The gang known as Gallant Knights Insane has been operating in the Denver area for years. Now, three brothers — Jimmy, Michael and Timmy Valanzuela — who are thought to have been founding members of the organization have been indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury, along with three alleged associates: Tanya…
Kelly Mae Myers was reported missing in the Grand Junction area in late December. At first, law enforcers didn’t classify her case as a crime because evidence suggested she may have left of her own free will — and because she was eighteen, such a choice was perfectly within her…
Back in January, we told you about a Colorado Springs bombing that struck a complex that included the local NAACP office. The working theory early on was that the NAACP had been the target of the attack — and as we noted, the organization’s president, Cornell William Brooks, scheduled a…
Denver has seen more than its share of controversial police shootings, including the one that took the life of seventeen-year-old Jessie Hernandez last month. The same can be said of Weld County, which has experienced four fatal police shootings over the past eight months. The most recent of these involved…
It was one of the most shocking stories of 2014 — one whose details seemed too terrible to be true. But apparently they were. Jena Harman and her boyfriend, Alexander Smith, have reportedly pleaded guilty to keeping her seven-year-old child in caged outdoors on their remote Wyoming property — even…
As discussed here a few weeks ago, a new report issued by the Prison Policy Initiative takes a harsh look at the burgeoning video visitation business in prisons and jails. More than 500 detention facilities across the country now contract with private companies to provide some form of pay-to-visit technology for families of…
The image most of us have of patients suffering from advanced Alzheimer’s — a brutal malady detailed in Still Alice, for which Julianne Moore just won a well-deserved Academy Award this past Sunday — is of an elderly person sitting in place, lost in his or her own baffling world…
Last year, we told you about charges against Hector Diaz related to gun possession and his complicity in allegedly dropping $500,000 in Colombian cash in the Colorado marijuana business. Now, Diaz has pleaded guilty to a couple of counts — fewer than the number he originally faced. In exchange, Diaz is…
At this hour, members of the Aurora Police Department are reportedly investigating a homicide at a quadplex on the 1400 block of Lima Street. If that address sounds familiar, it should. In September 2014, another murder took place in the same quadplex. The victim was Danielle Griego, who was killed after…
Last year, we told you about accusations that Idaho Springs’ Haley Stanfield had put a hit on her boyfriend after the death of her fifteen-month-old baby, Logan Burchik. Stanfield remains behind bars based on this charge. Now, however, she’s facing a new allegation — that she and the aforementioned boyfriend, Joshua…
Last month, our Music blog told you about the arrest of Puddle of Mudd lead singer Wes Scantlin for trespassing at Denver International Airport — by riding the oversize luggage racks there. In recent days, Scantlin was supposed to appear in local court on that incident and a previous one in…
One sex assault in a neighborhood is terrifying enough. Two sex assaults are even worse, particularly when the reports come barely 24 hours apart. That’s what is happening in the vicinity of Capitol Hill. Denver police are seeking a suspect or suspects in cases that are said to have taken place…
The Denver Police Department didn’t immediately brand a death that took place in Green Valley Ranch late Tuesday night as a crime. But now, the DPD is investigating it as a homicide. The details about what took place remain scarce at this writing — but here’s what we know thus…
When family members take stories of what they see as injustice to the media, they’re obviously hoping for a sympathetic story to result — and Fox31 certainly gave the parents of Alicia Zamaro, a 22-year-old charged with attempted murder against her baby, Jerricho Curry, plenty of opportunities to state their…
Mere hours after vandalism of a Denver police memorial led to calls for the resignation of Police Chief Robert White, cops were on the scene of a far more serious crime. A man is dead and a woman was injured in a shooting that took place shortly after 2 a.m. on…
The debate over the death penalty couldn’t be more personal for the mother of Brendan Johnson. In June 2014, Johnson and his then-girlfriend, Cassie Rieb, were arrested and charged in the murders of his grandfather and grandmother, Charles and Shirley Severance, in the eastern Colorado community of Sterling. A few months later, prosecutors…
Kendrick Marquez, 25, reportedly died trying to prevent 21-year-old Autumn Martinez from driving drunk — and she’s now facing multiple charges in regard to the accident that killed him. But the black eye Martinez sports in her booking photo and the details of what became a fatal collision and the happenings that…
This past November, we told you about Eric Brandt, who frequently rides his bicycle in Westminster while displaying a giant hand, complete with extended middle finger, that’s emblazoned with the phrase “FUCK COPS.” At the time, Brandt had secured the legal services of attorney David Lane, who filed a free-speech…
A protest against police violence on Saturday afternoon was intended to draw attention to incidents like the officer-involved shootings into vehicles that left Ryan Ronquillo and Jessie Hernandez dead. But much to the chagrin of organizers, this message has gotten lost to a large degree after two demonstrators spilled red…
Leslie Carlson was a teacher at Pinnacle High School — was being the operative part of the sentence. Carlson has been fired after she was arrested for allegedly providing some of her students with alcohol and marijuana edibles. The Facebook page for Carlson appears to have been taken down. But 7News managed to…
Dusten Fischer and his beloved, Ashleigh, are expecting the birth of their first child together — a boy they’ve already named Brantley — on February 19. But less than a week away from that date, Fischer is in critical condition at Denver Health after being stabbed nine times during an…
In December, we told you about a triple murder for which Furmen Leyba and Gabriel Flores were arrested. During that bust, an Adams County deputy, later identified as Mike Robbins, was shot, apparently by friendly fire. Now, the Denver District Attorney’s Office has released its decision-letter about the incident (see…
