Game over for phony Bronco Amadeus Harlan

Amadeus Harlan lived life like the Bronco player he claimed he was — driving fast cars, wooing ladies left and right, even setting up a community sports company based around his gridiron glory. Too bad it was all a lie, as Westword described in the January 2008 feature “Pro and…

Have the masked Bank of the West gunmen struck again?

Those masked gunmen who stuck up a Bank of the West branch last week? Looks like they’re at it again. The TCF Bank at 15350 East 6th Avenue in Aurora was robbed on December 9, and according to FBI spokesman Dave Joly, “the suspect information is the same” as it…

Wake up: You may have just been sexually assaulted by Timothy Layne Martinez

What’s among the qualities Timothy Layne Martinez allegedly likes in women? Unconsciousness. Martinez has been charged with nineteen counts of sexual assault against two women, with the incidents dating back to 2006. Why the delay? Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Pam Russell explains: “Two victims came forward,” Russell says…

Top Mile High Murder mug shots of 2009: A photo gallery

Since we started our Mile High Murder series in May, we’ve written about 56 homicides in the immediate area around Denver. Unfortunately, many of these slayings remain unsolved at this writing — but arrests have been made in a sizable percentage of them, resulting in the release of photos capturing…

Medical marijuana among the booty in home invasion

Reports about medical marijuana-related crime are on the rise. Note our interview with Lt. Jerry Schiager, commander of the Northern Colorado Drug Task Force, who cited “at least five armed robberies, seven burglaries and one kidnapping” related to marijuana in the Fort Collins area over the past year and a…

Sexting taken to a super-creepy extreme by Geovany Alarcon

Sexting: the latest teenage pastime designed to make adults lose their shit. But before you write off the response to the phenomenon as more middlebrow hysteria, grok the particulars of Geovany Alarcon, twenty, who earned a four-year prison jolt in Weld County Court today for giving sexting an even worse…

Grim details emerge in prison death of sex offender

Last week, we reported on the bludgeoning death of inmate Ronald Ferguson, a convicted child molester, at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility outside of Canon City. A fifty-year-old habitual offender serving time for kidnapping and sexual assault on a child, Ferguson was struck repeatedly in the head with a metal…

See the masked gunmen who stuck up Bank of the West

Banks have had plenty of troubles during our ongoing economic crisis — but they’ve still got more money than the rest of us, which explains in part why there’s been such a rash of robberies of late. Just yesterday, we told you about the $83 Bandit, who’s allegedly removed booty…

Allen Ford, last of alleged racial attackers, gets busted

Late last month, the Denver Police Department began rounding up more than thirty African-Americans accused of robbing and/or beating men and women because they were either Caucasian or Hispanic. Now, the last of the at-large suspects — Allen Ford, 18 — has been taken into custody; he was busted late…

Did four juvies set a record for most cars stolen in a day?

Old-timers who bitch that young people today don’t have enough ambition obviously never met four juveniles taken into custody early yesterday. According to Lakewood Police Department spokesman Steve Davis, this quartet managed to swipe five cars before being busted — and afterward, one of them asked if they’d “set a…