On a Sunday night in November, four Larimer County Jail inmates allegedly squirted feces and urine at deputies using shampoo bottles, flooding part of the facility and starting what officials called a riot. Now, the four men in question have been identified and charged with nine separate counts that could…
Our 2011 mug shot showcase rolls on. Yesterday, we shared our picks for the year’s ten most intimidating images. Now, cast your eyes on celebrities and notables who earned booking photos of their own, featuring several past and present Denver Broncos (what would Timmy say?), a Hollywood star having a…
This week’s cover story, “The Case of the Kidnapped Coed,” revisits the wild press coverage surrounding the 1948 murder of eighteen-year-old college student Theresa Foster — and explores how the Denver Post’s rabid campaign to catch a killer tainted the subsequent trial. It’s a cautionary tale about how pseudo-experts (in…
In 2003, Heather DeWild disappeared two days before her divorce was to be finalized, and she was found dead weeks later. From the beginning, suspicion fell on her supposed-to-be-ex, Daniel, but no arrests were made — until now. Daniel, his twin brother David and David’s wife Roseanne, have all been…
It’s that time again, when we round up the most memorable mug shots of the year. We’ll share a slew of collections for the next couple of weeks, leading up to our top choices — an array so hefty that a single blog post won’t be able to contain them…
Glen Godec’s Photobucket page features well over 1,000 images, most seemingly benign. But the closer you look, the more you notice that the preponderance of shots feature little girls — a fact that’s been rendered ultra-creepy by news that Godec has been busted on a couple of sex-crime charges in…
It started as a routine domestic-violence report. But there was nothing routine about what followed: a standoff between David Orton and thirteen police officers that went on for a lead-filled four hours. Orton’s reward: a 180-year prison sentence. Here are the details that earned Orton two generous lifetimes behind bars…
In October, Marc O’Leary pleaded guilty to brutally raping three women, including a 65-year-old, and attempting to do the same to a fourth who dove out a window to escape. He’s now received his punishment: 327-and-a-half years in prison. And as is clear from the account below, he more than…
Update: Just heard from Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office spokesman Mark Techmeyer about the arrests last week of Cannabis & Co. owner Dmitry Genzer and associate Joseph Alejo, and the seizure of around 175 pounds of weed. In the process, we discovered some misinformation. Techmeyer says the busts came not as…
When Army recruit Matt Strickland was assigned to spend a month training in Louisiana in preparation for overseas deployment, he reportedly trusted his girlfriend, Melissa Alexander, to care for his one-year-old daughter. The decision had fatal consequences: The tot’s dead and Alexander faces a possible first-degree murder charge…
Last month, we told you about the arrest of Anthony Harvey, home-decor expert and alleged drug-ring leader, as part of a law-enforcement operation dubbed Project White Out. Now, another of the accused participants in the scheme, Jimmie Joe Montgomery, has been taken into custody as well — but only after…
Zachary Meints, a volunteer coach for the youth-oriented Boulder Hockey Club, was arrested yesterday on five Internet sexual exploitation of a child counts — a disturbing development by any measure. But equally troubling for parents of team members is evidence that club officials knew about the allegations for two months…
Shortly after Boulder deputy Rick Ferguson’s arrest for Internet luring and sexual exploitation of a child, one of his colleagues was personally involved in a crime, too — but as a victim, not the alleged perpetrator. He was burglarized, and the thief or thieves got away with lotsa tools of…
Rick Ferguson was a member of the Boulder Sheriff’s Office for thirty years — an impressive run by any measure. But it’s come to an end, at least for now, and in an extremely distressing way. This week, Ferguson was arrested on five counts, most pertaining to Internet luring of…
Ex-Arapahoe County Sheriff Pat Sullivan, busted for allegedly trading meth for sex, has now bonded out of the Patrick J. Sullivan Detection Facility, a jail named for him. But officials still plan to revisit the policy of naming public buildings after living people. And Commissioner Rod Bockenfeld thinks honoring dead…
At one time or another, we’ve all wondered if the average person cares about our personal welfare. But Noah Miranda allegedly took things a step further, conducting a survey on the question. One person at a time. In the middle of a street. In the dark. While drunk…
Update, 10:09 a.m.: The Denver coroner’s office has no identified the man who died after a report of a shooting on Robins Drive last Friday. The victim was Dwayne Morris, eighteen. He died six hours or so after being transported to Children’s Hospital with a gunshot wound to the neck…
Martin Lobatos must be a really good driver, because he passed his test with no sweat when he was supposedly on the verge of catatonia. That was par for the course in one of the weirdest-ever workman’s comp cases — a years-long scam for which Lobatos and his wife, Belen,…
There’s a lot of weirdness circling around 32-year-old Scott Mendias. Right now, he’s recovering from a gunshot wound at the hands of police after he allegedly reached for what turned out to be a toy weapon — an incident only slightly less bizarre than one that had landed him behind…
It’s been a crazy month for Colorado crime, and we’ve got the mug shots to prove it. Page down below to see pics of everyone from the woman who grabbed a bar staffer’s balls in a way that went beyond friendliness to the former Arapahoe County sheriff behind bars in…
Disconnects are common in the Pat Sullivan story — first due to the contrast between his former image as a nationally recognized Arapahoe County sheriff and allegations that he traded meth for sex, and now as a result of his first court appearance, in which the little old man tottering…
As owner of Off Leash Dog Training in Loveland, Ryan Matthews boasted about the effectiveness of his methods. In fact, the last four digits of the business’ phone number spelled out the word “OBEY.” Turns out, though, that his approach to schooling his own dog wasn’t just questionable but criminal…
