Julie Stene has waited nine years for her day in court, and Arapahoe County District Judge Carlos Samour Jr. figures that’s long enough. Denying a reluctant district attorney’s effort to further delay filing charges in a 2000 rape investigation that the DA’s office repeatedly refused to pursue, Judge Samour instructed…
As noted in a blog yesterday, operating-room tech/accused hepatitis-C passer Kristen Parker’s public comments about the possible infection of patients at two different Colorado medical facilities were limited to quotes in the criminal complaint against her: The most vivid line was, “I know, I fucked up.” Now, Channel 4 has…
In recent days and weeks, there have been a lot of things said about Kristen Parker, an operating-room tech accused of infecting a thus-far-unknown number of patients with hepatitis-C by swapping dirty syringes for clean ones. But the main words attributed to her in this space and elsewhere were from…
Since news broke about the arrest of former University of Northern Colorado theater professor Vance Fulkerson, who’s been charged with sexual exploitation of children in relation to a video system set up in his bathroom, plenty of alumni have stepped up to share their experiences. However, no account I’ve stumbled…
Don’t worry about running into operating-room tech Kristen Parker anytime soon — if you’re not in the hoosgow, that is. The self-confessed needle lover accused of spreading hepatitis-C among patients at two different medical facilities in the area is being held without bond according to a new release from the…
The way Jim Benish tells it, if local law enforcement agencies don’t manage to solve two and possibly three notorious, decades-old child murder cases, it won’t be because they don’t have enough evidence. “They have all the information that I have,” says Benish, a former Thornton police officer and author…
It’s rare for a judge to order a reluctant district attorney to purse a rape case, finding that the DA’s decision not to file was arbitrary, capricious and unreasonable. But that’s what happened last year in a decade-old sex assault case in Arapahoe County that we reported on in “CU…
The accusations levied against University of Northern Colorado theater professor Vance Fulkerson are grotesque in the extreme: Earlier this week, he was charged with sexual exploitation of children related to a video system set up in (wait for it) his bathroom. And charges that UNC took no action against Fulkerson…
Obviously, we hope no one ever assaults anyone. Give peace a chance! But goons hoping to get away with such a crime should know better than to stand in front of a bus camera en route to their chosen butt-beating locale. That’s what the man in the photo attached here…
Here’s a crime that really stinks: Wheat Ridge Police are on the lookout for a man who poured raw sewage directly from his camper into a drain leading to a retention pond near Wheat Ridge High School. No big deal? Well, Wheat Ridge authorities say it could take six weeks…
View Larger Map A man shot and killed July 4 on the 1700 block of Billings Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”), has been identified as forty-year-old Aurora resident Macwinston Dowthard. At this point, that’s pretty much…
View Larger Map Information has been dribbling out about a robbery attempt at a cigarette and check-cashing store at 9445 E. Colfax that resulted in one man being fatally shot; the area is captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Now,…
Outrage continues to build over Kristen Parker, a surgical tech who was formally charged in federal court yesterday with multiple counts related to the exposure of patients at Rose Medical Center to hepatitis-C. The main story on the Denver Post’s front page relates to the startling delay in linking Parker…
View Larger Map As noted in a blog yesterday, an Aurora Police Department release about a robbery and shooting on East Colfax was as vague as vague could be. The document didn’t even make it clear how many stick-up artists were involved — just that a man left leaking blood…
View Larger Map Late on July 4, Denver Police officers responded to a call at 14954 East Elk Place in Montbello, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). There, they found two men suffering from gunshot wounds: one dead,…
In Denver, most of the coverage about Kristen Parker, an operating-room technician who’s been charged with exposing patients to hepatitis C for swapping dirty syringes filled with saline for new ones loaded with the painkiller fentanyl, has focused on her time at Rose Medical Center. However, she also worked at…
View Larger Map Most of us were able to celebrate Independence Day without capping each other — but not everyone. Earlier today, we told you about a slaying late yesterday on the 1700 block of Billings Street in Aurora. Now comes word from the Denver Police Department about an exchange…
View Larger Map One of the loud noises heard by people living in the vicinity of 1700 Billings Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”), wasn’t caused by Fourth of July fireworks. It was a gunshot that left…
I have very few rules in life. Don’t eat ice cream right before bed, unless you want heartburn. Don’t watch Jimmy Fallon right before bed, unless you want heartburn. And never, ever, under any circumstances, get high and drunk on a Monday night and have a threesome with another dude…
Armed robbers are almost invariably armed with the same thing: a gun. Bo-ring! But nineteen-year-old Dylan Lee Suomi reportedly took a different tack Tuesday night when he decided to boost some Oxycontin from a Glendale Walgreens, using a samurai sword. Can’t say this switcheroo was all that successful: He managed…
Get your mace ready, flight attendants. Westword’s favorite Shmuck of the Week recipient, Christina Szele, will have the opportunity to continue her reign of shmuckiness far sooner than many observers expected. Szele won her first shmuck “honor” in June 2008, when she engaged in “thrashing,” “cursing,” “kicking,” “screaming,” “punching,” “stomping”…
On Wednesday, the Englewood Police Department revealed that a body had been found in an alley near the intersection of East Oxford Avenue and South Lincoln Street, an area captured in a graphic embedded after the jump (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Moments ago,…
