Mile High Murder, No. 26: An Aurora bar fight turns deadly

View Larger Map Trouble viewing this map? Click “View Larger Map”) Two women fought last night at Montview Bar and Grill, according to Aurora Police Department Spokesman Bob Friel. One of the women left the bar around 1 a.m. and got into a truck with two men. Another man followed…

A Hummer driver with road rage? Well, that’s unexpected!

In perhaps the least surprising news since the cancellation of Frank TV, Colorado State Patrol troopers are looking for the driver of an Hummer H2 who, in a fit of road rage, may have intentionally caused a wreck that left a motorcycle rider seriously injured. The incident happened Sunday afternoon…

Crime on the rise in Broomfield

Crime of all stripes tends to ratchet upward during difficult economic conditions — and that’s proven to be the case in Broomfield according to statistics assembled by the community’s police department. During the first six months of this year, crime in general is up 3 percent. Even more worrisome, the…

Former Bronco Travis Henry sentenced to three years in prison

Back in September, former Denver Broncos running back Travis Henry was arrested in relation to a series of cocaine-related charges — but because the drugs in question were found in Montana, the trial took place there rather than in Denver. That proceeding ended today with Henry earning 36 months in…

DA Carol Chambers: Avoiding the inevitable

As Westword’s Alan Prendergast has reported in a series of blogs, Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour Jr. has ordered district attorney Carol Chambers to appoint a special prosecutor in the case of Julie Stene, who says she was sexually assaulted after a 2000 high school graduation party by two…

State, insurers respond to hepatitis-C scare

Surgical tech Kristen Parker, accused of spreading hepatitis-C to patients at two Colorado medical facilities, has precipitated actions by both Colorado agencies and private insurance firms. The Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment has set up a hep-C page complete with links to Rose Medical Center and Audobon Ambulatory…

Judge to DA Carol Chambers: Get cracking

Julie Stene has waited nine years for her day in court, and Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour Jr. figures that’s long enough. Denying a reluctant district attorney’s effort to further delay filing charges in a 2000 rape investigation that the DA’s office repeatedly refused to pursue, Judge Samour instructed…

Accused hepatitus-C passer Kristen Parker: “I f—ed up”

In recent days and weeks, there have been a lot of things said about Kristen Parker, an operating-room tech accused of infecting a thus-far-unknown number of patients with hepatitis-C by swapping dirty syringes for clean ones. But the main words attributed to her in this space and elsewhere were from…

Alleged hepatitis-C passer Kristen Parker held without bond

Don’t worry about running into operating-room tech Kristen Parker anytime soon — if you’re not in the hoosgow, that is. The self-confessed needle lover accused of spreading hepatitis-C among patients at two different medical facilities in the area is being held without bond according to a new release from the…

Is there an elderly child killer on the prowl in Denver?

The way Jim Benish tells it, if local law enforcement agencies don’t manage to solve two and possibly three notorious, decades-old child murder cases, it won’t be because they don’t have enough evidence. “They have all the information that I have,” says Benish, a former Thornton police officer and author…

If DA Carol Chambers is right, everybody else is wrong

It’s rare for a judge to order a reluctant district attorney to purse a rape case, finding that the DA’s decision not to file was arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable. But that’s what happened last year in a decade-old sex assault case in Arapahoe County that we reported on in “CU…

Thug allegedly poses for photo before kicking ass

Obviously, we hope no one ever assaults anyone. Give peace a chance! But goons hoping to get away with such a crime should know better than to stand in front of a bus camera en route to their chosen butt-beating locale. That’s what the man in the photo attached here…