The Colorado Attorney General’s Office accuses nineteen-year-old Dallas Cardenas of being a pimp — but that’s not all. As shown in a wide-ranging indictment on view below, Cardenas also faces charges of trafficking in adults and children, since one of the two women he’s said to have forced into sex-for-pay…
Nadine Montoya has been sentenced to life in prison without parole plus 32 years for murdering a 49-year-old Aurora woman in a hit-and-run at a Denver Burger King last May. Montoya, 27, was convicted last month. A jury found her guilty of crushing Lilian Verdonkschot with her Cadillac DeVille after…
On the State of Kansas’s website, 73-year-old Brooks Kellogg is celebrated as a success story for building an entertainment center in Hays. But there’s a good chance this salute won’t be long for the Internet. That’s because the FBI arrested him earlier this week at Denver International Airport on a…
Update:Brandon Mondragon has been formally charged in the hit-and-run incident that badly injured Tim Albo and Heather Kornman. In addition, an arrest warrant has been released revealing that Mondragon had a passenger at the time of the crash, which took place after the two of them left a prominent local…
Update:According to the Denver Police Department, a welfare request from Liz Tomocik’s employer led officers to a murder-suicide at 777 N. Washington Street, with Tomocik subsequently determined to have killed Gerald Cler and then shot herself. Now we know the identity of that employer. Tomocik worked at the office of…
Oh, the irony. Shortly after we learned Highlands Ranch’s Chris Bartkowicz will plead guilty today to federal marijuana counts in exchange for a five-year stipulated sentence, the Denver District Attorney’s Office announced that it’s charged three men — Aris Minter, Donjure Walker and Raymond Ramirez — with stealing pot in…
Creepster alert: Colorado Springs Police are on the lookout for a man who allegedly stalked a woman at an area King Soopers, then put his arm around her neck and fondled her breasts and behind until she convinced him to stop with a well-placed elbow. That kinda thing may be…
According to the Broomfield Police Department, two female clients of massage therapist Shouchun Han experienced the opposite of a happy ending at his hands. Their claims of inappropriate touching during rubdowns have led to an investigation of possible unlawful sexual contact and sexual assault charges. Page down to get details…
Here at the Criminal Affairs Desk, we get letters from inmates. Boy, do we get letters. But one recent missive from a Colorado prisoner offers some of the best advice we’ve ever heard for negotiating a long stretch in the state prison system. Such as: Don’t ask, don’t snitch. Keep…
Denver cop Hector Paez allegedly made a woman he’d arrested an unpleasant offer: perform a sex act on him or go to jail. She presumably chose the former — and as a result, he’s experiencing the latter. He’s been booked on a series of charges, including sexual assault. Page down…
Update: The victim of a Friday homicide at Aurora’s Crestwood Suites has been identified as Michael Pinkus, 51. He owned a residence that was burglarized on East Baltic Circle — the crime that led police to discovery his body. Also ID’d is a man accused of taking part in the…
At 8:30 a.m., Lacy Lee will go on trial for smoking marijuana at a pro-cannabis event — unless, that is, Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper grants a request expressed in a letter on view below from attorney Rob Corry, who represents Lee, and asks the city attorney to drop the case…
Last week, we told you about the vacating of a murder conviction for David Bueno, a prisoner found guilty of killing a fellow con in 2004. In the piece, attorney David Lane accused the 18th Judicial District DA’s office, led by Carol Chambers, of hiding evidence in the case, described…
In May, we shared our collection of the 30 most memorable mug shots of 2010 up until then. But there have been a lot of riveting images released since then — including candids of Osama hunter Gary Faulkner, Western Slope district attorney Myrl Serra and Jacob Joseph Medina, seen here,…
You know times are tough when stealing heavy storm grates for their scrap value seems like a reasonable way to make money. But that’s what the folks at the Denver Police Department think Richard Goodface and Duane Brown have been doing. They’ve both been booked on investigation of felony theft…
In January, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office announced that Joseph Trujillo faced a first-degree murder charge in the death of his five-month old, who died alone while he was out drinking. A week later, the charge against Trujillo was lessened to child abuse resulting in death, to which he pleaded…
Yesterday, we told you John Elway was among the investors allegedly scammed by accused Ponzi schemer Sean Mueller. Now comes news that Elway and a partner invested $15 million a month before Mueller reportedly tried to commit suicide — an act that led to his unmasking…
Yesterday, Sean Mueller was charged with racketeering and other counts in association with an alleged Ponzi scheme that he ran over the span of a decade. Denver Broncos legend John Elway was among 65 folks who invested a reported $71 million with Mueller, whose unmasking was precipitated by a suicide…
Cigarettes are extremely pricey these days — but has the cost gotten so high that they’re worth risking an armed robbery beef? That’s one way to interpret the story of a fifteen-year old from Castle Rock, who avoided paying for smokes by pulling a gun…
Yvonne Frye, 62, a much-loved professor at the Community College of Denver, was killed last week in a crash for which twenty-year-old Jose Nevarez-Coronado has been charged with vehicular homicide. Nevarez-Coronado was allegedly drunk — but not in the country illegally, as the Denver Post claimed yesterday…
In an October 8 press release, the Aurora Police Department described the discovery of a body at 1931 North Clinton Street as “suspicious.” But there’s been radio silence beyond that until this afternoon, when APD spokesman Detective Bob Friel confirmed that the case is being investigated as a homicide…
“If you are looking for a blend of personal service and expertise, you have come to the right place!. I offer a broad range of services for business owners, executives and independent professionals.” So reads the welcome message on Fort Collins CPA David Zamzow’s website. No mention of theft, fraud…
