Last year, in a post entitled “Is Colorado Pot So Good It’s Making Mexican Cartels Want to Take Over?,” Tom Gorman, director of the Rocky Mountain High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area (RMHIDTA), shared some worries. “From what we’re hearing, Colorado marijuana is a lot more desirable than the Mexican marijuana,” he…
The U.S. Penitentiary Administrative Maximum outside Florence, Colorado, better known as ADX, has a deserved reputation as the highest-security supermax prison on the planet. It houses some of the most notorious inmates in North America — from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski and shoe bomber Richard Reid to Aryan Brotherhood leader Barry…
Earlier this year, we told you about Uber driver Gerald Montgomery, who was arrested on suspicion of trying to burglarize a client’s home — presumably because he’d taken her to the airport and knew she was headed out of town. Now, according to an arrest affidavit on view below, an…
The senseless massacre in Newtown, Connecticut, which took the lives of twenty children, including Olivia Engel, seen here, plus seven adults, instantly stirs terrible memories of the 1999 attack on Columbine High School. On the tenth anniversary of that tragedy, we assembled a horrific roster of school shootings in the…
We’ve been reporting about the murder of two-year-old Donnie Ro’Mello Romero Jr. at the Lakewood apartment where he lived, allegedly by his cousin, Roman Morales. Donnie was laid to rest this past Friday in a superhero casket that reflected his love of costumed characters. Now, an arrest affidavit has been released…
In recent weeks, we’ve reported about numerous high-profile crimes on the 16th Street Mall. Included among them — a beating by a group of teens, a stabbing and the arrest of Jerry Odell, who allegedly committed four sexual assaults within minutes of each other. Now comes word of another sex assault…
Plenty of disturbing crimes made the headlines in September. Among them: the arrest of Audra Moquist, who’s accused of conspiring with her brother, Jarrod Moquist, to kill her former boyfriend, who’d become the subject of a long and emotionally devastating search. The booking photos of both Moquists are included in…
The bloodshed continues. The warm early fall weather has brought with it a rash of shootings in the metro-Denver area, with a number of them having fatal results. Two more took place early Sunday morning, September 27, in Aurora. The first left a man dead. The second resulted in a serious…
The hour was late, the gunfire was loud, the victim is in critical condition and the crime scenes represent a pair of very public locations. Late last night, a man was found in the King Soopers parking lot near Sheridan and Dartmouth after being shot. Police don’t believe the shooting…
Earlier this week, we updated you about the death of Jayvion Johnson, a 23-month-old who died under allegedly abusive circumstances despite Denver Human Services having been alerted numerous times in the past about potential problems in the home. The story is much the same in the case of Kinyaita Davis. She’s…
Aurora’s Cherica Winston wasn’t arrested for posting the phrase “fuck this dog” on her Facebook page. However, the item led directly to her arrest for animal cruelty. Winston, who was known as “Juju LaRay” on Facebook, appears to have deleted the page in question. But former Facebook friend Travis Smith…
A man’s apparent plan to set a Colorado Springs bank on fire wasn’t exactly brilliant in the first place. And when it went wrong, it went really wrong, as you can see by the crazy video below. On September 8, according to the Colorado Springs Police Department, firefighters from the city…
In the ring, Stepan Zeytunyan was known as “the Punisher.” Now, however, he is apparently trying to escape punishment for sexual assault he allegedly committed in separate incidents against a pair of teenage girls. He reportedly failed to show up for a court hearing yesterday, and at this writing, he’s considered a fugitive…
According to an arrest affidavit on view below, the investigation into a sexual assault claim against Randall “Randy” Hoch started with a single alleged crime. But it soon led to another. The case began this past March. A victim told Denver Police Department investigators that she had gone to Fado’s…
The photos of Jeffrey Falk that have surfaced thus far are so blurry that they can’t help but seem disturbing — particularly in light of the charges against him. Falk, a math teacher who was on the staff at ThunderRidge High School for nineteen years, has been accused of crimes…
The recent rash of metro-area murders and shootings that may be gang-related seem to be blending together of late. That’s how many of them there have been. But the triple shooting at a Cole neighborhood Jenny’s Market yesterday will stand out to many children and parents at Annunciation Catholic School. The gunfire…
In June 2014, we told you about the arrest of Christopher Waide in the disappearance of Pueblo’s Lea Chali Porter, nineteen. Waide was busted on suspicion of sexual assault and murder even though Porter’s body hadn’t been recovered at the time of our post. More than a year later, Porter’s…
Today, September 25, is the National Day of Remembrance for Murder Victims. This somber occasion will be marked at 11 a.m. at the Webb Building Atrium, 201 West Colfax. In addition to scheduled speakers, the family and friends of murder victims will be encouraged to “bring a picture of their…
What started out as a series of 911 calls about a burning car quickly turned into a murder investigation. And now Shawn Geerdes is in custody on suspicion of shooting Jason Dosa to death and then setting the car ablaze, presumably to cover up evidence of the crime. About 11:40…
Last year, as we reported, Jordan “Kootra” Mathewson, founder of a Littleton-based gaming group called The Creatures, was live-streaming Counter-Strike when police burst into the room. “Uh-oh,” Kootra said. “This isn’t good. They’re clearing rooms. I think we’re getting SWATted.” Since then, the phenomenon of SWATting — calling in bogus threats…
Since last year, we’ve been reporting about the murder case against Harold Henthorn, who was accused of killing his wife, Dr. Toni Henthorn, by pushing her off Deer Mountain in Rocky Mountain National Park in 2012. In the months that followed, the Henthorn story became the subject of a Westword feature and numerous…
Less than a month after his trial, Aurora theater shooter James Eagan Holmes has begun serving his sentence of life without parole — plus 3,318 years — in Colorado’s highest-security prison, the Colorado State Penitentiary. The supermax is known for housing some of the system’s most dangerous inmates in isolation;…
