There’s a reason raccoons wear masks. They’re natural bandits. But there’s a better way of dealing with such a rapscallion than beating him to death with a bat and then skewering him with a machete — which is precisely what three students, including Nicholas Foti (whose Facebook page features some…
Talk about a timely crime. During the run-up to the release of the sure-to-suck Breaking Dawn — Part 1, a woman thought to be Emi Coleman allegedly took the vampire craze a little too personally. She’s accused of biting two people on the neck during a visit to a convenience…
Update: It was a terrible story — a report that two small dogs, named Latte and Swag, were found dead on Sunday morning, apparently after having been shot to death by a BB gun or small caliber weapon. But appearances can be deceiving. After the Denver Police Department offered a…
Update below: Most of us don’t need to be told not to take hallucinogens before going rock climbing. But apparently Jon Schuttenberg is an exception to this rule. Rescuers called to help him and a buddy as they headed to the First Flatiron found them endangered mainly by their loopy…
Update: On November 4, Thomas Bashline, a 42-year-old who occasionally worked as a trainer for the Harlem Globetrotters, was found murdered in his Frederick home. Speculation about a motive included allusions to a Bashline side business testing athletes for performance enhancing drugs. But now, Fox31 is reporting that a suspect…
According to a witness, Devon Weinstein deliberately broke the legs of a seven-month-old girl, Faith Woodward. He was originally given a 21-year jolt for his crimes. But now, a judge has reduced his sentence, making it possible he could be set free as soon as next year. Why? That’s what…
A terrifying scene unfolded during the early hours of this morning in Lakewood. Information is still being gathered. But at this writing, we know that a man allegedly took two women hostage at knifepoint, precipitating a tense standoff involving police that ended with the accused and his victims hospitalized, albeit…
What to do if you’ve called 911 about two men about to break into your house but the cops haven’t arrived? One Colorado Springs woman responded by screaming — loudly — as captured on a police recording below. And the tactic worked, as cops managed to collar a pair of…
As a Grand Junction native, I can assure you that the Western Slope town has never been known as the Naked City — and it won’t now, despite the exploits of Leslie Lind, who allegedly committed a robbery while displaying his moneymaker and a lot more. The reason? Lind kept…
Craigslist is a great way to sell stuff, whether it belongs to you or not. But eighteen-year-old Denzel O’Neal Crawford learned the service also gives ballsy crime victims the opportunity to reclaim their property. That’s precisely what Boulder’s Kathryn Lucas did with her stolen bicycle…
Decorative Concrete Finishes’ Anthony Harvey is the star and narrator of videos on his YouTube channel in which he and his crew reveal how an average backyard can be transformed into a showplace; see examples below. However, his current spotlight time doesn’t focus on his skills as an artisan, but…
In June, Matthew Weatherspoon claimed that he had repeatedly slashed a five-month-old bulldog puppy in the face out of self-defense. “I’m not a crocodile hunter,” he announced. Neither is he in jail — not now. But he’s been given thirty months of supervised mental health probation and more for the…
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 is the latest iteration of the ultra-popular first-person shooter challenge in which a player must gun down opponents before they can splatter him with his own blood. Fortunately, most fans are able to separate fantasy from reality — but the jury’s still out on…
A federal judge has ruled that Darrell Havens can proceed with his lawsuit against the Arvada police officer who shot him during a car-theft sting operation in 2007, leaving him a quadriplegic. The decision has Havens’ attorneys poised to conduct a fresh investigation of the controversial case, in which they…
From what we understand from past scofflaws and couples who enjoy the use of restraints in the bedroom, being fitted with handcuffs can be painful. But probably not as painful as the special gift Peter VanVolkinburg is accused of giving a female police officer when she tried cuffing him –…
The details of criminal cases are often grabbier than the basic facts — literally so in the case of Lori Ann Waldo. Reporting to date about her arrest for allegedly putting the squeeze on a bar employee’s genitals missed what the victim says she planned to do with them, and…
The arrest affidavit pertaining to John Vasquez and Marie Marone is one of the most chilling documents you’re ever likely to read — which is appropriate given that their busts may finally close an eleven-year-old cold case. The allegation: that the couple killed a disabled woman, Renee Ealy, just to…
Famous rappers have it all — booze, bucks and broads. Phony rappers, on the other hand, take what they can get. And criminal phony rappers do it by force. Which brings us to Fernando Archuleta, who’s accused of using bogus rap credentials to rape a fourteen-year-old…
A twenty-year jolt for stealing gasoline? Seems a little excessive, doesn’t it? Then again, former state highway worker Jaime Perez didn’t just sneak a tank or two. He’s accused of fronting a giant fuel-swiping plot that cost Colorado more than $440,000…
An October 30 house fire claimed the lives of two young children — Alvira and Timothy Ramirez, ages two and three, respectively. Now, the Aurora Police has busted their mom, Danielle Lynn Brockman, on suspicion of child abuse/negligence resulting in death. The reason: The kids had reportedly been left home…
The police-report description of a rape committed back in 2008 is incredibly horrific — and so is the fact that no one was arrested for the crime for more than three years. Now, however, a cold-case hit points the DNA finger of blame at 31-year-old Manuel McGee. How was he…
Thus far, Charles Edward Waters, a 56-year-old homeless man, has not yet been formally charged in an early Friday double stabbing that left one man dead and another one wounded, and the victim has yet to be identified. But the police report, on view below, offers a brutal account of…
