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…
The accusations levied against University of Northern Colorado theater professor Vance Fulkerson are grotesque in the extreme: Earlier this week, he was charged with sexual exploitation of children related to a video system set up in (wait for it) his bathroom. And charges that UNC took no action against Fulkerson…
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…
Here’s a crime that really stinks: Wheat Ridge Police are on the lookout for a man who poured raw sewage directly from his camper into a drain leading to a retention pond near Wheat Ridge High School. No big deal? Well, Wheat Ridge authorities say it could take six weeks…
View Larger Map A man shot and killed July 4 on the 1700 block of Billings Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”), has been identified as forty-year-old Aurora resident Macwinston Dowthard. At this point, that’s pretty much…
View Larger Map Information has been dribbling out about a robbery attempt at a cigarette and check-cashing store at 9445 E. Colfax that resulted in one man being fatally shot; the area is captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Now,…
Outrage continues to build over Kristen Parker, a surgical tech who was formally charged in federal court yesterday with multiple counts related to the exposure of patients at Rose Medical Center to hepatitis-C. The main story on the Denver Post’s front page relates to the startling delay in linking Parker…
View Larger Map As noted in a blog yesterday, an Aurora Police Department release about a robbery and shooting on East Colfax was as vague as vague could be. The document didn’t even make it clear how many stick-up artists were involved — just that a man left leaking blood…
