For more than a year, numerous major Denver LGBTQ venues have received regular reports about crimes at or near their establishments and others like them across the Denver metro area. But while the data is drawn from Denver Police Department statistics, DPD representatives aren’t compiling or distributing it. The person…
Update: Last December, we reported about the arrest of Anthony Sena. As we reported, a months-long search conducted by the family of 77-year-old victim Susan Hernandez had led straight to him — her own grandson. Our previous coverage has been incorporated into this post. At the time Sena was taken into…
Today’s Schmuck of the Week lesson: Schmuckiness can be stealthy. Take Kari Aaeng, a 54-year-old from Aspen who hardly fits the image of a chronic drunk driver. Which is precisely what she is. Aaeng was recently arrested for driving while just shy of four times over the legal intoxication limit…
In October 2014, Jack Jacquez was killed by James Ashby, a member of the Rocky Ford Police Department. Afterward, Ashby was charged with murder — a rare occurrence for a police officer whose actions had taken place while he was on the job. Yet the shooting didn’t get much national…
Update: In late January 2015, we reported about what may be the single most disturbing series of sexual assault allegations to ever appear in this space. Grand Junction’s Larry Church was accused of victimizing nine people between the ages of six and 21, seven of them minors. Our previous coverage has…
How in the hell did a suspect in a public urination case lead to a chase involving a Boulder deputy, a subsequent car crash and a brief standoff situation resolved following the deployment of a BearCat, an armored personnel carrier originally designed for military use? It’s complicated. The incident, which…
Update: A jury has acquitted Clarence Moses-El of all charges related to an August 1987 sexual assault. Moses-El consistently insisted that he was innocent of the charges against him, and another man, LC Jackson, confessed in a 2012 letter; see our previous coverage below. But Moses-El spent 28 years in prison…
Update: A few months back, we told you about the quizzical decision by John Bowlen, son of Denver Broncos owner Pat Bowlen, to appeal his wrist-slap of a conviction in a domestic-violence harassment incident last year based on a technicality; see our previous coverage below. That appeal has now been rejected…
A halfway house operation in Colorado Springs, where two men died from suspected drug overdoses last month, has also been sharply criticized by state and county officials for bungling two separate investigations into sexual misconduct among its residents. The same company recently fired an employee who was suspected of “assisting clients in altering urine samples” that are required as part of mandatory drug-testing for felons making a transition from prison to the community.
In March 2015, we published multiple posts about the fatal shooting of Naeschylus Vinzant by Aurora police officer Paul Jerothe, a veteran of nearly a decade on the force who has been lauded for his actions in the wake of the 2012 Aurora theater shooting. Vinzant was unarmed at the time he…
In an interview with Westword published yesterday, Denver District Attorney Mitch Morrissey, who wrote a letter of support for an anti-marijuana legalization measure up for vote in California next week, said he believes legal pot has contributed to a crime increase in Colorado, including more homicides. But he acknowledged that…
There have been no shortage of lawsuits filed in Colorado of late that claim excessive police force, with most of them, including those put forward by the families of the late Ryan Ronquillo and Joseph Valverde, involving guns. In contrast, the complaint pressed by Jeffrey Tomlinson focuses on a different…
Update: We first reported about the arrest of William Amaya for the murder of his aunt and uncle in July 2014; our previous coverage has been incorporated into this post. It’s appropriate that we tell you about the resolution of the case on Halloween. The crime itself was horrifying, and Amaya…
A new report by two of Colorado’s premiere investigative reporters indicates that former Boulder District Attorney Mary Lacy misrepresented DNA evidence in the JonBenét Ramsey investigation in order to clear her parents and her brother of any suspicion in the six-year-old’s 1996 murder. That revelation is unsettling enough, but it also…
Update: Four years ago next month, thirteen-year-old Dylan Redwine disappeared in southwestern Colorado, where he’d traveled for a court-ordered visit with his father, Mark Redwine. His body was found in June 2013, and just over two years later, Mark was named a person-of-interest in the case, which was belatedly ruled…
Update: The prosecution of Air Force cadet Jack Warmolts for an alleged sexual assault in Boulder last year has been marked by controversy, including a judge’s decision to give the defense team the new address of the victim, who’d moved out of state after the incident; see our previous coverage below…
Update: In May, as we reported at the time, social media busted Katrina Kennedy, also known as Katrina Kennedy-Flores, before the police did after a disturbing child-abuse video went viral. Our previous coverage has been incorporated into this post. Now, Kennedy has pleaded guilty in the matter, and while the count…
Update: In two separate posts published in May 2015, we reported about the arrest of Eric Fuhs, Derek Webb and Chad Baluska for the murder of 61-year-old Samuel Grady, Fuhs’s uncle. Our previous coverage has been incorporated into this post. More than a year later, Fuhs, nicknamed “Ice,” has been sentenced…
Update: Around this time in 2015, we revealed the ten most frequently stolen cars in Colorado according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s annual “Hot Wheels” list, which covered calendar year 2014. Now, the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association has published data about Colorado thieves’ favorite targets in 2015, and many of the same…
The City of Trinidad has reached a $375,000 settlement in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Colorado on behalf of two women who were arrested three years ago in a botched drug-sting investigation that involved fabricated evidence and an informant paid to make busts. The city has also quietly…
George Brauchler is seeking reelection as district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, but it’s not exactly a race. The Democrats didn’t bother putting up a candidate for the office, and even if they had, Brauchler, a GOP up-and-comer who flirted with a U.S. Senate run before changing his mind, would…
Donald Trump Jr. made plenty of news during his visit to Colorado this week — a lot of it embarrassing or worse. Junior was denied a campaign stop at the Sink in Boulder around the same time that remarks surfaced about a joke he’d made about the Aurora theater shooting. On…
