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Roohallah Mobarez, Highlands Ranch dental assistant, charged with sex assault on four kids

By Michael RobertsJanuary 27, 2011

The last thing a parent wants to worry about when sending a child to the dentist is that an assistant will do terribly inappropriate things while the young patient is drugged or defenseless. But that’s one possible interpretation of info released thus far about Roohallah Mobarez, twenty, who’s been arrested…

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Susan Wiggs victim in 9th & Sheridan home invasion, struggle after shooting (52)

By Michael RobertsJanuary 27, 2011

Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the woman who died in a shooting near Ninth and Sheridan on Tuesday night: Susan Wiggs, 58. In addition, the Denver Police Department has belatedly issued a press release on the incident, which notes that there was a struggle between residents of the…

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Daryll Brown gets life for hitting ex-wife Alisha Brown with wine bottle, strangling her to death

By Michael RobertsJanuary 27, 2011

On December 30, 2009, Alisha Brown was found murdered in the Sixth Avenue West subdivision. The following February, her ex-husband, Daryll Glenn Brown was arrested for her death. Now, Brown has been convicted and sentenced to life without parole for a crime involving a sneak attack, blunt force and strangulation…

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Louis Hampers: 9News reporter Deborah Sherman settles her civil lawsuit with him

By Melanie AsmarJanuary 26, 2011

Louis Hampers, the former Children’s Hospital ER doc charged with writing hundreds of phony prescriptions, now has one fewer lawsuit to worry about. Deborah Sherman, a reporter for 9News, has settled her civil lawsuit against Hampers, her lawyer says. The terms are private…

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Skyler Dematteo, Tyrale Haselrig-Graham did vodka shots with nine-year old, DA says

By Michael RobertsJanuary 26, 2011

We all know wacky relatives who slip kids sips of booze at parties. But the Denver District Attorney’s Office says eighteen-year-olds Skyler Dematteo and Tyrale Haselrig-Graham crossed the line from playfulness to child abuse on New Year’s Eve, giving a nine-year old so many vodka shots that she had to…

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Shawn Merriman, aka Mormon Madoff: Auction of amazing Ponzi scheme booty (PHOTOS)

By Michael RobertsJanuary 26, 2011

Shawn Merriman, aka the Mormon Madoff, pleaded guilty to mail fraud in December 2009, earning a twelve-year sentence for Ponzi scheming that allowed him to amass an amazing collection of classic cars and more. This Saturday, Merriman’s playthings go on the block. The photos of items up for bid –…

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Brian Hicks stands trial for allegedly ordering Willie Clark, another man to murder a witness

By Melanie AsmarJanuary 25, 2011

Today, reputed gang leader Brian Hicks stands trial in Denver for the murder of a witness named Kalonniann Clark. Prosecutors say Hicks ordered the killing while he was in jail on drug charges in 2006 in order to stop Clark from testifying that he’d tried to shoot her a year…

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Courtney Bowles: Fort Collins teacher busted naked with student getting national exposure

By Michael RobertsJanuary 25, 2011

The most common reaction to student-sex-abuse reports about the likes of Travis Masse, Gary Wegner and other men featured in our collection of 2010 accused teachers and caretakers mug shots is revulsion. But when an attractive female teacher is similarly targeted, the response is far different. Which explains why the…

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Joaquin Campos charged with homicide in death of infant he allegedly threw over his head

By Michael RobertsJanuary 25, 2011

The Boulder County Coroner has come to a conclusion about the October death of ten-month-old Lyon Campos, for which his father, Joaquin Campos, has been arrested. “The cause of death is multiple blunt force injuries,” writes coroner Emma Hall. “The manner of death is homicide.”…

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Quentin Smith killed in drive-by shooting, 2nd recent homicide on North Pontiac Street (51)

By Michael RobertsJanuary 25, 2011

On December 22, a man later identified as 21-year-old Jordan Nelson was killed on the 2900 block of North Pontiac Street while sitting in his car. Less than a month later, on early Saturday morning, Quentin Smith, 21, died in a drive-by shooting a little over four blocks away…

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Marvin Smith victim of homicide at Wise Harris Arms apartments, says Denver coroner (50)

By Michael RobertsJanuary 25, 2011

Update:Information is still scarce in a fatal shooting at the Wise Harris Arms apartments on Saturday. Now, however, we know the name of the victim — Marvin Smith, 33 — and the basic circumstances of his death, which became official shortly after he was transported to Denver Health with a…

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Ronald Dean Smith: Did lobbyist put chicken in ex-wife’s vents, text about female dryness?

By Michael RobertsJanuary 21, 2011

As a state lobbyist, Ronald Dean Smith is a familiar figure in Colorado politics — which only makes the charges against him more bizarre. He’s accused of burglary and more for actions described in an arrest warrant on view below, including allegedly leaving raw chicken in the vents of his…

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Headline to beat for best of the year: “Police search for Moron”

By Michael RobertsJanuary 20, 2011

Yes, it’s only January. But there’s already a frontrunner in the Headline of the Year contest: 9News’ “Police search for Moron.” That’s Joseph Moron, who the Aurora Police want on a pair of felony warrants. The post certainly suggests that he’s earned his name — and the APD confirms the…

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Trent Hix: JV Bandit allegedly lived with his mom, walked to the banks he robbed

By Michael RobertsJanuary 20, 2011

When members of the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force dubbed a local bank robber the JV Bandit, they had no idea how appropriate the nickname would turn out to be. Trent Hix, the man now accused of being the crook in question, may be 38-years old, but he reportedly…

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Michael O’Connor arrested in fellow ex-CU Buff linebacker Michael Sipili sex assault case

By Michael RobertsJanuary 20, 2011

Update: On January 11, acclaimed CU Buffs linebacker Michael Sipili was arrested on sex assault charges, as documented in a post on view in its entirety below. Now, a second CU former CU linebacker, Michael O’Connor, has been arrested in the case — reportedly for letting Sipili join in a…

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Ronald Eugene Beach gets 20 years for abusing granddaughters, ages 3 and 5, at Fort Carson

By Michael RobertsJanuary 19, 2011

Ronald Eugene Beach, 63, has been sentenced to twenty years in federal prison for sexual abuse of minors, and the stipulated facts included in his plea agreement on view below certainly present a strong, and disturbing, case for the sentence’s length. The targets? His own granddaughters, who he victimized at…

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Art Medina drowned Maria Duron, then hanged himself in murder-suicide, coroner reports (49)

By Michael RobertsJanuary 19, 2011

Update: As noted in our original item about the death of Maria Duron and Art Medina, on view below, all signs pointed to a murder-suicide in the case — and that proved to be the case, according to the Arapahoe County coroner. But the details are still shocking. The coroner…

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George Lindeboom homicide: Latest on arrests of Brighton’s Evan Lawlor & Ryker Schlitt (48)

By Michael RobertsJanuary 18, 2011

George Lindeboom, 67, was the first victim of a homicide in Brighton since 2008, and there have already been two arrests in the case: Evan Lawlor and Ryker Schlitt. But even though the crime took place last week, Brighton Police Department spokesman John Bradley says no mug shots of the…

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Michelle Whitmire: High school cafeteria manager’s alleged specialty giving pot to kids

By Michael RobertsJanuary 14, 2011

No, Jefferson High School cafeteria manager Michelle Whitmire isn’t accused of serving up marijuana on a plate alongside Mystery Meat and Surprise Stew. But an arrest affidavit on view below in its entirety accuses the 51-year old of giving weed to children as young as elementary schoolers…

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Sid Wells murder: Arrest warrant for Thayne Smika issued in notorious 1983 Boulder murder

By Michael RobertsJanuary 14, 2011

More than a decade before the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, Boulder’s most notorious unsolved murder was the 1983 slaying of Sid Wells, a handsome CU student who’d been dating actor Robert Redford’s daughter, Shauna. Now, more than 27 years later, an arrest warrant on view below has been issued for…

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Shannon Johnson affidavit: She was playing Cafe World on Facebook as 1-year-old son drowned

By Michael RobertsJanuary 14, 2011

Shannon Johnson, 34, is due in court this morning in a case that’s both incredibly tragic and a sign of the times. In an arrest affidavit on view below in its entirety, Johnson tells police that she was fooling around on Facebook while her one-year-old child was drowning in a…

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Theodore Madrid allegedly drunk and high when he killed 2-year-old Caden Rodgers (47)

By Michael RobertsJanuary 13, 2011

Update: Given the information contained in the arrest affidavit for Theodore Madrid, it’s no surprise that he’s now been charged with first-degree murder in the death of two-year-old Caden Rodgers. According to the document, Madrid was well over the legal limit for drunkenness behind the wheel — .177 blood alcohol…

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