If a script writer for a network television alphabet show (CSI, NCIS, etc.) isn’t already working on an episode inspired by Aaron and Brian Lucas, you can bet one will get underway shortly. Aaron, a decorated former soldier who’d been stationed at Fort Carson, tried blaming his identical twin, Brian,…
Bob Autobee doesn’t want to see the man who murdered his son Eric twelve years ago put to death for his crime. Eighteenth Judicial District Attorney George Brauchler wants to prevent Autobee from sharing his views on the death penalty and the justice system with the jury that will decide…
Yesterday, we told you about the death of a Jefferson County deputy in a head-on collision with Kenneth Hosch, age 83, who has not yet been charged with a crime in the incident. Another elderly driver, 85-year-old Marshall Smith, isn’t so fortunate. Smith has been arrested in the hit-and-run death…
Like Bronco hype and stories about Bieber Behaving Badly, you can count on a regular supply of reports in the press dealing with how criminals continue to scam the system even while behind bars. The latest installment appeared over the weekend in the Denver Post, a tut-tutter lamenting that inmate…
Today marks the start of closed-door hearings in the Aurora theater shooting case, during which the lawyers are expected to discuss suspect James Holmes’s mental health in detail. Holmes has pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity to killing twelve people and injuring seventy others in July 2012. As part…
Earlier today, we told you about the death of a Jefferson County deputy after his motorcycle was struck by Kenneth Hosch, age 83. And another weekend incident further underscores the vulnerability of two-wheeled vehicles on roadways. On Saturday, cyclist Ernesto Wiedenbrug, 46, was killed in a hit-and-run incident near Windsor,…
The photos of three teenage girls on the Facebook page belonging to Paul Della Rosa, a veteran deputy with the Denver Sheriff’s Department, may be perfectly innocent. They could feature family members (he’s got a young daughter) or friends of friends. Whatever the case, Della Rosa was jailed for allegedly…
When most of us picture drug dealers, we don’t imagine someone like Almeda Sullivan, a former teacher’s aide at a Cherry Creek middle school. But at a preliminary hearing yesterday, she was treated like a serious criminal, and the arrest affidavit on view below explains why. Sullivan is accused of…
Update: Yesterday, we told you about a shooting at the Indian Hills home of Bruce and Maggie Leiman that left two people dead; see previous coverage below. The Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office has now released the names of those who died: Maggie and Bruce’s son Robert Leiman, who’s believed to…
Blas Leroux, the 34-year-old man shot by Denver cops during a hostage standoff at a 7-Eleven last week, has died — and according to his parents, he favored this fate over the alternative. He made one last phone call to them moments before being hit by police gunfire, and during…
Last October, we shared a list of Colorado’s twenty most wanted sex offenders. But Denver has its own roster. It’s more than 150 strong, with all of the men and women on it wanted for failing to register after sex-crime convictions. To give you a feel for those at large,…
Update: Two juveniles were taken into custody following the explosion of what’s been described as a “chemical device” at SkyView Academy charter school. At least five people required treatment at an area hospital; see our previous coverage below. Now, authorities are detailing a possible charge against the pair for possessing…
Richard Dolin insisted that his baby daughter — five-month-old Marlayna, seen here — received many if not most of the injuries that eventually took her life from rolling off a couch onto a concrete floor. But prosecutors didn’t buy this explanation, pointing to shocking injuries completely inconsistent with this explanation…
Update: Last week, we told you about the stabbing death of eighteen-year-old Anthony Benavidez at a Thornton trailer park; see our previous coverage below. Shortly after their arrival at the scene, members of the Thornton Police Department took a seventeen year old into custody on suspicion of committing the crime,…
Update: We now know the identity of the man shot to death at 36th and Lafayette on Sunday: Jose Diaz-Luevano, 67 — the man a child was referring to when he burst from the home shouting, “They shot my Papi!” See our previous coverage below. Clay Baeza-Garcia, 33, has been…
At 8:15 a.m. today, Secundino Martinez, twenty, will make his first Boulder County appearance in relation to a stabbing at a Longmont house party early Sunday morning. And while he was initially busted on suspicion of one count of first-degree murder, that’s now doubled, sadly enough. Two teens have died,…
Even before the passage of Amendment 64, which allows adults age 21 and over to use and possess small amounts of marijuana, law-enforcement agencies have campaigned against driving under the influence of drugs, even though, from a statistical standpoint, alcohol-related DUIs dwarf pot-related ones. This weekend, Arvada’s Keith Kilbey became…
As our Melanie Asmar reported, Aurora suffered two homicides over a three-day period in late December — one outside the Rack ‘Em Billiards and Sports Bar on Christmas Eve, the other near the Aurora Hills Golf Course. Now, there’s been another one, with the victim being found in the parking…
It’s a suitably strange conclusion to a bizarre case. Back in December 2012, we told you about a lawsuit filed by Bryson Dewberry against Chang Ho Yi, a liquor store owner who’d shot him in the face after he’d shoplifted a bottle of Grey Goose vodka. Now, a jury has…
Last April, we told you about the strange story of Stephen Amador, a high-school basketball referee accused of groping four female players while they were on the courts during games — and presumably in full view of their parents and loved ones. The latest? Amador has been found guilty of…
Folks who ride the bus at night in Denver tend to be hyper-vigilant — and the experience of a woman late on Wednesday demonstrates why. According to police, a rider tried to sexually assault her shortly after she disembarked, and only her scrappiness prevented an awful situation from being even…
Earlier this week, we told you about three New Year’s assaults in downtown that bear strong resemblances to the “knockout game” — sucker punches intended to render random strangers unconscious. Now, the Denver Police Department is facing criticism for taking the better part of a week to let the public…
