Update: The Denver medical examiner has now identified the person found dead at 2371 Monaco as Larry Buerman, 53. He died of a stab wound to the chest. Yesterday, the Denver Police Department was unwilling to identify the incident as a crime — but the coroner’s office displays no such…
Last year, former Broomfield High School wrestling coach Travis Masse was accused of sexual assault on a child, a crime for which he was subsequently sentenced to life in prison — although he’s eligible for parole in ten years. Now Masse’s being sued by three former students who also target…
The February murders of Amara Wells and Bob Rafferty were followed by a series of busts, with arrestees including Amara’s estranged husband, Christopher Wells, and three men implicated in a murder-for-hire plot. But only now are getting the horrific details of the case, including an account about Rafferty’s six-year-old niece,…
A Fort Collins medical marijuana clinic was open as usual Monday despite being a crime scene the day before. As Michael Roberts reported yesterday in his post about a possible Fort Collins dispensary ban, Herbal Wellness LLC was robbed at gunpoint on Sunday. I spoke earlier with an Herbal Wellness…
Update: The bank-robbing, car-chase-leading Dougherty gang has not yet been charged with a pair of carjackings in Utah prior to their capture earlier this month. But the trio don’t want for accusations. A cumulative 76 charges were leveled against Internet skin pic sensation Lee Grace Dougherty and her siblings yesterday,…
Update: Aurora’s Jasmine Fike, the fifteen-year-old whose frantic 911 call about an abductor about to take her set off a nationwide Amber Alert last week, has been found — and she didn’t go far. Police discovered her, disguised but still recognizable, near a fast-food restaurant on East Colfax, an area…
At just shy of 3 a.m. on Sunday morning, the Denver Police Department received a call about a violent argument. But it involved more than that. Cops found a woman who’d been stabbed, and she soon succumbed to her wounds. Now, Deon Porchia has been arrested in relation to what…
Opponents of a Westminster Police drug-enforcement checkpoint note correctly that alcohol-related crashes like Department of Corrections officer Jason Ulrich’s are far more prevalent those those involving narcotics. But the latter do happen, as shown by the case of Joshua Wittig, just sentenced to ten years in an incident that initially…
Although the Westminster Police recently staged a drug enforcement checkpoint, most under-the-influence crashes still tend to involve alcohol. The arrest of Department of Corrections officer Jason Ulrich is a case in point: He tested at more than triple the standard for drunkenness following a crash into a car occupied by…
There are several paintball facilities in the Denver area — more than enough to get your trigger-pulling fix. But after a multiple-night shooting spree by four teens to settle a “beef,” maybe it’s time to build another…
This Sunday, August 21, the Deer Creek Challenge will take place in Jefferson County’s Deer Creek Canyon — and in advance of the event, even more bicyclists than usually pedal in the area are training there. But not everyone appears to be welcoming. The Jeffco sheriff’s office is investigating several…
Dry-ice bombs are so simple to make that anyone who reads the Wikipedia page featuring the image seen here could probably manage it. That only increases the challenge for the Araphaoe County Sheriff’s Office, which is looking for the person or persons who made a device that recently blew up…
Dallas Cardenas will serve eight years in prison for trafficking a seventeen-year-old girl and pimping an adult woman, the state attorney general’s office announced today. Cardenas , twenty, of Denver, is the first person to be convicted under Colorado’s human trafficking statute, which was adopted in 2006. A jury in…
Last month, Danielle Blankenship, 21, was accused of misdemeanor animal cruelty for allegedly killing her cat by blowing heroin smoke in its face — and Boulder authorities talked about upping the charge to a felony if any heroin turned up in the cat’s system. But none did, prompting the district…
In the photograph above, the sticker depicting Captain America’s helmet from the movie Easy Rider is placed over the letter “O” in the word “NO” on a federal government “NO TRESPASSING” sign in a manner that sensitively captures the movie’s exploration of freedom, fear and lawlessness of the American cultural…
The Firestone Police Department hasn’t formally charged anyone with poisoning a pair of dogs earlier this month. But officers have clearly made it a priority to catch and bring to justice the person who allegedly killed Dozer Boy, a chocolate lab, and Kyera, a German shepherd. Get a load of…
During the Broncos’ first preseason game, kicker Matt Prater scored eleven points. But that’s nothing compared to the score he racked up the previous week — .142 blood alcohol content, following a hit-and-run crash in which he was accompanied by an employee at Shotgun Willie’s, one of Denver’s most renowned…
Last October, Tim Albo was the victim of a hit-and-run accident that left him in a coma. Brandon Mondragon was charged and convicted of the crime, but Albo’s family was frustrated that he only got six months. And they’re even more upset now that Mondragon’s punishment ended this week after…
Update: In our earlier coverage about the death of ten-month-old Adam Gonzales, we noted that plenty of mysteries remained. Now, we’re getting more information about Frances Garcia, who allegedly responded to the baby’s crying in a way that adds up to murder, and Amanda Lujan, who faces accessory beefs…
Update below: Timothy English was arrested on suspicion of assault in an incident that smacks of class warfare. He allegedly asked a man for change, and after being rejected, he reached into his guitar case and pulled out not an ax, but a club, which he used to hit his…
Yesterday morning’s arrest of the Dougherty gang was just as wild as the crime spree that precipitated the trio’s cross-country sprint. It involved a car chase, a flipped car and the shooting of Lee Grace Dougherty, the proud redneck and ex-stripper whose skanky bikini photos have become Internet sensations…
Update: Longmont police have now confirmed the identities of the father and daughter who died in an apparent murder-suicide as David Heydenburg and Allyson Heydenburg, age three. And they’ve also revealed a new bit of information that somehow makes this unimaginably horrific incident even worse: Before David killed his child,…
