Tag: Aurora Crime
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A credibility crisis for Aurora’s public safety chair
Aurora didn’t just elect Rob Andrews to City Council. The new majority elevated him into one of the city’s consequential roles: chair of the Public Safety, Courts and Civil Service Policy Committee. That title is not ceremonial. It signals oversight, judgment, and moral authority in the lane where public confidence either holds — or collapses.…
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Report: Denver, Aurora see sharp decline in crime rates
Violent and property crime rates in Denver and Aurora saw sharp declines over three years, though Colorado’s most populous city led the list in violent crimes, a new report found. Denver’s crime rates declined steadily since 2022, mirroring a statewide trend, according to the report from the Common Sense Institute. Still, Denver topped the list…
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Aurora fatal shooting stemmed from possible domestic violence, police say
Aurora police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 41-year-old man that may have stemmed from a domestic violence incident, according to a department notification Friday afternoon. Police responded to the shooting, in the 10700 block of East Exposition Avenue, in the Expo Park neighborhood just north of Mississippi Avenue, around 9:15 a.m. Friday, according…
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Colorado could save $1.8 billion adopting Aurora’s crime policies, report says
The state of Colorado could have saved $1.8 billion last year if statewide approaches to crime matched those in Aurora, a Common Sense Institute study reported. The report looked at crime data across Aurora and the entire state of Colorado over the past several years, comparing trends specifically in auto theft to determine how much…
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15-year-old Aurora boy dies when shot by teen playing with gun, according to police
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A 15-year-old boy was shot and killed by a teen playing with a gun before it discharged inside a northwest Aurora mobile home Sunday night. At around 7:30 p.m., Aurora Police Department officers responded to a local hospital where two 15-year-old boys had self-transported with gunshot wounds, according to a Monday news release. Investigators learned…
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Aurora police gang unit arrests 2, seizes cocaine, 3D printed gun
Aurora Police Department’s gang unit arrested two fugitives on Dec. 27, seizing drugs, cash and a 3D printed gun, according to a news release on Friday. The arrests were part of a narcotics investigation involving an Aurora man, 28-year-old Abel Gebretsadik, with “known gang ties,” according to the news release. Gebretsadik also had an active felony…
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Aurora gang unit makes 3 arrests on felony warrants
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Aurora Police Department gang unit officers arrested three men with illegal weapons last week, according to a department news release Tuesday. All three of the arrested men — Isaiah Hughes, 22, Raheim Kyser, 23, and Adonai Kalala, 22 —had active felony warrants for their arrest, the release said, and were all taken into custody at the…
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Security guard shoots armed man in front of Aurora 7-Eleven, police say
Just after 9 p.m., police responded to a shooting in front of a 7-Eleven at 12085 East Colfax Ave.
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Man arrested in fatal shooting at Church’s Texas Chicken in Aurora
A suspect was arrested for a fatal shooting that happened last week at a Church’s Texas Chicken, the Aurora Police Department said on Monday.
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Stealing more than $100 worth of goods, or dining-and-dashing, results in Aurora jail time
Aurora adopted harsher penalties for theft in the city, a move that supporters said will help reduce theft and one that opponents said will cost the city more in incarceration costs for a strategy that isn’t effective. Councilmember Danielle Jurinsky brought forward two ordinances at Monday night’s council meeting that add to the original ordinance…