Update: The Denver Police Department has released a booking photo of Taylor Jo Mathis, the 21-year-old who’s accused of having been behind the wheel during an ugly hit-and-run. The crash, which seriously injured two people, was caught on surveillance video on view below. See a larger version of Mathis’s mug…
Most of the attention for Wednesday’s fourteen arrests in a Colfax prostitution sweep has focused on Darren Garcia, who presents herself as a woman and is HIV-positive. Garcia’s eight previous busts include two for the crime of prostitution with the knowledge of AIDS, and she was convicted of a felony…
“My options are narrowing,” says Charles Farrar, phoning from the Sterling Correctional Facility. And so they are. Farrar has just learned that his handwritten appeal of his 145-year sentence for child sexual abuse — a series of crimes that his accuser now insists never happened — has been rejected by…
Update:This morning, the Aurora Police Department is revealing that William Moore, thirty, has been arrested in connection with the January 18 homicide of Ebon Kelly, 29. The charges for which Moore is being held and investigated include second-degree murder and possession of a weapon by a previous offender…
Update: A just-released indictment related to Operation Sweet Leaf, in which 25 metro-area marijuana grows were raided, names 22-year-old Jordan Buehrer as the alleged ringleader of the scheme — although Buehrer’s LinkedIn profile suggests another name. The bare-bones page lists him as the owner of “jordans enterprises.”…
Update: We now know the name of the second person killed in a quadruple shooting at the Timberland Apartments in Colorado Springs on Tuesday: Andrew Encalade, age 23. If that name sounds familiar, it should. His older brother Adam, age 26, was injured in the gunplay but survived…
The sentencing hearing for former ER doc Louis Hampers has been delayed once again. Charged with writing 654 phony prescriptions in 2009 and 2010, Hampers pleaded guilty this past July to much less: fourteen counts of prescription drug fraud. His sentencing hearing was rescheduled from October to tomorrow, but it’s…
The most recent posts on the Caleb Pacheco (Wheres Caleb) Facebook page are haunting in the extreme. Why? The messages are paired with the photo of a child who’s most likely dead, and has been for months — and now, his mother, Sterling’s Juanita Kinzie, 24, has been arrested on…
Nineteen members of the Hell’s Lovers motorcycle gang appeared in court yesterday — so many that the suspects reportedly filled the jury box and flooded into the front-row area reserved for observers. That’s the scope of federal indictments on view below, which allege a slew of charges involving drugs, weapons,…
The more information that surfaces about Pueblo’s Jose Garcia, the creepier the allegations against him become. In addition to accusations that he prompted an Amber Alert by grabbing nine-year-old Calysta Cordova, who escaped, he’s been charged in a second sex assault on a child…
Last year, we told you about a Weekend at Bernie’s homage involving Mark Rubinson, Robert Young and a dead body — a joy ride that inspired Shotgun Willie’s to offer no cover for corpses after 7 p.m. Rubinson and Young have now pleaded guilty for the romp, which will likely…
The prospect of being stopped by what you think is a police officer, only to discover too late that it’s actually a vicious criminal, helps explain why Larimer County Sheriff’s Office took Heather Speicher’s report about being sexually assaulted by a cop impersonator so seriously. And why the LCSO is…
Update:There have been some new developments in the tragic story of Jenna Breen, who was killed in a hit-and-run accident with Viet Nguyen, a man with three previous DUI arrests. Below, get more information about the search for possible witnesses (or perhaps additional suspects), a fund in Jenna’s name, a…
We’ve written about plenty of accused cancer fakers over the years, including Ann Crall, Tausha Marsh and, earlier today, Jennifer Stover. But while the motives in these cases appear to revolve around money, it’s hard to know what Mark Royer intended when he informed relatives about a bogus diagnosis shortly…
People drawn to hospice care are typically very sympathetic. That’s basically a job requirement. So it’s no surprise that Jennifer Stover’s co-workers at Collier Hospice in Wheat Ridge offered her financial support when they found out she’d been diagnosed with cancer. Problem is, she never was…
Three years ago, Alex Landau became a symbol of sorts for racial inequality and police brutality in Denver. Three years ago, Denver police officers pulled Landau over for an alleged illegal left turn, and it was not long after that they beat him bloody. But that was three years ago,…
The use of private prisons by states and the federal government continues to increase, yielding billions in annual revenues for two dominant companies in the industry — despite a lack of solid research that America’s experiment with for-profit incarceration actually saves taxpayers money in the long run…
Should peace officers be certified after passing a take-home exam? The answer to that question is provided by the prosecution of Julie Carleen Johnson-Garcia, who allegedly allowed two wannabe cops who’d flunked a pair of previous tests to take the third at home. And that’s not all…
Three years ago on Sunday, police officers pulled over Alex Landau, then nineteen, for taking an illegal left turn onto Emerson. They then beat him bloody. Although Landau received one of the city’s largest police brutality settlements in May — $795,000 — his story remains a chilling example of racial…
Our most recent choice for Shmuck of the Week was Englewood teacher Alexandra McLean, who allegedly cozied up to a student in a car following a performance of Lend Me a Tenor. Shocking? Sure, but not all that surprising. The last year has included an unfair share of local reports…
Last summer’s wild multi-state crime spree by the Dougherty Gang — two scary-looking brothers and their stripper sister — understandably drew some superheated media coverage, what with Lee-Grace Dougherty’s online bikini shots and all. But the story fizzled shortly after the trio’s brief rampage ended in a police chase and…
At first, the June 2009 murder of Billy Ortiz, age 21, seemed apt to be lost in the shuffle. But pressure from his family and friends kept the heat on. Now, at last, Richard Impellizine, 22, has been found guilty of what the indictment against him portrays as an incredibly…
