Attorney Rob Corry is frequently quoted in this space due to his role as one of the area’s most active and outspoken advocates for marijuana-law reform. His appearance today is about a far-less flattering matter — his arrest last week on misdemeanor charges related to his interactions with the owner…
Prior to last year, Rodney Bretches was an award-winning nineteen-year veteran of the Loveland Police Department with a virtually spotless record. But his career went to hell after he posted a surreptitious video of a woman showering nude — an error in judgment that revealed his possession of child pornography…
The decision earlier this month of 18th Judicial District Judge Carlos Samour allowing accused Aurora theater shooter James Holmes to plead not guilty by reason of insanity keeps the case moving forward — and it’s sure to be one of the most massive prosecutions in the State of Colorado’s history…
Custody fights among estranged couples are all too common. But few are as extreme as the one involving Monty Turner, who’s accused of kidnapping his three-year-old son, Luke, and fleeing with him to Canada. Luke was eventually found and reunited with his mother, Brandy. Now, authorities are throwing a whole…
A well-known figure in the Aspen area, Peter Nardi previously ran an eatery named for him and is currently the day manager and bartender at a local restaurant. But these days, he’s making news well outside the foodie realm. Nardi’s been accused of a sex assault involving a woman with…
The camera pans slowly, lovingly over every gorgeous curve and line — lingering here and there to appreciate the beauty of the video star’s frame. Bicycle frame, that is. The aforementioned footage of a pricey Cannondale Scalpel (see it below) is flat-out porn for bike lovers. But it also provided…
The year began with Manuel Rodriguez being strapped into a restraint chair. It ended with Rodriguez back in the chair. At Colorado’s state supermax prison, inmates get into confrontations with guards — over food, hygiene, privileges, a refusal to “cuff up” or whatever — out of boredom, mental illness or…
We don’t reveal our Schmuck of the Week until Fridays — and there’s no denying that 29-year-old Christopher Snow would have made a great candidate for this sought-after honor. But we just couldn’t wait to tell you about Snow’s bold leap into the ranks of dopey criminals, via an alleged…
Judging by a series of mug shots online, Atlantis Michaelson, age 41, has a thing for changing his appearance — perhaps in the hope of escaping responsibility for past offenses. Too bad for him that changing DNA isn’t nearly so easy. Michaelson was recently arrested in Virginia (where he was…
More than a year ago, we told you about the slaying of Andrea Roan, a much-loved elementary school teacher. Roan was allegedly killed by Ryan Miller, an ex-boyfriend against whom she’d requested a protection order. Now, Miller’s been sentenced for the crime, joining Richard Leavitt, who’d been previously given a…
Beginning last month, the Lakewood Police Department issued regular alerts about David Noren, who was last seen on May 19 — and the urgency increased as investigators became increasingly convinced something bad had happened to him. Now, the mystery of Noren’s whereabouts have been solved, albeit tragically: His body was…
Any government functionary worth his or her bennies knows that the ideal time for a document dump — a release of some embarrassing matter you really don’t want to talk about — is late on Friday afternoon. And that goes double for the report Colorado Attorney General John Suthers saw…
Last July, Dean Carlson was arrested after driving the wrong way on a road near Boulder and causing a crash that left Daniel Mays, 28, gravely injured. Carlson registered nearly triple the legal limit for driving drunk; his record included three prior DUIs. Mays was in a coma for most…
On June 9, 1993 — twenty years ago yesterday — six-year-old Broderick Bell was hit by a random gunshot, kicking off what came to be known as Denver’s Summer of Violence. As can be seen in this 2006 photo, Bell survived, but many others haven’t during the summers that have…
Year four of our Mile High Murder archive, which ended on May 17, was so brutal that we had to break our annual wrap-up into two parts; click here for part one, here for part two. Since then, we haven’t had a single Denver-metro entry. But unfortunately, our streak of…
Governor John Hickenlooper confounded death-penalty advocates and opponents alike last month when he granted a reprieve but not clemency to Nathan Dunlap, who’d been scheduled for execution in August for the 1993 murders of four people. Now David Isberg is hoping the governor will intervene to prevent another “death sentence”…
Back in April, we told you about the Hot Sulphur Springs shooting death of Joshua Stevens at the hands of a prominent couple — a lieutenant with the Grand County Sheriff’s Office and a prosecutor for the 14th Judicial District. Now, Jefferson County DA Pete Weir has ruled that the…
Since we were children, we’ve been trained to think of firefighters as heroic figures who earn our trust by putting the welfare of others before their own. But if the information contained in an arrest affidavit on view below is accurate, Denver firefighter Ronald Asciutto broke that trust in a…
When we designated Bridgette Sandoval a Schmuck of the Week back in February, we admitted that we weren’t sure if her excuse for a police chase and failed escape — she claimed she’d been forcibly injected with heroin and meth — was brilliant or crazy. A better word, we now…
Last week, we told you about the manhunt for Steve Pierce, a convicted sex offender wanted for allegedly molesting a nine-year-old family member; see our previous coverage below. Now, Pierce has been captured a long way from home, at a location in Washington state. But even as law enforcers travel…
James Holmes, accused of killing twelve people and wounding seventy at a July 2012 screening of The Dark Knight Rises at an Aurora theater, has been allowed to plead not guilty by reason of insanity. Judge William Sylvester had previously entered a plea of not guilty on Holmes’s behalf. At…
This months roundup of memorable mug shots is an extremely eclectic collection. Those represented include nationally known accused criminals, a celebrity, a collegiate athlete, a law enforcer accused of having gone awry, a man who many hoped would be dead within months, and a slew of others unknown to the…
