In July 2008, eighteen-year-old Angie Zapata of Greeley was beaten to death by a 32-year-old man she met online. In April 2009, a jury found that man guilty of murder. What’s more, they convicted him of a hate crime, finding that he had killed Angie because she was transgender. Tomorrow,…
Douglas Bruce has made no shortage of enemies over the years — and plenty of them are likely grinning at the sight of his mug shot, released in conjunction with word that he’s been indicted for failing to pay taxes he earned in 2005-2007. His alleged method of evasion? Funneling…
Update below: At least six teachers and coaches were busted on sexually related charges in these parts last year, and 2011’s already brought the story of Courtney Bowles, found naked on top of a student in a car. But the arrest of Alameda High basketball coach Wes Specht on similar…
At this writing, representatives of the Aurora Police Department are combing an open space area near the intersection of Chambers Road and Yale Avenue following the discovery of a dead body just shy of 7 p.m. last night. The APD’s Detective Bob Friel terms the death “suspicious” and identifies the…
Every daughter wants to know her mother’s got her back — and there can’t be any doubt in Vanessa Casillas’s mind about that. After all, her mom, Maria Plazola, is facing charges that she attended a high-school fight Vanessa was in… and instead of trying to stop it, she encouraged…
The High Times Medical Cannabis Cup this past weekend earned high marks from William Breathes, our medical marijuana critic. But Greg Childre’s memories of the bash will be tainted by what happened right afterward: Suspects unknown pulled up to a giant GrowBot trailer worth $50,000 that he showed off at…
Update: We’re getting more information about the arrest of Richard Paul Stewart, a person of interest in the slaying of his ex-wife, Norma Stewart, at the Edward Jones branch in Westminster. Granted, some of that info is a bit garbled. However, it’s clear that Stewart is currently hospitalized after being…
The 2008 feature “Planned Parenthood’s Scheme to Bust Abortion Protesters” focused on longtime pro-life advocate Jo Scott. That August, she was convicted of violating the state’s “bubble law,” which prohibits anti-abortion types from coming within eight feet of anyone in a hundred-foot radius of a clinic without their okay. Her…
Our latest roundup of 2011 mug shots (check out the January and February galleries here) features 35 photos of men and women at the center of often startling tales — the allegedly pervy DARE instructor, the alleged church masturbator, an alleged mom stomper and much more. Check out their closeups…
Update: The Arapahoe County coroner’s office has reportedly identified the two men killed in an alleged burglary on the 900 block of South Dearborn Way as Jovan Rivers, thirty, and Harrell King, 33. But there’s plenty we don’t know at this point…..
Less than seven years after Teresa Lynn shot her husband in the face as he slept, killed her mother-in-law and considered drowning her eight-month-old son, an Arapahoe County judge has ordered her release from the state hospital, starting with unsupervised off-grounds trips and eventually leading to community placement. The decision…
A couple in a small Colorado town are murdered and the gaze of the police settles on a boy too young to have his name publicly acknowledged at this stage of the investigation. Sound familiar? It should in light of the shocking deaths of Burlington’s Charles and Marilyn Long, allegedly…
Like the allegedly marijuana-related fatal crash involving Joshua Wittig, the January 2010 murder of Douglass Singleton, reportedly during a robbery involving medical marijuana, made a big splash initially, then fell off the media’s radar. Turns out a lot’s happened in the case, including a hung jury in the first trial…
Update: Mere minutes after publishing a post about what was described as a fatal auto/pedestrian accident on South Buckley near East Kentucky, we received new information from the Aurora Police Department making it clear that the previous theory was incorrect. Turns out Faison Eriven, nineteen, who was originally thought to…
Update: On Friday, Robert Montoya was convicted of two sex assault counts revolving around his relationship with Kayleah Wilson, who was then twelve-years-old. Of course, Wilson was found murdered last year, and Montoya was declared as a person of interest in the investigation — and a spokesman for the Greeley…
In October at the Loveland Museum/Gallery, Montana trucker Kathleen Folden attacked Enrique Chagoya’s “The Misadventures of Romantic Cannibals” with a crowbar because of a panel that appears to depict Jesus receiving oral sex — an act for which she was given eighteen-months probation and a $2,991 fine a few weeks…
Courtney Bowles, a former teacher at Mountain View High School, got national exposure for exposing herself, in a manner of speaking. She was caught having sex with a student in a car, setting off a web frenzy spurred by her comely photos and hot-for-teacher fantasies of the sort Van Halen…
DARE officers are charged with going into classrooms and telling kids that they should stay off drugs. But Michael Mangino probably should have added that they should stay off cops, too. He’s been accused of several sex crimes in relation to an allegedly inappropriate relationship with a fifteen-year-old runaway. And…
Graffiti can be artistically fascinating or it can be simple vandalism. This is a post about the second kind. At least 33 different spots in the Spruce Mountain Open Space area have been tagged by folks with a skill mainly for despoiling nature. And the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office is…
Update: Still no arrests in the quintuple shooting at the Windsor Court Apartments, 900 South Quince, last week. But while the two main suspects remain mysterious, we now know the names of the two people who didn’t survive their wounds. According to a report from the Denver coroner’s office, they…
Update: Last week, two people were found in a car parked on a Westminster street: one dead, one wounded. Now, the Westminster Police Department has shared its view about how they got that way — a failed murder-suicide, with Christopher Thomas Mainock, 22, wielding the weapon…
DNA may not be forever, but it can survive long enough to prompt charges for years-old crimes — like, for instance, the one that just gob-smacked Steven Lee Hill. He’s now been accused of sexually assaulting a 59-year-old woman along an East Mississippi bike path back in 2007 — a…
