Police & Law Enforcement

The Denver Police Department has identified the homicide victim in a shooting on the 1400 block of Market Street early on September 28 as Lucardio Kroener, a 28-year-old security guard.

A double shooting took place in Lower Downtown during the early morning hours of September 28, just twelve days after a triple shooting about a block away.

Dr. Christine Blasey Ford waited to for decades to talk, and I know why.

An incident from April still hangs over the RiseUp Community School.

NBC’s Dateline takes on the case of Scott Kimball and the still-missing woman he’s admitted to killing.

Police reports reveal why two brothers were arrested for a Lower Downtown Denver triple shooting.

Maurice Butler is accused of killing 28-year-old Nicole Boston, 39-year-old Jerome Coronado and 45-year-old Christopher Zamudio.

Denver’s DA has prevailed over a colleague in a dispute over sentencing of juvenile lifers.

Two men and one woman were shot near 15th and Market, a Lower Downtown location that came as no surprise to one person on Twitter.

A high profile mistrial could impact Republican nominee George Brauchler in the Colorado Attorney General race.

There are some 226 High Activity Location Observation, or HALO, cameras in Denver

Colorado has been warehousing the mentally ill in jails for months at a time without bothering to evaluate their condition or ordering any treatment that might help them.

“A lot of these things that are, frankly, public-health concerns are being addressed in the criminal justice system, and shouldn’t be,” says the ACLU.

Denver police have arrested a suspect in the stabbing death of East High School football star Reese Grant-Cobb.

The Colorado Department of Corrections will spend $41 million over two years to provide life-saving drugs to 2200 prisoners who’ve been diagnosed with chronic hepatitis C.

The three victims were all homeless, but there’s much more to their story.

More often that not, those of us who live in Denver and other sizable communities in Colorado and beyond are being watched by cameras maintained by each municipality and mounted in busy public areas. Now, cops in one Front Range community want to expand the network by supplementing their own surveillance gadgets with privately owned ones.

The Denver Police Department has arrested and named a suspect in the shooting deaths of three individuals experiencing homelessness whose bodies were found in early August near the South Broadway and I-25 interchange.

The Denver District Attorney’s Office has announced that the fourteen-year-old suspect in the August 28 shooting of a student outside the DSST Cole Middle School has been charged with felony first-degree assault and a misdemeanor gun-possession count in juvenile court. But with the victim still in critical condition more than a week after the incident, a spokesperson for Denver DA Beth McCann is non-committal about a possible transfer to adult court should the situation change.

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.