What’s among the qualities Timothy Layne Martinez allegedly likes in women? Unconsciousness. Martinez has been charged with nineteen counts of sexual assault against two women, with the incidents dating back to 2006. Why the delay? Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Pam Russell explains: “Two victims came forward,” Russell says…
Since we started our Mile High Murder series in May, we’ve written about 56 homicides in the immediate area around Denver. Unfortunately, many of these slayings remain unsolved at this writing — but arrests have been made in a sizable percentage of them, resulting in the release of photos capturing…
Reports about medical marijuana-related crime are on the rise. Note our interview with Lt. Jerry Schiager, commander of the Northern Colorado Drug Task Force, who cited “at least five armed robberies, seven burglaries and one kidnapping” related to marijuana in the Fort Collins area over the past year and a…
View Larger Map The Denver Corner’s Office has made victim identifications in three recent killings. The man slain in Mile High Murder No. 54 on November 18 has been identified as Robert Clarke, who’s also known as Stanley Ledbetter. The woman who died in Mile High Murder No. 55 on…
One reason so many parents skip out on child support after a divorce: Given how overburdened the system is, there’s seldom anyone in authority to make them keep the money train rolling. In an attempt to change that equation, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office just conducted what it’s calling Operation…
Look closely at this photo. Can you recognize the adorable little moppet who joined the Family Ties cast in the series’ waning days in a desperate effort to up the show’s cuteness factor? He’s still in there, but he’s hiding. Because he’s afraid. Yep, Brian Bonsall is all grown up…
Sexting: the latest teenage pastime designed to make adults lose their shit. But before you write off the response to the phenomenon as more middlebrow hysteria, grok the particulars of Geovany Alarcon, twenty, who earned a four-year prison jolt in Weld County Court today for giving sexting an even worse…
Last week, we reported on the bludgeoning death of inmate Ronald Ferguson, a convicted child molester, at the Colorado Territorial Correctional Facility outside of Canon City. A fifty-year-old habitual offender serving time for kidnapping and sexual assault on a child, Ferguson was struck repeatedly in the head with a metal…
Banks have had plenty of troubles during our ongoing economic crisis — but they’ve still got more money than the rest of us, which explains in part why there’s been such a rash of robberies of late. Just yesterday, we told you about the $83 Bandit, who’s allegedly removed booty…
Late last month, the Denver Police Department began rounding up more than thirty African-Americans accused of robbing and/or beating men and women because they were either Caucasian or Hispanic. Now, the last of the at-large suspects — Allen Ford, 18 — has been taken into custody; he was busted late…
The men and women of FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force (spotlighted in a 2008 Westword feature) have something in common with former President George W. Bush — they love nicknames. Like, for instance, the $83 Bandit. If the feds are right, Mr. Ocho-Tres has cleared a lot more…
Back in August, former Mormon bishop Shawn Merriman pleaded not guilty to mail fraud charges against him — something that we predicted was “a temporary situation” in a blog about alleged swindles dating back to 1994. Bingo. Yesterday, Merriman pleaded guilty to one count of mail fraud and one count…
More evidence that the three most important letters in cold cases these days are DNA — the apparent solving of a Weld County murder dating back to 1977. In August of that year, Mary Pierce, 22, was abducted, raped and murdered in Greeley. More than a quarter-century later, DNA evidence…
If William Thalley has been aiming for a career as a novelist or screenwriter, he probably should reconsider. After all, the stories he’s told about shooting his three-year old in the leg haven’t been deemed believable by his most important audience — the Denver District Attorney’s Office. At first, Thalley…
View Larger Map On November 12, a woman was stabbed at a bus stop near the intersection of West Colfax Avenue and Winona Court, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Afterward, the Denver Police Department linked this case…
Old-timers who bitch that young people today don’t have enough ambition obviously never met four juveniles taken into custody early yesterday. According to Lakewood Police Department spokesman Steve Davis, this quartet managed to swipe five cars before being busted — and afterward, one of them asked if they’d “set a…
After news broke in October about Ricky Lee Harnish facing a likely ten-to-24-year sentence for the 1976 rape and murder of teenager Holly Andrews, even Clear Creek County Sheriff Don Krueger admitted to mixed emotions. But no such confusion afflicted Linda Andrews, wife of Holly’s brother, Dave. As she said…
If anything, that line about a picture being worth a thousand words understates the impact of the just-released photo here, which shows Lakewood’s Marcus Leyba while being booked on Thanksgiving for child abuse resulting in death — the child in question being his three-month old. According to Lakewood Police Department…
What’s most amazing about an attempt by the man seen here to steal an ATM in Boulder by ripping it from its moorings using a stolen U-Haul truck isn’t that he thought the scheme might actually work. It’s that he hasn’t been caught yet. Maybe he’s not as stupid as…
Lockup, MSNBC’s voyeuristic peek at life inside America’s nastiest prisons, launched its new season Saturday (*corrected) night with some cell floodings and tough talk by thick-necked inmates at Colorado’s own Limon Correctional Facility. This season (titled “Extended Stay: Colorado”) will focus on Limon, a simmering high-security hoosegow that houses close…
A couple of new photos join our gallery of men and women accused in a series of what the Denver Police Department describes as racially motivated attacks that have taken place in the city in recent months. That’s because two juvenile suspects, Ashley Celestine and Kavean McCloud, are among the…
Matt Sowash, the former head of the Amateur Poker Tour, has been sentenced to five years in prison and five years of probation for illegal actions related to his attempts to solicit investors in a new poker tour that would have held tournaments in bars. Sowash and business partner Andrew…
