Update: On Friday, we offered an early report about a triple shooting at Red Rocks following a concert by Nas, Flying Lotus and Schoolboy Q — a story that was expanded upon on our Backbeat blog. Since then, authorities have confirmed that bullets struck an SUV in which Schoolboy Q…
James Holmes’s attorneys are accusing state prosecutors of discouraging Aurora theater shooting victims from talking to them, according to a motion filed this week (and on view below). They argue that prosecutor Lisa Teesch-Maguire sent an e-mail to victims with the message that efforts by Holmes’s attorneys to contact them…
Editor’s note: Click to see the latest update about the Red Rocks shooting on our Backbeat blog. According to the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office, three people were shot following the Nas-Flying Lotus-Schoolboy Q concert at Red Rocks last night — a trio who were found in a vehicle on 6th…
No denying that Idaho Springs’ Haley Stanfield, twenty, has suffered a terrible loss — the death last month of her fifteen-month-old son, Logan Borchik. But she now stands accused of attempting to turn her grief into vengeance by hiring Logan’s father to kill her current boyfriend, who is said to…
Michael Clapper, 24, made headlines in 2011 after being at the center of Occupy Denver’s eviction from Civic Center Park — a police action that ended in flames, arrests and Tebowing. Now he’s making news of a different, and particularly vile, sort. He’s one of two men arrested and charged…
Prostitution arrests seldom make headlines — unless the person busted allegedly was taking part in this activity knowing that he or she has HIV/AIDS. Joshua Harker is the latest person accused of this crime, and he’s hardly the first. In recent years, at least two other people have been charged…
Our June 12 cover story, “The Fatal Moment,” reviews the shifting evidence and contradictory witness accounts that sent three Denver men to prison for life after a fatal 1992 drive-by shooting. Following 22 years of good behavior, Eric Lightner and brothers William and Brian Lee hope to eventually see their…
A few months back, we told you about the murder of Aspen socialite Nancy Pfister and the shocking arrests of William and Nancy Styler, an ex-doctor and his wife in their sixties who were renting Pfister’s home. Now, all charges have been dropped against Nancy Styler — but thus far,…
Yesterday, we told you about a fatal shooting at a Lakewood motel in which clues are scarce. Neither is there a surplus of info available about a previous murder outside the El Shaddai International Ministries. However, the Denver Police Department has released a series of photos depicting persons of interest…
Last month, we told you about the officer-involved shooting of Isaac Vigil, who pulled a gun and opened fire after being busted and transported to a police station. When he was hit, he’s said to have declared, “I have meth up my ass!” Given the presence of Vigil’s weapon, there…
In May 2012, we posted about the nineteen most wanted murder suspects in Denver. Well, we recently checked back to see how many members of this group has been captured, and the answer is: zero. Not a single one of these alleged killers has been rounded up in two-plus years,…
Update below: On Tuesday, the Westminster Police Department put out an alert for Lea Chali Porter, a nineteen-year-old from the Pueblo area who’d been reported missing five days earlier after a visit to north metro. At this writing, Porter has not yet been found. However, Christopher Waide, a friend of…
Update: The Aurora Police Department has identified the victim of a fatal shooting outside a Taco Bell on June 4; see our previous coverage below. Mark Chalfant, nineteen, was a multi-sport athlete looking forward to a bright future when his life suddenly ended — and the three suspects in the…
The public, and the media, will be allowed to attend jury selection in the trial of accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes. Attorneys in the case requested that the proceedings be closed to the public, but Judge Carlos Samour ruled this week that the selection process will be open. It…
They were known as KTR, which allegedly stands for “Kings That Reck,” “Killing The Rest,” “Keeping Things Real,” “Killing Time Regardless” and “Keep Them Racks.” And if the allegations made in a 140-count grand jury indictment on view below are accurate, the burglary crew of five men and a juvenile…
A kidnapping at the Cherry Creek Mall and the murder of a Denver man whose body was found in a dumpster. At first glance, these crimes have little in common. But now, the same suspect — William Lornes — has been convicted of committing both of them and could spend…
Those of us whose knowledge of meth manufacture pretty much begins and ends with Breaking Bad will get a reality check from the following gritty, grungy, glamour-free photos of drugs, guns and more seized by the Metro Gang Task Force after busting not one but two alleged drug trafficking organizations…
The residents of one five-block stretch of Edgewater have every reason to be freaked out this morning. Yesterday, two kidnapping attempts took place within five blocks of each other — and only five hours apart. And while there’s been an arrest in the first case, with multiple sex offender Dennis…
At this writing, devoted father Dave Nazeri remains in a coma after a hit-and-run accident allegedly caused by Lucio Roberto Vasquez-Jimenez, a sixteen-year-old accused of violating the terms of his learner’s permit, among several other charges. Meanwhile, the Nazeri family is reaching out on social media, requesting help in covering…
Yesterday, in reporting about the arrest of Denver police detective Daniel Diaz de Leon, we noted that seven Denver cops have gotten into trouble in 2014. But another Denver cop, Aaron Egger, narrowly missed the cut. Egger was reportedly received DPD discipline earlier this year for a 2013 DUI bust…
Earlier this year, we told you about the arrest of Kenneth Hosch, age 83, after a crash that killed Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office Sergeant Dave Baldwin, who was on routine motorcycle patrol at the time. Now, Hosch has pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide — and the district attorney prosecuting the…
After the arrest of Denver Police Department Detective Daniel Diaz de Leon on charges including domestic violence and child abuse, 9News reported that he was the sixth member of the DPD to get in trouble over recent months. By our count, however, there have actually been seven — a small…
