On October 23, Chopsticks & Sushi owner Yan De Yang was arrested for investigation of first-degree murder in regard to a shooting that took place at his restaurant during the previous afternoon, causing areas near the busy 16th Street Mall to be closed to traffic for hours. Well, the investigation…
There are pros and cons to burglarizing a police officer, as someone did in Northglenn on Friday; a loaded Glock 26 handgun and a friend’s 2005 PT Cruiser were among the items swiped. On the positive side, you gain legendary status among your fellow felons: “Robbed a cop? Stole his…
Club Posh, at 4040 E. Evans, debuted on February 20, and judging by our slideshow from opening night, a good time was had by all. But the fun was less universal during the early hours of November 1, when Halloween revelry ended with three shooting victims: one found by Denver…
Congratulations, Patrick Moat, Ryan Spear and Brian Coshnitzke. You’ve just put your marks in the History of Stupid Criminals — marks shaped like the footprints in the snow police were able to follow to your door. Greenwood Village Police Lieutenant Randy Corbitt tells the story, which gets dumber, and funnier,…
View Larger Map At times, inclement weather cuts down on people murdering each other. But that wasn’t the case early this morning, when police found a man suffering from gunshot wounds that soon killed him behind Sunrise Restaurant, 9115 East Colfax, an area captured in the graphic above (if you…
How convincing a cop was a 24-year-old Colorado Springs man currently being held on felony police-impersonation charges? Well, the vehicle he used was a gray 1995 Cadillac sedan, the sort of car preferred by eighty-year-old retirees or ride-pimpers getting ready for Cinco de Mayo, not the police. Instead of a…
UPDATED, October 29, 1:45 p.m.: The participants in this bloody no-love triangle have been named, and we’ve got a photo of the stabber, below the original item: Not all mash-ups work: Even Glee-master Will Schuester couldn’t figure out how to meld “I Could Have Danced All Night” from My Fair…
Palmer Elementary secretary Jennifer Carter has been formally charged with two misdemeanors in relation to an incident last week, when she allegedly dealt with a misbehaving six-year-old student by taping his hands together and his mouth shut. Startling stuff, but hardly unique. Indeed, accounts of alleged abuse or mistreatment of…
UPDATE, October 27: The Denver Coroner’s Office has released specifics about the death of Matthew Dailey, infant son of Stephen Dailey, who’s been charged with first-degree murder in the case — and it’s clear why from the description of the boy’s injuries: At 5:25 PM on October 17, 2009 the…
Last December, Catholic-school teacher Balazs Toth drove to a West Colfax McDonalds in the hopes of doing nasty things with a youngster he’d lured there using the Internet. Instead, he hooked up with members of the Denver Police Department, who promptly busted him — and in June, he was sentenced…
Miguel Angel Caro-Quintero, 46, who entered a guilty plea Friday in regard to charges against him in Colorado and Arizona, isn’t just any drug peddler. As one of the reputed leaders of Mexico’s Sonora cartel, he became the stuff of legend — and given that he’s now admitted to trafficking…
The murder at Chopsticks & Sushi Restaurant, which caused hours’ worth of traffic closures yesterday afternoon in the vicinity of the 16th Street Mall, was startling enough. But try on this development for size: The Denver Police Department has announced that Chopsticks’ owner, Yan De Yang, 40, has been arrested…
When does the media give big play to a murder of an unknown individual? Like real estate, it’s all about location, location, location — but timing is a factor, too, as proven by the coverage of yesterday afternoon’s shooting at Chopsticks & Sushi Restaurant, 1630 Welton Street, on the 16th…
One week ago today, shots rang out at 1150 North Syracuse Street, an apartment complex — and shortly thereafter, Keyru Mustafa Lolo, 24, was dead. Given that Lolo was a recent immigrant from Ethiopia, his case might not have ordinarily been treated as a high priority — but Lolo’s large…
I’m a proud native of the Western Slope, and when I grew up in Grand Junction, the main substance we had to worry about was uranium. Those were the days. Now, reports about meth busts are the opposite of unusual — although few can compare to the feds’ roundup of…
This week’s feature, “The Forgotten,” explores an option for cutting prison costs that Governor Bill Ritter hasn’t tried — clemency for prisoners who may have received excessively long sentences and pose little risk to public safety. The article explores some of the more obvious kinds of sentencing inequities — nonviolent…
Many observers were shocked by the bargain prosecutors struck with Ricky Lee Harnish, who has confessed to killing teenager Holly Andrews in 1976 — ten to 24 years in exchange for a second-degree murder plea. Even Clear Creek Sheriff Don Krueger admitted to “mixed emotions” about the length of the…
For a certain brand of pervert, working as a coach at a kids gymnastics school would constitute a dream job — and if the Aurora Police Department has 35-year-old James Craig pegged right, that dream is over. Craig, who worked at the Saddle Rock School of Gymnastics, has been arrested…
This week’s Westword feature, “The Quality of Mercy,” looks at an option for cutting prison costs that Governor Bill Ritter hasn’t tried — reducing prison time for inmates who may have received excessively long sentences and are unlikely to pose a risk to public safety. The cases discussed in the…
You remember David McCoy, right? According to the Boulder Police Department, McCoy says he operated a media business called (I’m not making this up) Zeus Pegasus International, and a while back, he advertised for a camera operator — and a man from New Jersey flew to Boulder to apply. Upon…
In February 2008, as detailed in the recent Westword stories “Up in Smoke” and “Tales of the Dragon,” DEA agents and north metro narcotics detectives uncovered an indoor marijuana ring the likes of which Colorado had never seen. As part of “Operation Fortune Cookie,” investigators hauled more than 24,000 high-grade…
View Larger Map At this point, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office hasn’t officially declared a couple found dead yesterday in unincorporated Jefferson County to have perished amid a murder-suicide. But given the scene on the 11100 block of West Oregon Place, an area captured in the graphic above (if you…
