View Larger Map Late on July 4, Denver Police officers responded to a call at 14954 East Elk Place in Montbello, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). There, they found two men suffering from gunshot wounds: one dead,…
In Denver, most of the coverage about Kristen Parker, an operating-room technician who’s been charged with exposing patients to hepatitis C for swapping dirty syringes filled with saline for new ones loaded with the painkiller fentanyl, has focused on her time at Rose Medical Center. However, she also worked at…
View Larger Map Most of us were able to celebrate Independence Day without capping each other — but not everyone. Earlier today, we told you about a slaying late yesterday on the 1700 block of Billings Street in Aurora. Now comes word from the Denver Police Department about an exchange…
View Larger Map One of the loud noises heard by people living in the vicinity of 1700 Billings Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”), wasn’t caused by Fourth of July fireworks. It was a gunshot that left…
I have very few rules in life. Don’t eat ice cream right before bed, unless you want heartburn. Don’t watch Jimmy Fallon right before bed, unless you want heartburn. And never, ever, under any circumstances, get high and drunk on a Monday night and have a threesome with another dude…
Armed robbers are almost invariably armed with the same thing: a gun. Bo-ring! But nineteen-year-old Dylan Lee Suomi reportedly took a different tack Tuesday night when he decided to boost some Oxycontin from a Glendale Walgreens, using a samurai sword. Can’t say this switcheroo was all that successful: He managed…
Get your mace ready, flight attendants. Westword’s favorite Shmuck of the Week recipient, Christina Szele, will have the opportunity to continue her reign of shmuckiness far sooner than many observers expected. Szele won her first shmuck “honor” in June 2008, when she engaged in “thrashing,” “cursing,” “kicking,” “screaming,” “punching,” “stomping”…
On Wednesday, the Englewood Police Department revealed that a body had been found in an alley near the intersection of East Oxford Avenue and South Lincoln Street, an area captured in a graphic embedded after the jump (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Moments ago,…
Earlier this week, the Aurora Police Department announced the arrest of Steaven Henry Moore in a May 21 shooting on the 3900 block of S. Quatar Street, an area captured in a graphic embedded after the jump (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). In addition,…
Last week, Velma Lee Gilbert was arrested in connection with a homicide on the 1300 block of Xanadu Street, an area captured in a graphic embedded after the jump (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Now, the Aurora Police Department has identified the victim: Jospeh…
New Options Wellness Clinic, a Boulder marijuana dispensary, had a real buzzkill last week when a group of robbers held up the operation and made off with two large tubs of marijuana. Things are looking up this week, however. Not only have the police identified four suspects in connection with…
View Larger Map On June 23, the Denver Coroner’s Office identified Morrail Bell as the man who died in a June 21 shooting at 12565 E. Albrook Drive, in an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Subsequently, the office…
View Larger Map The Mile High Murder ticker may move upward again today, as the Sheridan Police Department is investigating what it describes as a “possible homicide.” Yesterday, a body was discovered in a car parked on the 3100 block of South Dale Court, an area captured in the graphic…
View Larger Map The Denver Police Department has released information about arrests in the slayings of Christian Hernandez and Eduardo Sanchez, who died from their injuries during a June 22 double shooting at the Glen Apartments, 9600 E. Girard, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems…
View Larger Map This just in from the Englewood Police Department: An investigation is ongoing into the death of a man found in an alley near the intersection of East Oxford Avenue and South Lincoln Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image,…
The three-bedroom, two-bath house at 13620 Plaster Circle in Broomfield currently for sale for $317,000 sounds like a pretty good place. “Updated ranch style home in very good condition,” reads the online description for the 1,752-square-foot residence, noting there are vaulted ceilings, slab granite counter tops, even a full basement…
View Operation Fortune Cookie: Geography of a pot bust in a larger map On February 16, 2008, more than a hundred law enforcement officers up and down the northern Front Range launched Operation Fortune Cookie, a multi-day raid on dozens of marijuana grow houses in the north metro area that…
We get so many letters from prisoners proclaiming their innocence of any and all misdeeds that it’s curiously refreshing when one admits that he did something wrong. Wrong and dumb. So this recent, neatly typed apology from Charles W. Wimberly, resident of a federal prison in Tucson, caught our attention:…
Terry Nichols, who was convicted in the Denver-based Oklahoma City bombing trial and sentenced to life in prison at Colorado’s supermax facility, has a lot of time on his hands — and he’s been filling it for much of 2009 with legal filings in which he complains about the food…
View Larger Map Weekends and evenings tend to spawn more violence than weekday mornings — but today was an unfortunate exception. Just past 9 a.m. today, Denver Police arrived at 4914 North Enid Way, a residence captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View…
One man has been arrested and another is being sought in relation to a May 21 shooting at a home located on the 3900 block of S. Quatar Street. Steaven Henry Moore, 23, has been in custody since June 12, but the Aurora Police is still looking for the person…
View Larger Map One man died and one was critically injured in a June 21 shooting at 12565 E. Albrook Drive, in an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). The Denver Coroner’s Office has now identified the former as…
