Rick Ferguson was a member of the Boulder Sheriff’s Office for thirty years — an impressive run by any measure. But it’s come to an end, at least for now, and in an extremely distressing way. This week, Ferguson was arrested on five counts, most pertaining to Internet luring of…
Ex-Arapahoe County Sheriff Pat Sullivan, busted for allegedly trading meth for sex, has now bonded out of the Patrick J. Sullivan Detection Facility, a jail named for him. But officials still plan to revisit the policy of naming public buildings after living people. And Commissioner Rod Bockenfeld thinks honoring dead…
At one time or another, we’ve all wondered if the average person cares about our personal welfare. But Noah Miranda allegedly took things a step further, conducting a survey on the question. One person at a time. In the middle of a street. In the dark. While drunk…
Update, 10:09 a.m.: The Denver coroner’s office has no identified the man who died after a report of a shooting on Robins Drive last Friday. The victim was Dwayne Morris, eighteen. He died six hours or so after being transported to Children’s Hospital with a gunshot wound to the neck…
Martin Lobatos must be a really good driver, because he passed his test with no sweat when he was supposedly on the verge of catatonia. That was par for the course in one of the weirdest-ever workman’s comp cases — a years-long scam for which Lobatos and his wife, Belen,…
There’s a lot of weirdness circling around 32-year-old Scott Mendias. Right now, he’s recovering from a gunshot wound at the hands of police after he allegedly reached for what turned out to be a toy weapon — an incident only slightly less bizarre than one that had landed him behind…
It’s been a crazy month for Colorado crime, and we’ve got the mug shots to prove it. Page down below to see pics of everyone from the woman who grabbed a bar staffer’s balls in a way that went beyond friendliness to the former Arapahoe County sheriff behind bars in…
Disconnects are common in the Pat Sullivan story — first due to the contrast between his former image as a nationally recognized Arapahoe County sheriff and allegations that he traded meth for sex, and now as a result of his first court appearance, in which the little old man tottering…
As owner of Off Leash Dog Training in Loveland, Ryan Matthews boasted about the effectiveness of his methods. In fact, the last four digits of the business’ phone number spelled out the word “OBEY.” Turns out, though, that his approach to schooling his own dog wasn’t just questionable but criminal…
Early on the Sunday after Thanksgiving, a body was reportedly discovered in Grant-Frontier Park. Now, the Denver coroner’s office has identified the man as Michael Martinez — and has determined that the cause of death was homicide…
Tough to miss the irony: After his arrest for allegedly trying to trade meth for sex with a male acquaintance, Pat Sullivan was incarcerated in the Patrick J. Sullivan Jr. Detention Facility, the jail named for him after a distinguished law enforcement career capped by eighteen years as Arapahoe County…
The allegation is shocking: Colorado Springs Police believe Marcus Smith, 21, killed Kathryn “Kit” Grazioli, an 87-year-old former church deacon, and burned her body. This act contrasts strongly with an apology letter he wrote in regard to the theft of a computer and DVDs two years ago…
Sure, The Grinch Who Stole Christmas is a holiday classic. But wouldn’t it be even better with a car crash and an on-foot police chase? Judge for yourself after hearing the seasonal tale of Vincente Romero, who’s accused of Grinchy behavior and vehicular mayhem that had nothing to do with…
All too often, we hear allegations about teachers like Terah Rawlings perving on underage students. But a kid being lured into an illicit relationship with a school janitor? Does that really happen? Longmont Police officers think so, at least in the case of 24-year-old Travis Bowden and his reported victim,…
Occupy protesters kept occupied over Thanksgiving week. While Occupy Wall Street crews prepared to descend on Black Friday shoppers, Thunderdome supporters greeted Governor John Hickenlooper and Mayor Michael Hancock at the Denver Rescue Mission…and Boulder cops had their own welcoming committee for the Occupy Boulder demonstrators, rousting them for their…
Last week, the Denver Police Department warned the public “to be vigilant and report suspicious activity while in the downtown area,” reporting that there have been fifteen robberies or assaults in the past few months, often involving more than one person. Three of those fifteen happened at the same location:…
News that reporter Deborah Sherman is out at 9News — and the dearth of details as to why — has dragged disgraced doctor Louis Hampers into the news again. Sherman claims former ER doc Hampers stalked her after she broke a second date with him. In a civil lawsuit she…
On Sunday night, four Larimer County Jail inmates allegedly squirted a feces-and-urine blend at deputies using shampoo bottles, causing a significant flood in the process. Unprecedented? Not according to Larimer County Sheriff’s Office public information officer John Schulz, who says such coordination is uncommon, but not the use of bodily…
The arrest in Chicago of Father Richard James Kurtz, a Jesuit priest, for alleged sex assault on an underage male victim in Colorado is disturbing, obviously, but also puzzling. After all, the crime was reportedly committed and reported to authorities in 2001. So why did it take a decade to…
In June, avid bicyclist Eugene Howrey, age 73, was struck and killed by a dump truck driven by Christopher Loven, a man with a number of past run-ins with pedalers. In the years prior to the Lowrey tragedy, he was allegedly involved in two separate bike-rage incidents. Months later, the…
Update below: It didn’t take long for the Colorado Springs Police Department to draw a bead on the man captured by security cameras robbing a branch of the Indispensary medical marijuana center. Robert Cody James, nineteen, is currently in custody, due in part to his decision to stick around the…
The accusation that teacher Terah Rawlings had an ongoing sexual relationship with a fifteen-year-old student is bad enough. But other circumstances push the alleged crime into even creepier territory. For one thing, Rawlings was employed at a religious school. For another, administrators are said to have known about the issue…
