Update: In two separate posts published in May 2015, we reported about the arrest of Eric Fuhs, Derek Webb and Chad Baluska for the murder of 61-year-old Samuel Grady, Fuhs’s uncle. Our previous coverage has been incorporated into this post. More than a year later, Fuhs, nicknamed “Ice,” has been sentenced…
Update: Around this time in 2015, we revealed the ten most frequently stolen cars in Colorado according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s annual “Hot Wheels” list, which covered calendar year 2014. Now, the Rocky Mountain Insurance Information Association has published data about Colorado thieves’ favorite targets in 2015, and many of the same…
The City of Trinidad has reached a $375,000 settlement in a lawsuit brought by the ACLU of Colorado on behalf of two women who were arrested three years ago in a botched drug-sting investigation that involved fabricated evidence and an informant paid to make busts. The city has also quietly…
George Brauchler is seeking reelection as district attorney for the 18th Judicial District, but it’s not exactly a race. The Democrats didn’t bother putting up a candidate for the office, and even if they had, Brauchler, a GOP up-and-comer who flirted with a U.S. Senate run before changing his mind, would…
Donald Trump Jr. made plenty of news during his visit to Colorado this week — a lot of it embarrassing or worse. Junior was denied a campaign stop at the Sink in Boulder around the same time that remarks surfaced about a joke he’d made about the Aurora theater shooting. On…
Among the biggest drug busts ever on Colorado’s eastern plains began with a man who’d been shot in the hand. It ended with two arrests and seven pounds’ worth of meth valued at $320,000. And that’s not to mention the 51 pounds of marijuana. “We’ve been seeing an increase in…
Update: In March, the Denver District Attorney’s Office announced the filing of six sexual assault counts against Canada’s Colby Messer in relation to alleged activities at the Grand Hyatt the previous November. The details contained in a police report on view below made it one of this year’s most disturbing stories —…
In recent weeks, two men, Spencer Siroky and David Tatum, were sentenced for a violent marijuana heist in Westminster circa July 2015 and a third, Fredy Castillo, is still wanted for the crime after jumping bail. But even if Castillo was in custody, the story wouldn’t be over for a victim of…
In late 2015, as we’ve reported, Grand Junction’s Sydney White was sentenced to thirty years behind bars related to the death of Angel Place, an eleven-month-old in her care. Prosecutors said Angel died after White kicked her in the head. “I did a horrible thing that I am not proud of,” she…
Last week, Burke Ramsey, older brother of JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in her Boulder home on Christmas Day of 1996, sued Dr. Werner Spitz, a Michigan-based forensic pathologist, for $150 million. The focus of the complaint was Dr. Spitz’s assertion in a CBS Detroit interview flowing from the network docuseries The…
Burke Ramsey, older brother of JonBenét Ramsey, who was murdered in Boulder on Christmas Day of 1996, has filed a lawsuit against Dr. Werner Spitz, a Michigan-based forensic pathologist. Spitz theorized on the CBS program The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey” that Burke had killed JonBenét with a blow to the head. The lawsuit, included…
The Facebook pages of Evergreen resident Katherine “Katie” Barton and her husband, Jason Barton, could hardly look more typical. The posts and photo galleries are dominated by photos of their three adorable children, who look happy in all the shots that appear. But the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office believe…
The media barrage about the murder of JonBenét Ramsey is nowhere close to being over, as witnessed by The Killing of JonBenét: Her Father Speaks, an A&E documentary broadcast last night, in which John Ramsey, the father of the six-year-old Boulder girl murdered on Christmas Day, 1996, blasted a CBS series in which a…
The Denver District Attorney’s Office has formally charged ex-Denver police officer Hubert Martin “Marty” Vanover on counts of possession with the intent to manufacture or distribute marijuana or marijuana concentrate, possession of marijuana or marijuana concentrate, and possession of a controlled substance — reportedly methamphetamine. Vanover has had plenty of…
A woman’s body was discovered amid a suspicious fire in Strasburg over the weekend. Now, the blaze is being investigated as a homicide — and an arrest warrant has been issued for 58-year-old Andrew Ausmus, As for the victim, she has yet to be positively identified owing to the damage…
Just days after we published a three-part series about violence on the 16th Street Mall, including a first-hand account of a violent stabbing that had gotten very little press coverage, Denver officials announced a new safety plan for the mall. The plan, which was scheduled to go into effect this week…
Earlier this month, news outlets such as CBS4 reported that a man had been shot and killed near an RTD light-rail station at 29th and Welton Street in Five Points. And while that was true, this location information doesn’t help much when it comes to accurately measuring the number of…
Right now, the FBI is on the lookout for a woman accused of robbing five banks in the metro Denver area wearing an ultra-ugly hairpiece. Hence the nickname bestowed upon her by the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force: the Wicked Wig of the West. The bandit nickname is a…
It’s been almost twenty years since six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was murdered in her Boulder home, but it feels like yesterday. Maybe because it was yesterday, and the day before that, and the one before that, and so on, that we’ve been subjected to a blitz of cheesy re-enactments of the crime on…
Chris Craig took center stage in one of 2013’s most bizarre stories: The former college basketball coach turned self-proclaimed “Islamic jihadist” was investigated but never arrested for publicly announcing that all Catholics and Mormons in Fort Collins “would be destroyed” over a two-week period. Now, however, Craig, who’s previously been treated…
“You’re such a hateful tramp Laura! Since your a Republican and love guns so much, than maybe we should shoot you and that ugly ass family of yours straight in the face.” This line is among the warnings allegedly sent to State Senator Laura Woods by 21-year-old Dylan Hopkins —…
When Nebraska and Oklahoma filed a lawsuit against Colorado late last year, the two states decried additional law enforcement costs they’d accrued due to the passage of Amendment 64, the 2012 measure that legalized limited recreational marijuana sales here. Now, however, Colorado taxpayers are ponying up to prosecute three young…
