We’re about to start your day on a disturbing note. Apologies in advance. This is the way the Boulder Police Department tells the story: So… there’s this guy, David McCoy, who says he operates a media business called (ahem) Zeus Pegasus International, and he needs somebody to run camera for…
Editor’s note: A few comments have been removed from this thread, in accordance with Westword’s policy against identifying the victims or alleged victims of sexual crimes. Denver hair stylist Ty Tomlinson, owner of Blanc salon in the Golden Triangle, was arrested Monday on charges of sexual assault and domestic violence…
View Larger Map Deaths identified as suspicious by law-enforcement officials don’t always prove to be so after further investigation. But I’m going to edge out onto a limb and say this description will prove to be accurate as applied to an investigation centered on the intersection of 8th Avenue and…
View Larger MapOn Sunday night, Rick Bobian, 37, was shot dead near the intersection of 66th Avenue and Julian Street in Adams County, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Local authorities are currently looking for Levelle Patricia Valdez,…
Michael A. Kincade, dubbed the Shaggy Bandit, must not take that whole you-have-the-right-to-remain-silent thing very seriously. Shortly after he and an accomplice, the nickname-challenged Christopher Lee Richardson, were captured last week, Kincade gave a jailhouse interview to 9News. And the criminal complaint written out against him by the U.S. Attorney’s…
The strange case of Maurice Schwenkler has entered a new phase now that the Denver District Attorney’s Office has formally charged the far-left trangender activist also known as Ariel Attack with criminal mischief in the smashing of eleven windows at Colorado’s Democratic Party Headquarters. But the political fallout continues, with…
The saga of Ferris the stolen dachshund has a happy ending — for everyone except the trio who swiped him. Thanks to the Boulder Police Department’s energetic efforts to locate the parties who spirited the pooch away from the Humane Society of Boulder Valley, a good Samaritan who’d been asked…
Last week, we passed along the Aurora Police Department’s invitation to roll over on Daniel Evaristo-Hernandez-Ramos, an accused child molester. No luck finding the suspect thus far, but the APD has located a much better photo, seen here. As for the reasons why you may want to consider dropping a…
In an August 20 blog, our own Joel Warner told us about the Shaggy Bandit, a scofflaw wanted for numerous bank heists. Shaggy’s memorable name came courtesy of the FBI’s Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, whose members understand that reporters tends to pay more attention to thieves with catchy…
Yesterday, we told you about the Boulder Police Department’s valiant efforts to find a dachshund puppy named Ferris, who was allegedly snatched from the Humane Society of Boulder Valley earlier this month. Mere hours after that post, according to a BPD release on view below, a woman identified by the…
Author Dominick Dunne, who died yesterday at 83, is best known for covering the nation’s most sensational crimes and trials. But he never showed much interest in the murder of JonBenét Ramsey, to the frustration of some folks obsessed with the mystery over the Boulder girl’s 1996 death. However, he…
Ferris is a dachshund. A cute dachshund, no doubt, not only because dachshunds are, by their nature, cute, but because the thought of a dachshund named Ferris is even cuter. And some people stole him. Bad people who folks at the Boulder Police Department want to catch and then punish…
A fire in Pike National Forest would bake the entire region. Fed and local law enforcement types located more than 14,000 marijuana plants in Pike National Forest near Deckers last week, and it’s hardly the first time such a discovery has been made in that area. In July, the West…
Zoning disputes: Not an inherently fascinating subject for folks not involved with them — and often not even then. But the interest level perks up when wholesale horse assassination is thrown into the mix. According to the Weld County Sheriff’s Office, Trenton Parker recently received a ninety-day sentence for contempt…
When news first broke yesterday that eleven windows had been smashed at Colorado Democratic Party headquarters in Denver, initial speculation pinned the blame on conservative anger over Democratic heathcare reform efforts. When it emerged that one of the two suspects arrested in connection with that crime, 24-year-old Maurice Schwenkler, had…
At his latest healthcare town hall this past weekend, Congressman Jared Polis said attendees were patriotic because they were expressing their opinions, whatever they might be. But he probably would have changed his tune had they been wielding implements of destruction — or, in this case, construction. According to the…
One of the more unusual aspects of the enormous meth ring authorities announced they busted yesterday was the alleged conspirators’ chosen instrument for cleaning their dirty money: classic comic books. Investigators seized approximately 100 boxes of comics, including first-edition Batmans and Supermans in plastic sheaths to protect their value. As…
Take a look at Aaron and Alfonzo Castro and then guess their profession. Kindergarten teachers? Florists? Hallmark Card authors? Not according to Colorado Attorney General John Suthers, the North Metro Task Force and other law-enforcement types. No, they say the Castros, and 39 others, were part of a meth ring…
View Larger Map According to Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office PIO Jacki Kelly, a likely murder-suicide was discovered yesterday on the 23000 block of Kiowa Road in Indian Hills, near the area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”). Kelly says a…
View Larger Map The crash that took place during the wee hours of August 15 on Titan Road near Rampart Range Road, an area captured in the graphic above (if you have problems seeing the image, click “View Larger Map”), certainly qualifies as a tragic accident. But according to the…
An early front-runner for Shmuck of the Year, Shawn Merriman this week was officially charged for his orchestration of a massive Ponzi scheme that made him rich, left friends and investors broke, and had Bernie Madoff saying to his prison boyfriend, “Hey, this guy stole my moves!”…
With students returning to the University of Colorado at Boulder campus for the fall semester, the Boulder Police Department is stepping up DUI patrols — and the CU cops will be out in greater force, too. The university department has added six more officers as part of an overall plan…
