Author: By Julia Cardi The Denver Gazette
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FBI data does not support Polis’ claim that Colorado is in ‘middle of the pack’ on crime
In his State of the State address Tuesday, Gov. Jared Polis claimed that Colorado falls in “the middle of the pack on crime rates.” “Every person deserves a safe home and a safe community, and in three years I want Colorado to be closing in on our goal of becoming one of the top ten…
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DEA’s Rocky Mountain region seized enough fentanyl in 2022 to kill almost every Colorado resident
The Rocky Mountain division of the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration seized more than 5.8 million potentially deadly doses of fentanyl last year in Colorado, Utah, Montana and Wyoming, the agency announced in a news release Monday. That included almost 2 million pills and more than 150 pounds of powder. The most recent U.S. census data…
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The battle for Denver’s Union Station: Co-response teams mix compassion with policing
DENVER • Mental health clinician Lara Cladny stands in Union Station’s downstairs bus terminal, trying to reason with a disheveled, barefoot woman. It’s a midday in early August. The middle-aged woman shouts at Cladny to get out of her face. Several RTD police officers now flank Cladny, as the encounter escalates. But she remains calmly persistent…
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Boulder marks anniversary of deadly King Soopers shooting
BOULDER — A year after a gunman entered Boulder’s south-end King Soopers and killed 10 people, the day has burrowed irreversibly into people’s memories. On Tuesday, the city has declared March 22 a Day of Remembrance and people remembered shopping in the store or where they were when they heard the news. Congress has renamed the…
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Witnesses testify about possible links between 1982 slayings of women outside Breckenridge
Investigators say a pair of orange bootie socks, a glove and a rescue in the middle of a snowstorm on Guanella Pass helped them link Alan Lee Phillips to the slayings of two women outside Breckenridge on a winter night in 1982. Phillips, 70, was arrested in February on suspicion of the killings nearly 40…
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ELECTION 2020 UPDATE | Republican John Kellner takes a 1,400-vote edge in 18th DA race
Shortly after 5 p.m. Thursday, the vote split in the race for district attorney in the 18th Judicial District flipped to favor Republican candidate John Kellner by 50.13% over Democratic candidate Amy Padden’s 49.87%. Padden had led Kellner by a constantly shifting but razor-thin margin since Election Night. The race, which is for the top…
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ELECTION 2020 | Amy Padden leading by 484 votes in DA race in 18th District
The race for district attorney in Colorado’s most populated jurisdiction could be headed for a recount in a few weeks as the margin between the candidates hovered at less than one point Thursday morning. At 8:30 a.m. Thursday, the 18th Judicial District’s vote split favored Democratic candidate Amy Padden by 50.04% over Republican candidate John…
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ELECTION 2020 | DA race in the 18th stays razor-thin among contested races around state
Inching toward 10 p.m. Tuesday night, the margin of Colorado’s most expensive district attorney race hovered at less than one point. After taking an early lead over her opponent, Republican John Kellner in the 18th Judicial District, Democratic candidate Amy Padden’s edge narrowed to barely over 50% compared to Kellner’s 49.81% as of 9:45 p.m.…
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Matthew Dolloff formally charged with second-degree murder
The Denver district attorney formally filed second-degree murder charges Monday morning against Matthew Dolloff, the man accused of shooting a demonstration attendee after opposing protests on Oct. 10 in Civic Center Park. Dolloff had been contracted to provide private security for 9News, a Denver Gazette news partner, but it has since come to light that…
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Colorado ACLU urges continuing money-saving pandemic measures that reduced jail populations by 46%
Colorado’s jail populations have fallen by as much as 46% statewide since March, when the COVID-19 pandemic brought on an urgent need to reduce jail populations to slow the spread of the disease. In a new report, the American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado said it wants measures taken by counties to keep jail numbers…