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,…
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 Denver cop is accused of pulling his gun in an effort to speed up his drive-through order at an Aurora McDonald’s in May, the Post is reporting. From their story: A Denver police officer faces felony menacing and weapons charges based on an allegation that he pointed a pistol…
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…
View Larger Map (Trouble viewing this map? Click “View Larger Map”) Perhaps they were trying to pin it on Ani DiFranco? The Denver Police is investigating a kidnapping/murder at 3602 North Leyden, which they’ve connected to a body dumped in Commerce City — where the police were busy enough this…
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…
Early yesterday morning, the Aurora Police Department issued information about an apparent street race at the intersection of South Peoria Street and East Yale Avenue in which one of the drivers died. Later in the day, the APD issued mug shots of two men in the incident: Benny Sitinjak, 34,…
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…
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…
Today’s Denver Post story about onetime biking champ and former Durango resident Missy Giove, who’s been charged by federal authorities in relation to the seizure of about 400 pounds of marijuana in New York state, doesn’t qualify as breaking news. The bust took place in mid-June, and the Post was…
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…
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…
As noted in a blog yesterday, operating-room tech/accused hepatitis-C passer Kristen Parker’s public comments about the possible infection of patients at two different Colorado medical facilities were limited to quotes in the criminal complaint against her: The most vivid line was, “I know, I fucked up.” Now, Channel 4 has…
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…
Since news broke about the arrest of former University of Northern Colorado theater professor Vance Fulkerson, who’s been charged with sexual exploitation of children in relation to a video system set up in his bathroom, plenty of alumni have stepped up to share their experiences. However, no account I’ve stumbled…
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…
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…
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…
