Back in March, we told you about the arrest of Sky Wodraska. The Breckenridge man was busted for attempted murder, assault, kidnapping and child abuse, with one of the victims being a fourteen-year-old girl who reportedly greeted the officer who rescued her after being stabbed with these words: “Don’t let…
Back in October 2014, we told you about the arrest of Scot Copher for allegedly trying to hire a fellow prisoner to kill a teenager he’d abused for years. Not long before, another prisoner, Christian Harvey, had been acquitted of a similar hit scheme hatched behind bars. Not Copher. He’s…
Last week, we shared body camera footage of Trinidad Officer Ron Arlint killing Todd Dye, a wanted man hiding in a supposedly abandoned trailer. In that case, the video exonerated Arlint, since it showed Dye pulling a weapon and the officer returning fatal fire. A new body camera clip out…
Drug warriors hated Amendment 64, a 2012 measure that aimed to legalize limited recreational marijuana sales in Colorado. But A64’s passage hardly struck a fatal blow against the War on Drugs, as a pair of events last week demonstrate. On Friday, the United Nations issued its 2015 World Drug Report,…
One of the selling points for pedicabs is that people who’ve overindulged can use them to travel safely from place to place. But that wasn’t the case for one Denver woman. After passing out in a pedicab, she awoke semi-nude in a downtown alley to discover that she’d been sexually…
Last August, Denver mayor Michael Hancock and Denver Police Chief Robert White appeared on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show to tout the use of body cameras. Now, an incident in Trinidad provides a particularly vivid reason why municipalities should welcome body cameras, rather than opposing them. The body-camera video from the…
Today brings word that Dustin Diamond, the actor who will forever be known as Screech from Saved by the Bell, will serve four months in jail for a barroom stabbing in Wisconsin. This news, and the fact that the incident took place in Wisconsin, calls to mind Diamond’s bad behavior in…
Marijuana’s social effects on Colorado have been routinely debated since recreational sales began in 2014, so a group of students at Metropolitan State University of Denver decided to study city crime and homeless numbers after commercial pot’s inaugural year. Presented yesterday in room 420 of MSU’s Student Success Building, the…
In January 2014, we shared a pot entitled “The ABCs of Denver’s Unregistered Sex Offenders,” which offered an overview of the issue in the city. Since there were more than 100 unregistered sex offenders on Denver’s most wanted list, we featured a representative sample: one from each letter of the…
Anthony Martinez looks mighty benign in the Facebook photo above. But investigators with the Colorado Springs Police Department, as well as law enforcers in at least six other states, fear he’s anything but. Martinez, 25, has been arrested on suspicion of what the CSPD describes as “an unlawful, sexual relationship…
Over the past month or so, numerous drivers in northern Colorado have had their windows shattered — and one driver, Cori Romero, was shot in the neck as she motored down Interstate 25 in Larimer County. These incidents remain unsolved — and now, John Jacoby, 48, is dead after having been…
Abigail Cozad had a tough life, owing to a traumatic brain injury suffered as a result of an accident involving a drunk driver when she was just fifteen. Now, Cozad is dead, victim of a homicide. Her body was found in an Adams County motel. Now, the Adams County Sheriff’s…
Have you seen a black 2006 Toyota Tacoma like the one above, sporting Colorado license plate 966-MFH? If so, call the police in Denver or Aurora and get the hell out of its way, because the driver of the vehicle was allegedly at the center of multiple crimes yesterday, including a…
Police responded when Donna Mount died in April. But there were no criminal charges in the immediate aftermath of her death — only tears. More than two months later, however, a most unlikely suspect — Lee Keyser, 67 — has been arrested on suspicion of manslaughter in the case. Why?…
Editor’s note: The memorandum below was found, crumpled into a densely compressed ball, in a men’s-room stall in the Arapahoe County courthouse. We were unable to verify the authenticity of its contents by press time. But in this age of instant communication of unfiltered, user-generated content, what the heck. To:…
Last December, we told you about the arrest of Gregory Kilcollins for shooting up a Wheat Ridge apartment complex and seriously injuring a man in the process. Turns out, though, that the only crime for which Kilcollins was guilty was possessing a weapon as a previous offender. Prosecutors now believe…
The Tinder phone app has helped bring a lot of couples together. But not every right swipe is, well, the right swipe. The arrest affidavit naming Darren Auger — it’s on view below in its entirety — is a case in point. What began as a perfectly pleasant get-together ended…
Jake Lloyd, who starred as the young Darth Vader in 1999’s Star Wars, Episode I: The Phantom Menace, hasn’t acted for years, but he remains one of the most Googled celebrities with Colorado ties. Last December, we featured Lloyd on this subject and noted that most people searching for Lloyd wanted…
Del Dawan Bankett, Jr. is only 24-years-old, but he’s scheduled to spend the rest of his life in prison without the possibility of parole. And the facts of the case against him, as laid out by the 18th Judicial District DA’s Office, could hardly be colder or more brutal. Prosecutors…
To our knowledge, Westword has never before published a post about cannibalistic rats. But that’s appropriate, because we’re guessing the officers who discovered hundreds of rats, both dead and alive, in the garage attached to a marijuana grow house hadn’t seen anything quite like what they discovered Wednesday, either. About 10…
Today, Specialist Jeffrey Page, a soldier based at Fort Carson, is expected to be sentenced for the 2014 slaying of a fellow soldier, nineteen-year-old Specialist Adrian Perkins. Page, who’s originally from Ohio, insisted that the killing of Perkins, who he shot in the head as the latter was bringing him…
The Boulder DA did not file a murder charge against Dynel Lane.
