This sordid story is brought to you by the letter “S.” Today, the Denver District Attorney’s office charged Ernie Lee Calbert with nine counts of aggravated robbery and one count of second-degree kidnapping. Authorities believe Calbert to be the so-called “‘S’ Bandit,” so named because most of the seven Denver-area…
In this week’s Westword, reporter Alan Prendergast investigates the gnarly addiction and spotty oversight that led to dozens of patients at Rose Medical Center being infected with hepatitis C. The offending junkie, Kristen Parker (right), has earned the contempt of all of Denver. But she’s not alone. Here, the five…
View Larger Map Let’s hope murder-suicides don’t come in threes. Just yesterday, we told you about a likely murder-suicide in Broomfield involving Darryl Stricklin, 45, and Jodi Samuels, 36. Shortly thereafter, the Denver Coroner’s Office identified Filadelfo Mazariego and Alba Rodriguez-Ruiz as a couple found dead on the 4700 block…
View Larger Map In recent days, we’ve learned plenty about the investigation into a slaying last week at a motel on the 9200 block of East Colfax, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). At first, Aurora Police Department…
The Broomfield Police Department has named a couple found dead at 2791 Calkins Place over the weekend in what looks like an all-too-typical murder suicide. He’s Darryl Stricklin, 45, of Larkspur; she’s Jodi Samuels, 36, of Broomfield. They were married. Not many details released yet, but in cases like this…
More bloodshed, more death. What a way to start the week. On Friday, a man now identified as Christopher Camack was found shot on the front lawn of a home on the 3200 block of Albion Street, an area captured in a graphic below (if you have problems seeing the…
A major bite has been taken from the list of the fifty most wanted suspects in and around Denver that the Denver Police Department and other nearby agencies put together in March. In the succeeding six months, 31 have been taken into custody. To see the nineteen who’ve thus far…
The number of at-large suspects on a list of the fifty most wanted, assembled by the Denver Police Department and other metro-area law-enforcement agencies, is getting smaller. In the six months since the original roster was circulated, 31 have been brought in from the cold, or the hot, or the…
Back in March, the Denver Police Department and assorted other law enforcement agencies in the metro area came up with a list of their fifty most-wanted suspects. In just over six months since then, 31 of the men and women on this roster have been taken into custody; click here…
Things can change mighty quickly in a homicide investigation. On Friday, representatives of the Aurora Police Department announced they were seeking Shayne Miller, 35, in connection with a homicide that took place in a motel on the 9200 block of East Colfax the previous day. But the APD didn’t initially…
As smoke continues to gather over medical-marijuana operations in Colorado, local law-enforcement agencies continue to find weed-growing operations in remote locations — and Pike National Forest appears to be a favorite. Pot worth an estimated $2.5 million was seized during a Sugarloaf Mountain raid in July; click here to view…
Yesterday, representatives from the Aurora Police Department found a still unidentified dead man in a motel on the 9200 block of East Colfax whose upper body showed such signs of trauma that they immediately began investigating the case as a homicide. Now, the APD is looking for Shayne Miller, 35,…
In recent days, metro salons have been under assault, and not just from people upset that that the Chinese symbol they paid to have drawn on their nails looks like unidentifiable smegma. First, the Aurora Police Department reported nine break-ins, mostly at salons, over a seven-hour period. Then the Arapahoe…
View Larger Map A grisly find this morning at a motel on the 9200 block of East Colfax, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Aurora Police Department reps found a dead man whose upper body showed such clear…
It sounds like a tidy piece of inspirational fiction: A coke-snorting, booze-guzzling dropout squanders every opportunity in life, turns to armed robbery, burglary and sleazy telemarketing scams, spends much of his adult life behind bars as a self-proclaimed “worthless piece of shit” — then discovers the secrets of better living…
Earlier today, we told you about burglars wanted for nine attempted or actual robberies committed in Aurora over a seven-hour period between Sunday night and Monday morning, most of them targeting nail and hair salons. Now, the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office reveals that another gaggle of businesses was hit around…
You’ve got to respect anyone who uses his time wisely — unless he’s robbing your store. The Aurora Police Department is on the lookout for a thief or thieves who tried and sometimes succeeded at breaking into nine businesses over a seven-hour stretch, from 9 p.m. Sunday, September 6, to…
Broncos receiver Brandon Marshall, a multiple Shmuck of the Week champ, acts as if no one knows the trouble he’s seen (or stirred). Now, however, the team has a pass-catcher with whom Marshall can definitely relate: tight end Richard Quinn, a second-round draft pick from North Carolina, who was busted…
Our Friday blog “Tasers: They’re Not Just for Summer Comedies Anymore” shared a carefully written release from the Aurora Police Department concerning the tasing of a man who’d led cops on a foot chase after they’d visited an apartment in search of Markus Alec Gabel, the subject of a felony…
View Larger Map Yesterday, we told you about what the Denver Police Department understated as a “suspicious death” near the intersection of 8th Avenue and Navajo Street, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Specifically, a woman’s body was…
One of the big-laugh-getting scenes in The Hangover, a movie that’s raked in more than $270 million thus far, features a kid using a taser to shoot Zach Galifianakis in the face — or, as Rob Riggle, playing a cop, puts it, “IN THE FACE!” But if the folks at…
Boulder isn’t free of serious law-breaking: As evidence, we submit the repulsive case of David McCoy, an amateur doctor and psychologist whose “trust-building exercises” allegedly involve medical examinations of certain areas generally kept private. But it’s reassuring that the Boulder Police Department is able to devote so much manpower to…
