JV Bandit robbing so many banks he may make varsity soon

The Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, the nicknaming kings of local law enforcement, have another scofflaw on their radar: the JV Bandit, who earned his handle for wearing a letter jacket on one of his jobs. Go team! Will he be wrapped up as quickly as the Formally Known…

Woman shot dead after possible ambush on East 36th Avenue (No. 13)

Update below: As the temperatures have heated up, so has metro-area violence. In recent days, Montae Davis died after a shooting near Fairfax Liquors and Cesar Reyes was arrested for an Aurora triple shooting over the weekend. The latest homicide: A possible ambush shooting on East 36th Avenue that wounded…

Robert Wallace shooting: Make My Day law meets Gran Torino

The Robert Wallace case has all the trademarks of a justice-gone-awry tale. When Wallace, an 81-year-old Wheat Ridge resident, saw two men trying to steal his trailer this past February, he opened fire, hitting one of the men in the head. But the person busted in the shooting’s immediate aftermath…

Denver homicide roster: See where all 16 of them happened

The Denver coroner’s office has released its list of homicides in Denver for the first half of 2010 — sixteen deaths. Some of those listed include straight-forward slayings , like the case of Douglass Singleton, who was allegedly killed by Peter Bellar in a marijuana transaction gone wrong. Others are…