Colorado Crime

Man Free From Prison After 16 Years For A Crime He Didn't Commit

AP | Posted 05.01.2012

GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. -- Robert Dewey was 33 when he went to prison for the 1994 rape and murder of a Colorado woman. The 51-year-old walked away free...

Man Survives 4th-Floor Leap After Deputies Knock

AP | Posted 04.10.2012

FORT COLLINS, Colo. -- Authorities say a 22-year-old Colorado man survived a leap from a fourth-floor window when sheriff's deputies arrived to arrest...

Father Arrested For Allegedly Abusing 2-Month-Old Son

Posted 03.19.2012

Daniel Kim, a 22-year-old Colorado Springs father, has been arrested for allegedly abusing his two-month-old son. The infant was taken to a local hosp...

Denver Serial Killer Wouldn't Be Let Go Under Current Laws

AP | By P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 05.07.2012

DENVER -- Vincent Groves was released from prison on mandatory parole in 1987, having served five years for strangling a 17-year-old girl. Three years...

Colo. Embalmer Accused Of Stealing Gold Teeth From Corpses

AP | Posted 04.30.2012

By Associated Press LONGMONT, Colo. -- A Colorado embalmer is facing fraud charges for allegedly removing gold crowns and dental fillings from corp...

Colo. Embalmer Accused Of Stealing Gold Teeth From Corpses

Posted 02.29.2012

Adrian Kline, a 43-year-old Brighton, Colo. embalmer is accused of stealing gold teeth from corpses and then pawning them for cash, according to the L...

Gym Teacher Arrested For Relationship With Student

Posted 02.17.2012

A physical education teacher at Basalt High School was booked Thursday on suspicion of having a sexual relationship with a 17-year-old student. Fox...

Fugitive Brothers Enter Pleas In Colorado

AP | P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 04.17.2012

DENVER — Two of three fugitive siblings who were the targets of a nationwide manhunt after shots were fired at a police officer in Florida and a...

Colo. Mother Allegedly Left 2-Year-Old Son To Die In A Field

Posted 01.31.2012

Nyesha Hall-Gonzalez, 28, an El Paso County, Colo. mom, was arrested on Saturday for attempted first degree murder of her own 2-year-old son. Court do...

14 Charged In Child Sex Trafficking And Drug Running Ring

The Huffington Post | Michael McLaughlin | Posted 01.31.2012

A sex trafficking ring that lured underage girls into prostitution and also dealt cocaine and methamphetamine was allegedly broken up in Colorado, acc...

3-Year-Old Found Dead Under Home, Mother Accused Of Murder

Posted 01.24.2012

Juanita Kinzie, a 24-year-old Sterling, Colo. mother, has been charged with first-degree murder of her 3-year-old son Caleb Pacheco, according to The...

Couple's Names Written On Paper Bag With Bomb Inside Of It

AP | Posted 01.11.2012

LAFAYETTE, Colo. -- A bomb that seriously injured a Colorado couple was left beside their car in a paper bag with their names written on it, and the w...

Coma Patient Talks Of Surviving Attack By Killer Who Put Other Woman In Freezer

Posted 01.10.2012

A woman who survived a brutal sexual attack in Colorado has come forward to tell her tale of survival while footage has emerged of the attacker storin...

Cops: 'Call Of Duty' Fan Threatened To Blow Up Best Buy

Posted 01.09.2012

Unable to get his fix of virtual violence, one man had a hard time facing reality. Police in Colorado say an avid gamer threatened to blow up an el...

Alleged Phone Thief Sends Victim Facebook Friend Request

AP | Posted 11.18.2011

By Associated Press GREELEY, Colo. -- A Colorado man is accused of stealing a woman's cell phone and then sending her a friend request on Facebook....

UPDATE: 4 On Trial For Murder In Castle Rock Double-Homicide

Posted 10.24.2011

Josiah Sher, one of three suspects in a murder-for-hire case, that was allegedly hired to kill a Castle Rock man’s wife and her brother-in-law, admi...

Accused Sibling Bandits Due In Court -- Doughertys Could Face Attempted Murder Charge

AP | Posted 10.22.2011

WALSENBURG, Colo. -- Prosecutors in Colorado could be the first to pursue attempted murder and assault charges against three siblings accused in a cro...

UPDATE: Dougherty Gang Charged, HUGE Bond

AP | KRISTEN WYATT and IVAN MORENO | Posted 10.11.2011

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) -- A woman caught with her two brothers after a nationwide manhunt told Colorado authorities she "deserved to get shot," according ...

UPDATE: 'Dougherty Gang' CAUGHT in Colo.

AP/Huffington Post | By THOMAS PEIPERT | Posted 10.10.2011

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) -- Three fugitive siblings wanted in a crime spree in Florida and Georgia were captured Wednesday in Colorado after firing shot...

Boulder Man’s Throat Cut Outside Restaurant

Posted 10.05.2011

Jeffrey Neering, a 27-year-old Boulder man, has been arrested and charged with attempted second-degree murder for allegedly cutting the neck of Jason ...

Man Allegedly Pressured Illegal Immigrants To Perform Sex Acts

Posted 10.04.2011

Nestor Vasquez, a 64-year-old Gypsum, Colo. man, has been arrested on charges that he pressured young women that he believed were illegal citizens to ...

20-Mo.-Old Child Bound With Tape, Put Under Shower

Posted 10.04.2011

Samantha Salaz, 19-year-old mother of a 20-month-old toddler that was found bound with electrical tape and put under a cold shower, has taken a plea d...

John Ramsey, Father Of JonBenet, Remarries

Posted 10.01.2011

John Ramsey, the father of murdered child beauty queen JonBenet Ramsey, remarried on July 21 to Jan Rousseaux, according to The Denver Post. Ramsey is...

2 Suspects In Colo. Springs Shooting Spree That Left Several Dead, Wounded

AP | By STEVEN K. PAULSON | Posted 09.28.2011

DENVER -- Colorado Springs police are hunting two suspects in separate shooting that killed four people and they're warning the public that the men ar...

3 Separate Colo. Springs Shootings Leaves Trail Of Dead, Wounded

Posted 09.27.2011

Three apparently unrelated shootings in Colorado Springs Wednesday night left four dead, two injured, and police scrambling to respond, officers and l...