Tag: Criminal Law
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Denver police find cremains of 30 people, body in a hearse at house of former funeral home owner
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Earlier this month, the Denver Medical Examiner’s Office and the city’s police department received a call about a “suspicious occurrence” at a Denver house. Authorities said the property owner had noticed boxes while cleaning the house after a tenant had been evicted. Inside the boxes were the cremated remains of people. In the backyard, officers…
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Greenwood Village man convicted of robbing 4 banks in 4 months
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save An 18th Judicial District jury convicted a Greenwood Village man of robbing four different banks in the metro Denver area over four months in 2022, leading to nearly $85,000 stolen. Greenwood Village Police officers arrested 30-year-old Jonathan Martin Bell following an armed robbery on Dec.…
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Littleton man charged with 6 sexual assault counts from over a decade ago
63-year-old Christopher Kenny Jackson was arrested in August
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Aurora police searching for one suspect after argument led to shooting
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A woman was shot in the 800 block of south Havana Street after she was involved in an argument with another woman. Police say the argument escalated and both women shot at one another, though only one was hit. She was transported to the hospital…
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Colorado grand jury returns 90-count indictment for auto theft, burglary operation
Colorado’s statewide grand jury has indicted five people on 90 counts in connection with an auto theft and burglary operation in the Denver metro area, Clear Creek and Weld Counties. The ring operated between December 2019 and March 2021, according to a news release from the Attorney General’s office. The five suspects are accused of…
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Aurora police arrest suspect accused of shooting at off-duty officer in road rage incident
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Aurora Police have arrested a suspect on a felony attempted murder charge after he allegedly drove a car chasing an off-duty, uniformed officer as a passenger fired at her in a road rage incident on Thursday. Ja’Quey Talone Wyrick, 26, faces one count of attempted first-degree murder of a peace officer after he and another…
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Bill aims to add the word ‘consent’ to Colorado’s sexual assault law
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Legislators want to add the word “consent” to Colorado’s sexual assault statutes in an attempt to make the law clearer and more concise. Currently, sexual assault is defined as sexual intrusion when “the actor causes…
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Suspected Aurora church shooter identified, arrest warrant issued
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Police obtained an arrest warrant Sunday morning for a man suspected of shooting three people inside a church in Aurora on Friday that left a woman dead. The Aurora Police Department identified the shooter as Jose De Jesus Montoya Villa, 31, who is wanted on suspicion of first-degree murder, according to a news release. Police…
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Homicides in Denver: Nearly half of all recent arrests tied to person under supervision
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save The last words Christopher Rhodes remembers his ex-girlfriend telling him as she gasped her dying breath echo deep in his soul months after her killing. He found Taryn Meyer, the cellphone in her hand, the 911 dispatcher still on the line. Meyer was slouched behind a…
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Warrant issued for man accused of sex crimes against a child after missing court date
The Boulder Police Department is asking for the public’s help to locate a man who missed a court appearance on charges of sexual assault on a child. A warrant was filed against Ian C. Morrison, 36, on Tuesday after failing to appear for a court hearing in Boulder District Court, according to online court records.…