It may have simply been emotion talking, spurring Fern Delise to mention something she had no intention of putting into action. But given the concerns about violence in the wake of the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood shootings — exemplified by killer Robert Dear’s courtroom declaration yesterday that he is a “warrior…
Police suspect that Colorado Springs’ Marjorie Dietrich and her boyfriend, Ryan Kollman, sold MDMA, a drug nicknamed Molly, to Megan Pacheco, age seventeen, earlier this year. Pacheco later died after taking the substance. Now, Dietrich has pleaded guilty to a drug-related offense. And while the substance she’ll be punished for…
It’s not often when parents and students rally on behalf of a person accused of wielding a gun at a school. But that’s the case for nineteen-year-old Elhadji Samba Dioum, known by his friends and family as Samba. Dioum was arrested and formally charged after what’s been described as a robbery…
In the wake of Robert Dear’s attack on a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood facility, which killed three people and injured nine, we noted the response of one anti-pot crusader to reports that Dear was a marijuana enthusiast. Specifically, Christine Tatum, a writer and wife of Dr. Christian Thurstone, among the most…
Last year, we told you about the federal murder charge against Harold Henthorn, who was accused of killing his wife, Dr. Toni Henthorn, via a 2012 fall at Rocky Mountain National Park that was originally ruled an accident. We also told you about a renewed investigation into the death of…
The Colorado Department of Corrections has committed to spending more than $4.7 million to build outdoor recreation areas at the state’s highest-security prison. The move is in response to a class-action lawsuit brought by prisoners in lockdown at the Colorado State Penitentiary and a federal judge’s ruling that conditions at…
Last week, we told you about the fatal police shooting of Phillip Munoz in an incident that wounded SWAT officer John Ruddy. Since then, plenty of disturbing information has surfaced about Munoz. His estranged wife had detailed his abusive past, which apparently was repeated in a subsequent relationship. At the…
Our roundups of each month’s most memorable mug shots frequently feature unsettling images. But November’s top booking photos may be our most disturbing collection to date. While not every pic here is menacing, plenty of them qualify as flat-out chilling — and not only because they include a man accused…
Early this morning, a double shooting took place outside Montview Bar & Grill in Aurora, near the intersection of Montview Boulevard and Nome Street. The victims were a man and a woman. The latter died as a result of her injuries — and thus far, there’s no information about arrests…
In a day and age when every police shooting is carefully scrutinized, the Aurora Police Department is going to unusual measures to prove that the killing of a man early yesterday morning was justified. The department staged a press conference, released audio related to the incident and shared an extremely…
Chris Jacobson’s tantrum after being arrested for driving under the influence last month would have been epic under any circumstances. After all, the Aspen Times reports that the assorted fits he threw in jail — all of which were captured on video viewable below — caused in the area of $15,000…
Thornton resident Marliese Schreiber, 27, has been hit with multiple charges of child abuse related to the bathtub drowning death of her six-month-old daughter, Nessa Muniz. But the arrest affidavit in the case suggests that Schrieber initially tried to shift blame onto one of her two other kids (ages one…
Yesterday afternoon, less than a week after an officer-involved shooting in Aurora that resulted in the death of a suspect — subsequently identified as Tuan Hoang — a similar incident took place in Denver. In both instances, a police officer was injured. The Aurora case involved a cop who was…
Robert Dear’s attack on a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, which killed three people and injured nine, was certainly an extreme act of violence. But it’s hardly an isolated one. The Reddit Mass Shootings Tracker has been tallying incidents throughout 2015 during which at least four people were killed or…
Syed Farook and Tashfeen Malik, the reportedly married couple suspected of murdering fourteen people and injuring seventeen others during a mass shooting in San Bernardino, California yesterday, were killed by police. Robert Dear, the gunman in the assault on a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood on November 27, was taken into custody alive…
A good friend and fellow taxi driver says Darren Bloomquist was an Air Force veteran who began moonlighting as a cabbie to make extra money for his family — and, in particular, for his wife, who’s disabled. A statement from Metro Taxi adds that Bloomquist “was personable, good humored and…
The Denver Police Department loves stupid criminal stories, and so do we. That explains why we’ve featured the DPD’s tales of moronic ne’er-do-wells on two previous occasions — our original post in January and a sequel in June. The latest posts, as shared on the department’s Facebook page, include stories about…
In August 2014, we told you about the arrest of Daniel Stetzel, who was accused of stabbing his mom, Kathleen Stetzel, with a screwdriver and then strangling her following an argument over cigarettes. Days later came a new revelation: Stetzel had escaped from a halfway house before the murder, but authorities…
Yesterday, Sydney White appeared in court on charges related to the death of Angel Place, an eleven-month-old who died in her care last year. According to police reports on view below, White told investigators that she accidentally dropped Angel, then shook her so violently one of her two biological kids…
As we noted in our coverage of the Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood attack, the alleged shooter, Robert Dear, reportedly shared apocalyptic rants on the Cannabis.com website approximately a decade ago and also posted a sex ad that noted his interest in marijuana use. But did pot use play a role…
In September, D’Andre Mayfield posted the photo above — a shot from a somber grave-site visit. Mere months later, Mayfield lost his life under violent circumstances — and services in his memory are scheduled to take place this week. Mayfield was shot and killed on November 23. Kenneth Banks, twenty,…
James “Caz” Bzdek, the man behind Dueling Pianos Road Show, has been a well-known figure on the entertainment scene in Denver and the region for years. Now, however, he’s getting the kind of publicity that can hardly be termed good for business. He and an associate, Bethany Concha, have been…
