The arrest affidavit in the Perrish Cox rape case was released Friday, and new details have come to light that the Denver Bronco no doubt wishes had stayed in the dark forever. According to the affidavit, Cox’s accuser believes she was drugged and raped in September 2010, and DNA evidence…
Judging from the emotionally charged online comments in response to this week’s cover story, “Beyond Belief,” many Westword readers are baffled, outraged and just plain frustrated about the bizarre and tragic case of Charles Farrar — a man who’s still serving a 145-year sentence for sexually assaulting his stepdaughter Sacha,…
While the parents of Kenia Monge are still hoping to get answers about their daughter’s whereabouts from Travis Forbes, the last person known to have seen her on April 1, offers of help for Lydia Tillman, the Fort Collins woman Forbes has been charged with attempting to murder and sexually…
We’re learning more about the homicide at the Arvada location of Special Kinds, a former pot shop (and a sketchy one at that). Police confirmed yesterday that the one-time dispensary’s owner, 34-year-old Michael “SK” Walker, was shot and killed Monday night in what looks like a home invasion…
Reports about a homicide at the site of Special Kinds, an Arvada medical marijuana dispensary that officially shut down last year, remain sketchy — much like the MMC itself. In the wake of the incident, medical marijuana critic William Breathes’s Special Kinds review is even more vivid and memorable…
At around 7 p.m. last night, Lakewood Police officers rolled onto the 1800 block of Kendall Street following reports of a shooting. They soon found a fatally injured man inside a unit at the Plaza De Lago apartments — and they’re looking for three men who may be responsible for…
Charles Farrar is serving a 145-year prison sentence at the Sterling Correctional Facility after being found guilty on 22 counts of sexual abuse against his teenaged step-daughter, Sacha Bruce. Except he didn’t do any of it…
Robert Walters has been quiet, at least publicly, since he was arrested last year for murdering his girlfriend and then hiring someone to kill his wife, to whom prosecutors say he confessed the crime. But the opposite was true before he was arrested. As explained in this week’s cover story,…
What happens in a public trial becomes public record. Except when the government says it doesn’t. That little hitch in the law fuels the ongoing battle between Prison Legal News and the U.S. Justice Department over a graphic video shot inside the U.S. Penitentiary Florence in the aftermath of a…
Walking alone in any city — even one as seemingly safe as Boulder — during the early morning hours can lead to bad things. The latest evidence: a sexual assault on an eighteen-year-old woman making a fast-food run early Saturday morning. Page down to see a sketch of the suspect…
Robert Walters, the subject of this week’s cover story, “Dead End,” was persistent, prosecutors say. After one man declined Walters’s request to kill his wife, he turned to Rodrick Williams, a career criminal who accepted the job but then ratted Walters out to the police. So who was the first…
This morning, Detra Farries pleaded not guilty to manslaughter and several other charges in relation to one of the most gruesome incidents in recent memory. The victim: Colorado Springs tow-truck driver Allen Rose, who was dragged over a mile to his death…
In June 2010, Stephanie Rochester was accused of smothering her infant son, allegedly because she feared he was autistic. A year later, a state psychiatric evaluation still hadn’t taken place due to systemic delays. But the report’s finally in — and Rochester’s been determined to have been legally insane at…
Who is the man prosecutors say Robert Walters, accused of murdering his girlfriend, hired to kill his wife in order to keep her from telling his secrets on the witness stand? As explained in this week’s cover story, “Dead End,” his name is Rodrick Williams, and he’s a forty-year-old career…
Here’s proof that self-defense training really pays off: A woman schooled in martial arts reportedly managed to fend off an attacker who’d gotten into her home. Now, the Aurora Police Department is circulating a computer composite of the man, who’s suspected of burglary and attempted sexual assault…
The new status report from Independent Monitor and Westword profile subject Richard Rosenthal contains a real whopper: He says off-duty Denver officers caught driving drunk in Denver may be scoring get-out-of-jail free cards. Since 2005, ten off-duty Denver officers have been busted for drunk driving outside of Denver, but within…
Charged with murdering his girlfriend, Robert Walters decided to take his fate into his own hands. Figuring that the only real witness the cops had was his wife, who told police that Walters confessed everything to her, prosecutors say Walters hatched a plan to get rid of her, too –…
Louis Hampers, the former Children’s Hospital ER doctor charged with writing 654 phony prescriptions (in addition to harassing women he met on adult websites), won’t be doctoring or online dating any time soon. He pleaded guilty today to fourteen counts of prescription drug fraud, each of which carries potential prison…
Update: The arrest of Travis Forbes for attempted murder, sexual assault and arson in the horrible case of Lydia Tillman has brought fresh attention to an equally troubling matter — the April 1 disappearance of Kenia Monge, in which Forbes has described himself as a suspect. Now, Monge’s parents are…
According to Charles Irwin, executive director of Colorado Springs Pride Center, two of the five gay people recently attacked at a fast-food restaurant in the city were soldiers. Nonetheless, neither the mayor nor the city council will sign a hate-crime-denouncing resolution prompted by the assault, and neither will they issue…
By all accounts, a teenager busted by Adams County deputy David Morrow was plenty drunk. But Morrow’s the one in trouble — after allegedly punching the teen in the face, breaking his jaw in the process. Among the charges he’s facing: child abuse and second-degree assault…
The Brighton Police Department is under fire for allegedly giving special treatment to firefighter Randy Cleveland, who’s been charged with six domestic-violence-related felonies. But the BPD, which denies the claims about Cleveland, apparently has a zero-tolerance policy when it comes to stupid pranks, as indicated by its arrest of six…
