The slogan featured prominently on attorney Nicholas Athanasiou’s website reads, “When Everything Seems Against You, Call Us!” Well, Athanasiou may want to give himself a ring about now. He’s among eighty individuals accused of being part of a huge cocaine ring — one shuttered in what authorities are calling the…
Integrity. Respect. Personal growth. Community. Wisdom. These words are front and center on the website home page of Kent Denver School, one of the most highly touted (and expensive) private educational institutions in Colorado. It’s not the kind of place typically associated with crime — yet three Kent students are…
Usually, individuals charged with first-degree murder who are fortunate enough to make bail are careful not to get into more trouble. But Michael Clark appears to be an exception to that rule. He was busted for DUI after being accused of killing City of Boulder staffer Marty Grisham in 1994…
For decades researchers have attempted to fathom how the “criminal mind” differs from that of the average citizen. Now it appears there’s often one critical physiological difference — a significant percentage of convicted felons may be suffering from impaired thinking because of banged-up brains…
Last month, defense attorneys for Louis Hampers filed a motion asking that the former doctor be sentenced to probation for the crime of writing phony prescriptions to feed his pill addiction. This week, prosecutors filed their own motion, arguing that he should instead be sentenced to the previously agreed-upon twelve…
On his website, masseuse Steven Noble notes that he is legally blind — something he regards as a blessing. It’s one of many posted statements that make him seem like an unlikely target for criminal charges. But the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office has now formally accused him of unlawful…
While Denver Broncos running back Willis McGahee was getting (almost) naked for a Go Daddy commercial spoof, Knowshon Moreno, the baller he pretty much displaced, saw his year go from bad to worse. Moreno is facing four counts, including driving under the influence, after being pulled over for speeding through…
Many law enforcement agencies across the state compile and update their own most-wanted-criminals list — and the one maintained by the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office demonstrates the distressingly widespread and commonplace nature of domestic violence. All twelve people on its current list — eleven men and one woman — are…
If the folks at the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office are correct, Brian Douglas Trumble was the most patient of child molesters. According to the BCSO, Trumble, a private music teacher, had been working with a student for long period of time before crossing the line into criminal behavior…
Attorney and former Democratic power broker Willie Shepherd was sentenced to one year of probation, domestic violence classes and alcohol monitoring after pleading guilty earlier this month to third-degree attempted assault, a class two misdemeanor. The plea stemmed from Shepherd’s September 14 arrest on domestic violence charges…
The jury examining the March 2011 slaying of University of New Hampshire football player Todd Walker didn’t take long to determine the guilt of Kevin McGregor, the sandwich shop staffer charged in the slaying. Late yesterday, just a day after closing arguments, McGregor was convicted of first-degree murder and sentenced…
Yesterday, the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office received a 911 call about a missing child: An eight-year-old had been abducted from the Safeway on 560 Castle Pines Parkway. Patrol deputies and detectives promptly retrieved a video of the abduction from a Safeway surveillance camera, and both the victim and the suspect…
This weekend, Carl Gruber, 45, was busted at Boulder Municipal Airport with 55 pounds worth of marijuana. But while media reports on the arrest characterize Gruber as a suspected smuggler, he was been best known prior to this point as a pilot — an award-winning one…
Our Colorado Crimes archive has been was very busy during January, filling with stories that range from the bizarre to the tragic. Look below to see mug shots of those at the center of the reports, and click on their names or accompanying links to check out our original coverage…
Paul James Kerr, a former KinderCare teacher in Littleton, has pleaded guilty to felony sex assault on a child, as well as two other misdemeanor charges. His admitted technique — getting a child to reveal herself by claiming that he was checking her for signs of abuse…
News that Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney Carol Chambers is seeking the death penalty for Josiah Sher, the alleged trigger man in a double-murder-for-hire case in Castle Rock, doesn’t exactly come as a shocker. The slayings of Amara Wells and Bob Rafferty were about as coldblooded as they come, and Chambers…
Will Pericak has one of the most sparkling bios of any CU Buff. However, the Boulder Police report about his activities this past weekend is considerably less impressive. The document, on view below, tells a tale featuring a bar fire, a chest bump and a lot of fuck-yous…
That old saw about divorce being hardest on the kids almost turned fatal in the case of Nyesha Hall-Gonzalez, 28. She’s accused of burying a Carmelo Ortiz-Hall, her two-year-old son, under tumbleweeds and leaving him to die in an El Paso County field because of her desire to kill herself…
Anyone who’s ever visited Alfalfa’s in Boulder has probably fantasized about eating every delectable item in sight and then gently drifting into a blissful food coma. According to Boulder Police Department, Anthony Tornowski got to live the first part of that dream — but not the second…
Debe Bell, 59, has been found guilty on 35 counts of animal abuse at an Arvada property known as Six Bells Farm, where she raised rabbits. Many of the animals appear to have suffered and died in shocking conditions captured in photos on view below…
The Dougherty gang just can’t seem to stay out of the headlines. The trio of siblings, including sis Lee Grace, whose skintastic bikini photos became an Internet sensation, allegedly engaged in a cross-country crime spree that ended after a car-flipping chase in Southern Colorado last August. Now it’s Dylan Dougherty’s…
Most local news outlets aren’t using the name of the sixteen-year-old Utah student who met with Columbine principal Frank DeAngelis a month before being arrested, along with eighteen-year-old Dallin Morgan, in an alleged plot to blow up their high school. But Utah media is identifying him as Joshua Hoggan, whose…
