James Damon and Georgie Hand were reportedly partners in crime. However, they haven’t suffered the same fate. Damon was killed in an officer-involved shooting after he and Hand allegedly took a deputy and a Colorado Parks and Wildlife official hostage. Afterward, Hand was taken into custody — and she’s facing…
All crimes impact people beyond the immediate victims. Friends, family, loved ones and others even more tangentially connected can feel the effect. But the ripples from alleged offenses at schools can spread even further, as I was reminded when news broke that Steven Weigum, principal at Ute Meadows Elementary, had…
Don’t go quietly. If the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office is right, Charles Kettering not only lives by this maxim, but he’s capable of taking it to a whole new level. One that includes kicking, urination, defecation and a complete disregard for sprinkler systems. The photo gallery on Kettering’s Facebook page…
Sky Wodraska’s name suggests peace and love — but the latest offenses he’s been accused of committing are among the most hateful imaginable. They include attempted murder, assault, kidnapping and child abuse, with one of the victims being a fourteen-year-old girl who continues to fight for her life at this writing…
On January 9, Sharod Kindell, a 23-year-old Denver native who’d had repeated run-ins with the police, was shot in his vehicle and severely wounded by Denver police officer Jeffrey DiManna. Kindell’s story, which we told in “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot,” our February 5 cover piece, has helped inspire growing discontent…
At a time when there’s more scrutiny than ever on police shootings in metro Denver, it’s more than a little surprising how little information has been released about the killing of a man near Laredo Elementary School in Aurora. Days after the man was gunned down by officers in broad…
Whenever there’s a homicide related to marijuana, critics frequently use it as an example of how pot legalization leads to crime. This case will be more difficult to make when it comes to Lucas Johnson. The man accused of killing Edward Zimmerman, reportedly a marijuana grower in Routt County, has…
This past week wasn’t a particularly bright one for criminal justice reform advocates in Colorado, as two high-profile parolees fell under scrutiny for less-than-stellar behavior. First came a 9News report about how Joaquin Garcia, a 30-year-old man with a criminal past that includes gang activity and car theft, is currently…
Last year, we shared multiple reports about the murder of Aspen socialite Nancy Pfister. Three people were arrested for the crime: William Styler, a former Denver-area doctor, his wife, Nancy Styler, and ex-bank employee Katharine Carpenter. However, only William Styler was convicted, despite an affidavit suggesting that he would have…
Last October, we told you about the arrest of Brandon Hansen, who was accused of surreptitiously taking videos of naked women in tanning booths. Additionally, he allegedly spent a full day grabbing up-skirt footage at a Denver Pavilions escalator. Now, Hansen has reportedly pleaded guilty to forty charges that had been…
supporting all other counts in this Indictment are incorporated herein by reference. 2. From at least January 3, 2014, until March 4, 2015, Quinetta Hunter, Tasha Monique Phillips aka Tasha Tate, Ernest Ray Daniels, Matrice Lena Ford, Shaqweila Miree Phillips, Tony Javon Jamar Phillips, Tashena Spring Reid, Destinee Segura, and…
We’ve all done it — gone up to a vehicle in a parking lot that looked like ours only to discover it was actually someone else’s. In general, though, we don’t get stabbed for making this mistake. That’s apparently what happened to a customer of a strip club in Grand…
Chuck Limbrick makes a cameo appearance in Dietrick Mitchell’s Life Sentence Was Commuted Four Years Ago — So Why Is He Still in Prison?, Alan Prendergast’s recent feature article. Like Mitchell, Limbrick had been sentenced to life without the possibility of parole — for, in the latter’s case, killing his…
As a lot of us know from personal experience, working at a fast-food restaurant can be dull. Even so, there are certain ways we don’t recommend to pass the time. Like, for instance, firing off a rifle so close to a neighborhood that the bullets riddle multiple homes. That’s what…
At this writing, Leonard Martinez has not yet been formally accused of homicide in the death of his former girlfriend in Lakewood last week. But rest assured, this charge is coming. He was originally arrested on suspicion of assault and attempted murder. However, the situation changed when his victim, 21-year-old…
Last night was bitterly cold in Denver, with steady light snow — the kind of weather then tends to tamp down crime. But the conditions apparently didn’t prevent a significant street crime. According to the Denver Police Department, four individuals are under arrest, accused of shooting at a DPD vehicle…
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The gang known as Gallant Knights Insane has been operating in the Denver area for years. Now, three brothers — Jimmy, Michael and Timmy Valanzuela — who are thought to have been founding members of the organization have been indicted by a Jefferson County grand jury, along with three alleged associates: Tanya…
Kelly Mae Myers was reported missing in the Grand Junction area in late December. At first, law enforcers didn’t classify her case as a crime because evidence suggested she may have left of her own free will — and because she was eighteen, such a choice was perfectly within her…
Back in January, we told you about a Colorado Springs bombing that struck a complex that included the local NAACP office. The working theory early on was that the NAACP had been the target of the attack — and as we noted, the organization’s president, Cornell William Brooks, scheduled a…
Denver has seen more than its share of controversial police shootings, including the one that took the life of seventeen-year-old Jessie Hernandez last month. The same can be said of Weld County, which has experienced four fatal police shootings over the past eight months. The most recent of these involved…
It was one of the most shocking stories of 2014 — one whose details seemed too terrible to be true. But apparently they were. Jena Harman and her boyfriend, Alexander Smith, have reportedly pleaded guilty to keeping her seven-year-old child in caged outdoors on their remote Wyoming property — even…
