Craigslist is a great way to sell stuff, whether it belongs to you or not. But eighteen-year-old Denzel O’Neal Crawford learned the service also gives ballsy crime victims the opportunity to reclaim their property. That’s precisely what Boulder’s Kathryn Lucas did with her stolen bicycle…
Decorative Concrete Finishes’ Anthony Harvey is the star and narrator of videos on his YouTube channel in which he and his crew reveal how an average backyard can be transformed into a showplace; see examples below. However, his current spotlight time doesn’t focus on his skills as an artisan, but…
In June, Matthew Weatherspoon claimed that he had repeatedly slashed a five-month-old bulldog puppy in the face out of self-defense. “I’m not a crocodile hunter,” he announced. Neither is he in jail — not now. But he’s been given thirty months of supervised mental health probation and more for the…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the latest iteration of the ultra-popular first-person shooter challenge in which a player must gun down opponents before they can splatter him with his own blood. Fortunately, most fans are able to separate fantasy from reality — but the jury’s still out on…
A federal judge has ruled that Darrell Havens can proceed with his lawsuit against the Arvada police officer who shot him during a car-theft sting operation in 2007, leaving him a quadriplegic. The decision has Havens’ attorneys poised to conduct a fresh investigation of the controversial case, in which they…
From what we understand from past scofflaws and couples who enjoy the use of restraints in the bedroom, being fitted with handcuffs can be painful. But probably not as painful as the special gift Peter VanVolkinburg is accused of giving a female police officer when she tried cuffing him –…
The details of criminal cases are often grabbier than the basic facts — literally so in the case of Lori Ann Waldo. Reporting to date about her arrest for allegedly putting the squeeze on a bar employee’s genitals missed what the victim says she planned to do with them, and…
The arrest affidavit pertaining to John Vasquez and Marie Marone is one of the most chilling documents you’re ever likely to read — which is appropriate given that their busts may finally close an eleven-year-old cold case. The allegation: that the couple killed a disabled woman, Renee Ealy, just to…
Famous rappers have it all — booze, bucks and broads. Phony rappers, on the other hand, take what they can get. And criminal phony rappers do it by force. Which brings us to Fernando Archuleta, who’s accused of using bogus rap credentials to rape a fourteen-year-old…
A twenty-year jolt for stealing gasoline? Seems a little excessive, doesn’t it? Then again, former state highway worker Jaime Perez didn’t just sneak a tank or two. He’s accused of fronting a giant fuel-swiping plot that cost Colorado more than $440,000…
An October 30 house fire claimed the lives of two young children — Alvira and Timothy Ramirez, ages two and three, respectively. Now, the Aurora Police has busted their mom, Danielle Lynn Brockman, on suspicion of child abuse/negligence resulting in death. The reason: The kids had reportedly been left home…
The police-report description of a rape committed back in 2008 is incredibly horrific — and so is the fact that no one was arrested for the crime for more than three years. Now, however, a cold-case hit points the DNA finger of blame at 31-year-old Manuel McGee. How was he…
Thus far, Charles Edward Waters, a 56-year-old homeless man, has not yet been formally charged in an early Friday double stabbing that left one man dead and another one wounded, and the victim has yet to be identified. But the police report, on view below, offers a brutal account of…
Update below: In April, convicted child molester Richard Carl Heeringa wound up in the number four slot on Denver’s list of the top 25 most violent fugitives. Then, in July, Heeringa was added to the U.S. Marshals Service’s 15 most wanted list for the entire country. This increased heat appears…
Wrestling — the real kind, not Hulk Hogan-style dramatics — can be a dangerous sport. But what’s even riskier? Drunk wrestling. That’s the argument made by a police report about the arrest of Richard Mastic, age 27, who was taken into custody on suspicion of assault with a deadly weapon…
Update, Monday, October 31: Willie Clark, who was convicted last year of murdering Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams, was found guilty again today — this time of murdering a witness named Kalonniann Clark (no relation) in 2006. Clark was sentenced to life in prison plus 424 years for the murder. He’s…
Nick Beram did everything he could to disguise himself while robbing five area banks while armed with a stun gun. During the crimes, he wore sunglasses, a dark-hooded jacket and a white surgical or dust mask. But he didn’t bother to disguise his truck — and that’s why he’s been…
Brandon Smith set out to steal an iPad shortly after the device’s release, and he did. That’s a relatively minor crime — so how did he wind up being sentenced to 25 years behind bars? By pretty much shredding the finger of the iPad purchaser, and then, after the act…
Moms teach their little girls all kinds of valuable lessons, and Cassandra Ghirardi is no exception. Problem is, Ghirardi’s tutorials allegedly involved identity theft, which, while profitable, carries the strong possibility of jail time for her and Alexandra Wilde, her daughter…
In the wild, predators don’t typically go out of their way to challenge the strongest opponents. Rather, they seek out the weakest members of the herd. Jeffrey Knouse has earned an extended stay at the Cross Bar Hotel for demonstrating this same sensibility on an 81-year-old man simply trying to…
It didn’t take long for El Paso Sheriff’s Office detectives to hone in on Mark Manyik as the shooter of Robert Miles, 55. Why? Manyik left a voicemail for a detective saying he planned to blast Miles in the belly using a shotgun, and that’s precisely what he’s accused of…
The guy juggling two dates at the same time is a sitcom staple, and it’s usually resolved in wacky fashion. But a happy ending seems unlikely in the case of Kevin Gaylor, who gave this plot a high-tech twist — by reporting a woman he’d “met” on Craigslist as a…
