Poor Joe Nacchio! The Denver U.S. District judge who handled his resentencing hearing just shaved two months off of his six-year, all-expenses-paid vacation at a plush Pennsylvania Country Club Prison. But don’t feel sorry for him: He still gets to keep all of the money he stole from US West…
Yesterday, the U.S. Attorneys Office announced the latest busts in its Operation Cripsland campaign — eight arrests on weapon and drug charges to supplement a roundup of nine others last year. As a bonus, the feds include the nicknames of the men snagged, including Rock, Lil Walt and Ken Dog…..
If you’re a woman in Boulder who likes to enjoy the great outdoors, you can’t be reassured by the latest release from the Boulder Police department. Shortly after news broke about an attack on a hiker on the Foothills Trail, we’re learning about an earlier incident on the Boulder Creek…
Being a policeman — and we’re using a gender-specific term for a reason — is tough under the best circumstances. But some days are worse than others. Take the Boulder cop who responded to a domestic violence call, only to allegedly be given a rack job by the woman who’d…
If the Weld County Sheriff’s Office is correct, Christian Hanson, 21, has been a busy — and bad — man. He was already in custody on kidnapping and sexual assault beefs. But now, he’s also suspected in a murder-for-hire plot that led to the more recent arrest of Jesse Rodriguez,…
One gutsy Colorado Springs man is facing hard time after he filed a fraudulent lien against the home of an IRS agent in retaliation for a lien the IRS placed on his home. Ronald Roy Hoodenpyle, come on down!…
The release from the Boulder Police Department about an alleged assault that took place yesterday on the Foothills Trail involving an unnamed woman and Michael Gonzales-Davis notes that she managed to “fight him off.” But the details of her response make her achievement seem much more impressive. The woman reportedly…
A day after the Marcus Duran shooting was ruled a justifiable homicide amid reports that the homeowner who fired the fatal shots has received threats, another potential Make-My-Day incident took place — this one in Colorado Springs. The Springs-area homeowner reportedly shot at two men trying to bust into his…
In March, we shared a mug shot gallery of Denver’s fifty most wanted criminals — and McConney Bronson placed fifteenth. Now, he’s number seven in the second year of our Mile High Murder blog — and Pernell Hines is a suspect in the incident…
The homicide that took place yesterday afternoon two blocks east of Monaco on 39th Avenue, near Martin Luther King Park, is turning into a pretty open-and-shut case. Police responding to a call about two men in a loud argument arrived at the scene only to find one of the men…
Murders, forgers, tax evaders. They’re all scumbags to varying degrees, but none is as scummy as the sex offender. And while you’d never know if you had a multiple murderer living next to you, sex offenders have to register. A lot of them don’t, which has a lot to do…
Charlie Sheen was supposed to sign off on a sweet plea bargain last week. Rumor has it that the Pitkin County Sheriff is recommending a work-release program for the actor in exchange for his pleading no contest to felony menacing and 3rd-degree assault and criminal mischief in connection with his…
Every week we explore the annals of recent shmuckdom. This week: An alleged murderer who accidentally wound up in Houston. Some weeks the shmucks just reach out and grab you. This was one of those weeks, thanks to the sinister moron Franklin Gonzalo Sierra-Rodriguez. Sierra-Rodriguez is accused of driving from…
It’s a thrill a minute in the police blotter featured in the YourHub.com print edition for Lakewood and Edgewater (the items aren’t online). First up is a mom who calls the cops on her drunk son. And then, the coup de grâce — a man found in his car with…
These days, we’re accustomed to cold cases heating up due to DNA evidence of the sort that earned Tim Masters $10 million for a false murder conviction. But DNA wasn’t a factor in the arrest this week of Dean Evan Scott for the 2002 murder of Willie Robinson. Aurora Police…
Two associates of Willie Clark, who was convicted in March of Broncos cornerback Darrent Williams’s 2007 murder, were sentenced today to a year in prison each for refusing to testify at his trial, despite the fact that prosecutors say they were with Clark when he shot into Williams’ limo. As…
Update, 3:33 p.m.: Read it below the original 11:47 a.m. item. The Nuggets’ J.R. Smith had a rough season, spending more time in the doghouse than outside it. But the doghouse may have been safer than the Cherry Hills Country Club mansion he’s been renting. Burglars messed with his Mercedes,…
Shortly after nabbing the Bad Hat Bandit, the folks at the Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force are hoping to pluck a guy they’ve nicknamed the Perennial Bandit. He’s thought to have hit the same Bank of the West branch twice, almost exactly a year apart. Spring has sprung, and…
Boulder District Attorney Stan Garnett, who’s challenging John Suthers for the job of Colorado Attorney General, was able to burnish his law-and-order credentials today via the actions of a grand jury, which just handed down a 127-count, seventeen-person indictment aimed at a Longmont drug ring. Charges include racketeering and theft…
Reports that Charlie Sheen’s plea deal on domestic violence charges in Aspen is faltering because he won’t be allowed to smoke while on work release have left some of us court-watchers flummoxed. After all, Aspen is a celebrity-prone place. You’d think all that experience accommodating the special needs of hyper-extended…
Update, 4:32 p.m.: DA’s Office spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough says today’s scheduled hearing was continued to 12:45 p.m. on Thursday. Previous update and item below. Update, 12:13 p.m.: Mario Anderson and Kataina “Markie” Jackson-Keeling, who didn’t show up on time for a sentencing hearing yesterday, are in custody. They’re now slated…
The horrible story of Stephanie Rochester, the apparently perfect Superior mom arrested on suspicion that she killed her infant son, Rylan, just got worse. A newly released affidavit (check it out below) details her ultimately successful efforts to smother the boy, motivated by her fears that he was autistic…
