Yesterday, September 3, George Roloff and fellow inmate Luke Tanner escaped from the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility in Cañon City, prompting a statewide alert. But Tanner was soon recaptured, followed a short time later by Roloff, who’d earned a sentence of more than 150 years for a bizarre crime spree he said was prompted in part by a fear of witchcraft.
A juror in the Michael Blagg murder trial last spring has filed a lawsuit against his employer, claiming that his supervisors pressured him to find a way to duck jury service — and retaliated against him after he spent six weeks on the panel that found Blagg guilty of killing his wife.
Moments ago, the Denver Police Department tweeted that a juvenile male had been arrested in the shooting of a student outside the DSST Cole Middle School campus on August 28, during the second week of the new academic year. The student who was shot in the incident remains in critical condition.
In fifteen counties in Colorado, the number of arrests for driving under the influence represents more than 1 percent of total population.
Right now, the arrest of Frederick’s Chris Watts for the murder of his pregnant wife Shanann Watts and their two daughters, three-year-old Celeste and four-year-old Bella, is one of the biggest stories in the country, with major cable channels regularly taking a break from their coverage of President Donald Trump’s latest tweets to go over the facts of the case known to date in forensic detail.
Jennie Bunsom has been identified as the sixteen-year-old being charged as an adult for the murder of Jordan Vong, her seven-year-old nephew. And a newly released probable-cause statement in the case maintains that she committed the act in the Montbello home they shared after he became frustrated over her refusal to play video games with him.
The Denver District Attorney’s office has announced that it will file murder and child abuse accusations in the death of Jordan Vong, a seven-year-old Montbello resident, against his sixteen-year-old aunt. Moreover, the teen will be charged as an adult.
Denver Police discovered three deceased individuals — two men and one woman — behind an 8,000-square-foot building. On Thursday afternoon, DPD revealed that they believe the victims were homeless.
But East Colfax still rates as more sketchy than South Broadway.
At a press conference this morning, representatives of the Aurora Police Department and other local law enforcement agencies confirmed that Alex Christopher Ewing, a 57-year-old prisoner in Nevada, where he’s serving time for brutally beating a couple with an ax handle, has been named in arrest warrants related to the 1984 hammer killings of Bruce, Debra and Melissa Bennett and the severe wounding of Vanessa Bennett, then age three, as well as the murder of Lakewood resident Patricia Louise Smith six days earlier.
At first, the Denver Police Department inquiry into the passing of seven-year-old Montbello resident Jordan Vong was termed a “death investigation.” But now, the DPD is revealing that a sixteen-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of first-degree murder.
On Friday, August 10, a news conference has been scheduled to discuss new developments in one of the metro area’s most tragic homicide cases: the 1984 hammer murders of parents Bruce and Debra Bennett and seven-year-old daughter Melissa, as well as horrific injuries sustained by the Bennetts’ three-year-old, Vanessa, who survived.
Late August 7, Denver Police Chief Paul Pazen confirmed that the body of seven-year-old Jordan Vong had been found.
Scarcely eighteen months after Colorado prison authorities began distributing 19,000 “free” electronic tablets to state prisoners, the devices have been confiscated because of “unforeseen security issues.”
The Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office has instituted a new protocol that allows people who had been taking Methadone and the like to help them kick their habit to keep doing so while they’re behind bars.
Colorado sex offender Travis Joe Benson was arrested in Greeley after falling into a trap set for him by members of Hunted & Confronted, a recently formed Facebook group whose mission involves bringing justice to “overage adults who pose a threat to society.” Afterward, most members of the press dubbed the crew vigilantes, but founder Jesse Weeks, 28, rejects that description.
The crazy tractor chase through downtown Denver starring suspect Thomas Busch on July 20 was a one-of-a-kind crime. So it’s only appropriate that prosecutors have taken a unique approach to explaining the rationale behind the whopping 23 charges that have now been filed against him.
Last week, Ricky Lee Harnish, the man convicted of killing Tammy Lani’s sister, Holly Andrews, when she was just sixteen years old, became a free man. He’s out of prison after just nine years “without parole or registration or anything,” Lani reveals.
According to new data provided by the Denver Police Department, dozens of these weapons are stolen in the Mile High City every month, adding up to hundreds over the course of a year.
On July 22, the short life of Thomas LaPerch came to a brutal end after he succumbed to injuries he sustained during a fight with another inmate while imprisoned at the Colorado State Penitentiary in Cañon City.
A federal judge is criticizing the University of Colorado Boulder for its actions regarding Pamela Fine, who filed a lawsuit last year over abuse allegedly suffered at the hands of former assistant football coach Joe Tumpkin. But he’s also ordered CU Boulder and its employees to be dropped from the complaint.
Zara Ahmed survived the Aurora theater shooting. But as a Somali-American, she must now confront the Trump administration travel ban.
