This morning’s press conference to unveil Colorado’s new mental-health plan was scheduled weeks earlier — but the announcement ended up being very timely, since it took place just days after one of the worst mass shootings in history. And just as Governor John Hickenlooper’s recent-gun control comments have been thrust…
The first, fragmentary accounts of a shooter’s rampage through an elementary school in Newtown, Connecticut, were just starting to make headlines last week when the cyberchatter about a conspiracy began. This is not just some lone nutcase engaged in senseless killing for his own indecipherable reasons, the mutterers assured each…
After the tragic mass shooting in Connecticut on Friday, Governor John Hickenlooper, no stranger to devastation, said the time has come to talk gun control. President Obama has also signaled his interest in policy changes. But thousands of Colorado residents are having a different reaction: They are looking to purchase…
In summer 2011, we told you about the arrest of Ricky Scott for the murder of Anthony Silva, a Fort Carson soldier; see our original coverage below. Now, Scott has been convicted of first-degree murder in the crime, which appears to have taken place after a fight over $200 worth…
Five months after suffering their own losses, family members associated with deceased victims in the Aurora theater shooting have set up a fund to help Newtown school shooting victims, including Emilie Parker, age six, pictured here. Calling themselves VictimsFirst, the group said the money will go directly to victims’ families…
Late last month, we told you about William Costello, charged with being a serial rapist after his DNA scored strikes on three previous sex assaults; see our original coverage below. Since then, he’s been linked to two more crimes, yet his bond was actually lowered — and he’s since been…
Update: A silver Ford Explorer ran through a red light last week in Fort Collins, colliding with a cyclist and sending him flying off his bike before the driver fled from the scene, leaving the cyclist on the ground. So says the police’s official accident report, on view below, along…
In the immediate aftermath of the Aurora theater shooting, Governor John Hickenlooper said it was too soon to talk about gun control. He remained virtually silent until, in a Thursday interview calling for a debate on the topic. One day later, the unimaginable shooting in Connecticut that claimed the lives…
As we all know, Colorado has been shaken by some extraordinarily startling crimes in 2012 — and they’re reflected in the mug shots that accompanied our coverage of these stories. Below, we’ve assembled the images associated with the best known among them, as well as other tales that give us…
Each year, as we pull together roundups of the year’s most memorable mug shots, we’re startled anew by some of the photos — those in which the subjects are so intense, pissed off or something that the images are burned into our brains. Below, see the twenty from 2012 that…
Update: Last week, we told you about a strange hit-and-run case in which the driver who struck a teen briefly picked her up before dropping her at a 7-Eleven and speeding off; see previous coverage below. Initial debate centered on whether the guy was being Good Samaritan of a sort,…
Just past 6 p.m. on December 6, Zewde Ali, 61, stepped out of a bus and crossed to a center median on South Parker Road, as many people in the area do every single day. But before she could cross to the other side, Ali was struck and killed by…
Update: On Monday, we reported about the arrests of CU students Thomas Cunningham and Mary Essa for “pot brownie assault” — secretly feeding a professor and classmates dosed sweets, prompting three hospitalizations; see previous coverage below. Cunningham was originally busted on suspicion of four felonies, but yesterday, he was charged…
Back in May 2011, we told about accused procurer Germaine “Jell-O” Wallace, who was arrested along with four women who allegedly helped him run a prostitution ring through high-profile Denver strip clubs. He’s now been convicted on a pair of charges that netted him a fifteen-year sentence in the Big…
It just doesn’t make sense for lawmakers to allow guns on college campuses, where the risks of suicide or shootings tied to mental health illness can be high. At least that’s an argument of Boulder Representative Claire Levy, who is crafting legislation that would add campus buildings to the list…
If the Jefferson County DA’s office is right, some of the sixteen people indicted in a drug ring bust weren’t satisfied with dealing meth and cocaine. They were also allegedly involved with an illegal cockfighting operation featuring seventy roosters plus accoutrements that allowed the birds to slash the hell out…
When we assemble our various mug shot roundups each year, trends emerge. Last year, for example, there were a slew of baby-face booking photos. This year, in contrast, there were an unusual number of mugs featuring guys who would probably (or definitely, in many cases) qualify for the senior discount…
The University of Colorado has released 1,500 e-mails from accused Aurora theater shooter and former student James Holmes’s e-mail accounts. (They didn’t release 1,200 others, deeming them privileged.) Most of the released e-mails are mass messages, though there are a few notes authored by Holmes. CU also released e-mails sent…
Today, we begin our six-part roundup of 2012’s most memorable mug shots, culled from our crime coverage throughout the year. And given what’s happened in these parts over the past almost-twelve months, it’s only appropriate that we’re starting out with the weirdest images — frequently with weird allegations to go…
A colleague of the CU-Boulder history professor hospitalized after pranksters fed her a pot brownie stressed the seriousness of the incident by noting the bad things that could have happened if the prof had driven afterward. But this scenario wasn’t hypothetical in the case of two Boulder cops recently busted…
How did faculty and staff at the University of Colorado, where accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes was a neuroscience student, react the morning of July 20? We’ve put together a timeline of e-mails culled from the 3,800 released this week by CU. The e-mails, which you can read below,…
On the “About” section of Vincent Chacon’s Facebook page, Steven Hernandez is listed as “Brother (Pending).” Also pending are a series of legal actions prompted by the pair’s arrest for the armed robbery of the Park Meadows Nordstrom, followed by a high-speed chase…
