On Saturday, June 11, devotees of Ultimate Frisbee will be sailing discs with abandon in spirited competition on a field in Centennial — while raising cash for “random acts of kindness” in response to an act of senseless violence that claimed one of their own. Andrew Gelston Graham would have…
Mary Torres, 27, is accused of leaving a trail of destruction in her wake yesterday — not the least of which was the house she crashed into after she allegedly stole a Jeep with two children inside. The kids are okay, but Torres definitely isn’t, given the array of charges…
The Aurora Police Department hasn’t formally named Alan Geisler, 46, as a suspect in the death of his common-law wife. However, the APD is asking for the public’s help in tracking him down following a grim discovery at a home on the 18000 block of East Pacific Place…
Update: Nathan Engle’s parents say he was sucker punched while standing at a food cart this weekend, causing him to whack his head on the pavement and die. The Larimer County coroner has ruled the death a homicide, and Terance Wilson remains in jail after his arrest following the incident…
William Goodrich, nineteen, didn’t have a long walk to the school bus on Tuesday night — because he crashed it into his own house. Why? He points to a friend named Matt and a piece of paper with mysterious properties…..
Khory Gagner, this is your life, and it’s a mess. Or at least it was on the night a drunken binge inspired him to break into a restaurant/bar, where he accidentally started a fire while heating up some queso for nachos — a snack he’ll have several years’ worth of…
Kurt Ward, 27, was arrested for his approach to getting off — and now, some observers may feel he got off too easily. He’s been sentenced to three years of intensive supervised probation for breaking into a neighbor’s house and fondling panties belonging to a sixteen-year-old girl…
Update: The twelve-year-old son of Burlington’s Charles and Marilyn Long already faces murder counts and assault beefs in relation to his parents’ deaths and wounds inflicted on two younger siblings. But there’s still be no decision about whether he will become one of the youngest ever Coloradans to be charged…
In a hit-and-run accident, a driver causes a crash but flees the scene rather than facing the music. Something similar happened over the weekend, but it didn’t involve cars. Instead, the parties were a woman on horseback and the owner of a dog that caused an injury requiring a rescue…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has just identified the man shot to death early Sunday morning, allegedly by someone in a car that drove past the scene of a house-party-related fight on the 300 block of South Yates Street. The victim: James Sanchez, 24. The cause of death was a…
Update:The Denver coroner’s office has now identified the victim of a Memorial Weekend homicide at Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Park. Richard Eugene McDaniel, a forty-year-old African American, died of multiple gunshot wounds. Look below to see our original coverage, featuring more details and a graphic of the area near the…
We traditionally think of pirates jonesing for barrels of rum — but not one plunderer in Colorado Springs. This man, adorned in a black wig, a black beard and mustache, and an eye patch, apparently prefers prescription drugs. Which is why he sailed straight to Walgreens…
Alex Tinsley was once a popular teacher at Longmont High School, overseeing classes in Japanese and German and serving as the “sensei” of a karate club — until police charged him with putting inappropriate holds on one of his students — accusations he’s now admitted. Because he’s pleaded guilty to…
Juan Carlos Garcia-Castrejon doesn’t turn eighteen until September, but the Denver District Attorney’s Office has already branded him an adult. That’s how he’s been charged in the Mother’s Day murder of Brighton’s Briana Rae Ramon, seventeen, after a house party spun out of control…
No one should get behind the wheel when they’re drunk — but some people should really, really, really not guzzle and drive. Like David Cabral, 23, who happens to be blind in one eye. Which may account for him nearly running over several people after downing four drinks…
Although William Ples Hunt was convicted of murder during the 1980s, he was later granted parole after blowing the whistle on a corrupt prison. So what did Hunt do with his second chance? He wasted it by trying to blow up his ex-girlfriend’s house — an act for which he’s…
On Monday, Denver Post sportswriter Natalie Meisler, age sixty, tweeted that she was “almost half thru Bolder Boulder.” But the day before, she was reportedly running for a different reason. On Sunday, according to the Boulder Police Department, she raced off after getting into a dispute over a Whole Foods…
In most of our monthly mug shot roundups, dudes far outnumber women — but not in May. This time around, females narrowly take the prize in cases involving everything from a machete robbery at a medical marijuana dispensary to an alleged prostitution scheme run through high-end strip clubs. Look below…
Wouldn’t it be nice to come out the other end of a Memorial Day weekend without having another death to memorialize? Not this year: Sunday evening at Dr. Daniel Hale Williams Park, a conversation between two men ended with one of them shooting the other to death…
Update: The Denver coroner’s office has identified the woman stabbed to death at a HIV/AIDS group-living facility on West Wesley Avenue. Laura Emery, 46, was pronounced dead at the scene. Look below for our earlier coverage of this crime…
Victoria Barry, 26, has been formally charged with two counts of vehicular homicide and DUI in relation to a crash on I-25. Lilly Duncan, a 31-year-old Colorado Springs mom, died in the incident, leaving her daughter Dyrah, twelve, without a living parent. Her father died when she was nine…
Former Jefferson High teacher David Rangel was arrested last September after admitting he’d kissed and groped a student — one of two to eventually come forward. Yesterday, he received a sentence of ten-years-to-life of intensive-supervision sex-offender probation plus a six-month work-release sentence, even though one of the students in question…
