Early on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, a body was reportedly discovered in Grant-Frontier Park. Now, the Denver coroner’s office has identified the man as Michael Martinez — and has determined that the cause of death was homicide…
Tough to miss the irony: After his arrest for allegedly trying to trade meth for sex with a male acquaintance, Pat Sullivan was incarcerated in the Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility, the jail named for him after a distinguished law enforcement career capped by eighteen years as Arapahoe County…
The allegation is shocking: Colorado Springs Police believe Marcus Smith, 21, killed Kathryn “Kit” Grazioli, an 87-year-old former church deacon, and burned her body. This act contrasts strongly with an apology letter he wrote in regard to the theft of a computer and DVDs two years ago…
Sure, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is a holiday classic. But wouldn’t it be even better with a car crash and an on-foot police chase? Judge for yourself after hearing the seasonal tale of Vincente Romero, who’s accused of Grinchy behavior and vehicular mayhem that had nothing to do with…
All too often, we hear allegations about teachers like Terah Rawlings perving on underage students. But a kid being lured into an illicit relationship with a school janitor? Does that really happen? Longmont Police officers think so, at least in the case of 24-year-old Travis Bowden and his reported victim,…
Occupy protesters kept occupied over Thanksgiving week. While Occupy Wall Street crews prepared to descend on Black Friday shoppers, Thunderdome supporters greeted Governor John Hickenlooper and Mayor Michael Hancock at the Denver Rescue Mission…and Boulder cops had their own welcoming committee for the Occupy Boulder demonstrators, rousting them for their…
Last week, the Denver Police Department warned the public “to be vigilant and report suspicious activity while in the downtown area,” reporting that there have been fifteen robberies or assaults in the past few months, often involving more than one person. Three of those fifteen happened at the same location:…
News that reporter Deborah Sherman is out at 9News — and the dearth of details as to why — has dragged disgraced doctor Louis Hampers into the news again. Sherman claims former ER doc Hampers stalked her after she broke a second date with him. In a civil lawsuit she…
On Sunday night, four Larimer County Jail inmates allegedly squirted a feces-and-urine blend at deputies using shampoo bottles, causing a significant flood in the process. Unprecedented? Not according to Larimer County Sheriff’s Office public information officer John Schulz, who says such coordination is uncommon, but not the use of bodily…
The arrest in Chicago of Father Richard James Kurtz, a Jesuit priest, for alleged sex assault on an underage male victim in Colorado is disturbing, obviously, but also puzzling. After all, the crime was reportedly committed and reported to authorities in 2001. So why did it take a decade to…
In June, avid bicyclist Eugene Howrey, age 73, was struck and killed by a dump truck driven by Christopher Loven, a man with a number of past run-ins with pedalers. In the years prior to the Lowrey tragedy, he was allegedly involved in two separate bike-rage incidents. Months later, the…
Update below: It didn’t take long for the Colorado Springs Police Department to draw a bead on the man captured by security cameras robbing a branch of the Indispensary medical marijuana center. Robert Cody James, nineteen, is currently in custody, due in part to his decision to stick around the…
The accusation that teacher Terah Rawlings had an ongoing sexual relationship with a fifteen-year-old student is bad enough. But other circumstances push the alleged crime into even creepier territory. For one thing, Rawlings was employed at a religious school. For another, administrators are said to have known about the issue…
There’s a reason raccoons wear masks. They’re natural bandits. But there’s a better way of dealing with such a rapscallion than beating him to death with a bat and then skewering him with a machete — which is precisely what three students, including Nicholas Foti (whose Facebook page features some…
Talk about a timely crime. During the run-up to the release of the sure-to-suck Breaking Dawn — Part 1, a woman thought to be Emi Coleman allegedly took the vampire craze a little too personally. She’s accused of biting two people on the neck during a visit to a convenience…
Update: It was a terrible story — a report that two small dogs, named Latte and Swag, were found dead on Sunday morning, apparently after having been shot to death by a BB gun or small caliber weapon. But appearances can be deceiving. After the Denver Police Department offered a…
Update below: Most of us don’t need to be told not to take hallucinogens before going rock climbing. But apparently Jon Schuttenberg is an exception to this rule. Rescuers called to help him and a buddy as they headed to the First Flatiron found them endangered mainly by their loopy…
Update: On November 4, Thomas Bashline, a 42-year-old who occasionally worked as a trainer for the Harlem Globetrotters, was found murdered in his Frederick home. Speculation about a motive included allusions to a Bashline side business testing athletes for performance enhancing drugs. But now, Fox31 is reporting that a suspect…
According to a witness, Devon Weinstein deliberately broke the legs of a seven-month-old girl, Faith Woodward. He was originally given a 21-year jolt for his crimes. But now, a judge has reduced his sentence, making it possible he could be set free as soon as next year. Why? That’s what…
A terrifying scene unfolded during the early hours of this morning in Lakewood. Information is still being gathered. But at this writing, we know that a man allegedly took two women hostage at knifepoint, precipitating a tense standoff involving police that ended with the accused and his victims hospitalized, albeit…
What to do if you’ve called 911 about two men about to break into your house but the cops haven’t arrived? One Colorado Springs woman responded by screaming — loudly — as captured on a police recording below. And the tactic worked, as cops managed to collar a pair of…
As a Grand Junction native, I can assure you that the Western Slope town has never been known as the Naked City — and it won’t now, despite the exploits of Leslie Lind, who allegedly committed a robbery while displaying his moneymaker and a lot more. The reason? Lind kept…
