Prior to Super Bowl Sunday, the Denver Police Department announced tactics to combat celebrations gone too far in the event of a Broncos victory. Unfortunately, a win wasn’t in the cards for Denver — yet cops deployed near the Metro State campus as part of the plan wound up responding…
After four days of closed-door hearings, Aurora theater shooting defendant James Holmes was back in open court today for a session about whether FBI crime scene analysts who collected data in the theater should be allowed to offer expert testimony at his trial. Brett Mills, an FBI forensic examiner, testified…
We don’t mean to shock those of you with tender sensibilities, but masturbation takes place in all kinds of settings — among them prison, where it’s presumably among the most popular ways to pass the time. Usually, though, former inmates aren’t sent back to the hoosgow for stroking behind bars…
Earlier this month, we asked if you could help identify a man who’d allegedly tried to sexually assault a woman just off a bus. Turns out the individual suspected of committing the crime, Adonnis Rucker, is seventeen. But the Denver District Attorney’s Office has decided to charge him for this…
A federal judge in Oregon has sentenced environmental activist Rebecca Rubin to five years behind bars — and to read a Malcom Gladwell book — for her role in setting several fires, including a 1998 act of arson in Vail that caused $12 million in damage. As a member of…
If a script writer for a network television alphabet show (CSI, NCIS, etc.) isn’t already working on an episode inspired by Aaron and Brian Lucas, you can bet one will get underway shortly. Aaron, a decorated former soldier who’d been stationed at Fort Carson, tried blaming his identical twin, Brian,…
Bob Autobee doesn’t want to see the man who murdered his son Eric twelve years ago put to death for his crime. Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler wants to prevent Autobee from sharing his views on the death penalty and the justice system with the jury that will decide…
Yesterday, we told you about the death of a Jefferson County deputy in a head-on collision with Kenneth Hosch, age 83, who has not yet been charged with a crime in the incident. Another elderly driver, 85-year-old Marshall Smith, isn’t so fortunate. Smith has been arrested in the hit-and-run death…
Like Bronco hype and stories about Bieber Behaving Badly, you can count on a regular supply of reports in the press dealing with how criminals continue to scam the system even while behind bars. The latest installment appeared over the weekend in the Denver Post, a tut-tutter lamenting that inmate…
Today marks the start of closed-door hearings in the Aurora theater shooting case, during which the lawyers are expected to discuss suspect James Holmes’s mental health in detail. Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to killing twelve people and injuring seventy others in July 2012. As part…
Earlier today, we told you about the death of a Jefferson County deputy after his motorcycle was struck by Kenneth Hosch, age 83. And another weekend incident further underscores the vulnerability of two-wheeled vehicles on roadways. On Saturday, cyclist Ernesto Wiedenbrug, 46, was killed in a hit-and-run incident near Windsor,…
The photos of three teenage girls on the Facebook page belonging to Paul Della Rosa, a veteran deputy with the Denver Sheriff’s Department, may be perfectly innocent. They could feature family members (he’s got a young daughter) or friends of friends. Whatever the case, Della Rosa was jailed for allegedly…
When most of us picture drug dealers, we don’t imagine someone like Almeda Sullivan, a former teacher’s aide at a Cherry Creek middle school. But at a preliminary hearing yesterday, she was treated like a serious criminal, and the arrest affidavit on view below explains why. Sullivan is accused of…
Update: Yesterday, we told you about a shooting at the Indian Hills home of Bruce and Maggie Leiman that left two people dead; see previous coverage below. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has now released the names of those who died: Maggie and Bruce’s son Robert Leiman, who’s believed to…
Blas Leroux, the 34-year-old man shot by Denver cops during a hostage standoff at a 7-Eleven last week, has died — and according to his parents, he favored this fate over the alternative. He made one last phone call to them moments before being hit by police gunfire, and during…
Last October, we shared a list of Colorado’s twenty most wanted sex offenders. But Denver has its own roster. It’s more than 150 strong, with all of the men and women on it wanted for failing to register after sex-crime convictions. To give you a feel for those at large,…
Update: Two juveniles were taken into custody following the explosion of what’s been described as a “chemical device” at SkyView Academy charter school. At least five people required treatment at an area hospital; see our previous coverage below. Now, authorities are detailing a possible charge against the pair for possessing…
Richard Dolin insisted that his baby daughter — five-month-old Marlayna, seen here — received many if not most of the injuries that eventually took her life from rolling off a couch onto a concrete floor. But prosecutors didn’t buy this explanation, pointing to shocking injuries completely inconsistent with this explanation…
Update: Last week, we told you about the stabbing death of eighteen-year-old Anthony Benavidez at a Thornton trailer park; see our previous coverage below. Shortly after their arrival at the scene, members of the Thornton Police Department took a seventeen year old into custody on suspicion of committing the crime,…
Update: We now know the identity of the man shot to death at 36th and Lafayette on Sunday: Jose Diaz-Luevano, 67 — the man a child was referring to when he burst from the home shouting, “They shot my Papi!” See our previous coverage below. Clay Baeza-Garcia, 33, has been…
At 8:15 a.m. today, Secundino Martinez, twenty, will make his first Boulder County appearance in relation to a stabbing at a Longmont house party early Sunday morning. And while he was initially busted on suspicion of one count of first-degree murder, that’s now doubled, sadly enough. Two teens have died,…
Even before the passage of Amendment 64, which allows adults age 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, law-enforcement agencies have campaigned against driving under the influence of drugs, even though, from a statistical standpoint, alcohol-related DUIs dwarf pot-related ones. This weekend, Arvada’s Keith Kilbey became…
