for two years, ever since two other men hatched a plot to kill Sowash using rattlesnakes. In that case, detailed in the 2007 Westword feature,…
