Shannon Johnson, 34, is due in court this morning in a case that’s both incredibly tragic and a sign of the times. In an arrest affidavit on view below in its entirety, Johnson tells police that she was fooling around on Facebook while her one-year-old child was drowning in a…
Update: Given the information contained in the arrest affidavit for Theodore Madrid, it’s no surprise that he’s now been charged with first-degree murder in the death of two-year-old Caden Rodgers. According to the document, Madrid was well over the legal limit for drunkenness behind the wheel — .177 blood alcohol…
Gruesome video footage taken at a Colorado federal penitentiary of two inmates taunting guards and mutilating the corpse of their cellmate won’t be released to the news media any time soon — even though the videos were shown in open court to two juries in a failed effort to obtain…
Meth makes people do some desperate things — like, according to a grand jury indictment aimed at Tiffany Nicole Weaver and seven others, steal vehicles from seventy different victims. Of the 103 counts, Weaver is named in 83 of them. Page down below to see mug shots of the suspects…
Yes, Oxycontin is expensive, and getting a prescription for it isn’t easy — but that doesn’t mean it’s okay to tell a pharmacist you’ve got a weapon and swipe as much of it as possible. According to the Colorado Springs Police Department, a thief recently did just that. Look below…
The Lakewood Police Department has issued the booking photo of David Thomas Orton, who is accused of precipitating a SWAT team standoff that stretched from Friday night into Saturday morning. The charges against him include attempted murder. Below, get details from an LPD release, and see a larger version of…
Only days after I posted a few remarks about Bill Ritter’s play-it-safe approach to pardons and his reluctance to commute excessive sentences, the departing governor delivered a slew of bolder pardons and even a few commutations, stunning some grateful convicts and raising hackles elsewhere. Ritter won’t have to worry about…
Update below: On Friday, we told you about multiple arrests in an alleged drug ring in which participants are accused of using medical marijuana documents as cover. Among those busted was Laura Vanwormer, co-owner of Colorado CHRONIX, a meet-up group based in Fort Collins…
Update: Lakewood Police have belatedly released a mug shot of Eric Montiel, the chief suspect in the January 4 slaying of El Torito bartender Jose Beltran-Galindo. In addition, the LPD has tweaked the license plate number of Montiel’s reported vehicle. Look below to see that release, a larger photo of…
North Metro Drug Task Force Commander Jerry Peters has long argued that criminals are abusing Colorado’s medical marijuana system — and now he’s got more evidence go back up his contention. The Colorado Attorney General’s Office, working with the NMDTF, has just announced a major bust featuring multiple arrests and…
The arrest of Richard Troupe, 52, for shedding his pants and asking a worker at a Burger King if she’d like to hold his Whopper strikes plenty of people as hilarious, for obvious reasons. But Longmont Police spokesman Jeff Satur isn’t laughing, and neither is the young woman who turned…
This past June, Christian Hanson was accused in a murder-for-hire plot involving fellow Greeley-area gang member Jesse Rodriguez. Hanson was convicted of this charge and others in November, and today he was sentenced to 176 years to life two days after another alleged cohort, Jesse Arispe, was indicted by a…
The Denver coroner’s office has released its list of Denver homicides in 2010. The roster of 39 is actually down by six from 2009’s 45 homicides, but it remains a grisly toll. Look below to see graphics from near the sites (if you have problems seeing the images, click “View…
Seventh Judicial District DA Myrl Serra was busted in September on charges of indecent exposure and unlawful sexual conduct detailed in an affidavit that told tales of penis exposure and in-office masturbation. So news that Serra formally resigned his post in a letter on view below is less surprising than…
Matthew Richard Anderson’s suicide is reverberating two days later, and not just because Northglenn Police officer Dennis Alps is still recovering from a wound sustained during the standoff that preceded the sex offender’s final act. Parents are aghast at learning that Anderson was living legally near Northglenn Middle School, despite…
Last year at this time, Domino’s launched a risky ad campaign, in which the company admitted that (shocking surprise) its food was mediocre — but it vowed to improve! Now it’s time for a followup, and we’ve got a suggestion for a new spokesman: Isaiah Pickens, who apparently loves Domino’s…
Andrew Terry’s a frontrunner to appear in our next roundup of memorable mug shots. He’s been formally charged with attempted first-degree murder and more for a December 28 rampage in which he allegedly ran over an officer’s foot before attempting to commit vehicular homicide. Look below for more information and…
The Adams County Sheriff’s Office is searching for three men who were seen leaving an apartment where a murder occurred on Monday. The trio of men were all wearing masks, so no additional details are available. They were seen running from the apartment, which is at 7530 Broadway in unincorporated…
Most people start the New Year off by making resolutions. Some people vow to exercise more or smoke less. Others opt to look for news jobs, new loves or even new clothes. The two men pictured below, however, had something else in mind. They chose to shoplift more. And they…
Update: Police arrested their suspect, Michael Anthony Renner, this afternoon at a storage locker. Englewood police conducting a welfare check on a 49-year-old man found his dead body in the 3400 block of South Lincoln Street on Wednesday. They believe the man, whose name hasn’t been released, was the victim…
A 47-year-old man shot his wife during an argument in Aurora on Monday. He turned himself into police and is now in custody. The couple had no relatives in the area, and the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s office is working with out-of-state police to locate next of kin. Until they do,…
Two days before Christmas, Christopher Blackstone of Colorado Springs got into an argument with his girlfriend, Talitha Peterson-Hooks. She ignored his subsequent calls and texts, and, according to the police report, that’s when Blackstone turned to Peterson-Hooks’s three-to-five-month-old puppy and stomped on its head repeatedly…
