Tag: Lakewood Police
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Headshop in Lakewood scene of nearly six-hour police standoff Saturday
Lakewood Police and West Metro SWAT arrested a woman, Oleksandra Sayre, 34, on Saturday afternoon after a nearly six-hour-long standoff. The woman refused to leave the DaBong Headshop, located at the intersection of West Alameda Avenue and South Kipling Street. Lakewood Police tweeted at 1:07 p.m. that officers were sent to arrest a “suspect involved in…
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Cyclist killed in Lakewood after hit and run; driver arrested
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Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A man was killed in a Saturday night hit-and-run in Lakewood. The crash prompted a Medina alert, which was cancelled after the vehicle involved was located and the driver arrested. Lakewood Police responded to the 600 block of Wadsworth Boulevard around 9 p.m., and found…
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New Lakewood police chief hired from New Mexico
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save Lakewood named Philip Smith as the city’s new police chief, effective Monday. He has served as the chief of police in Roswell, New Mexico, for the past nine years. Former chief Daniel McCasky retired in…
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Lakewood mail carrier back to work after being robbed, shot at
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Snow, rain, heat and gloom of night was just a warm up. Not even bullets could keep a Lakewood mail carrier from making his rounds just two days after he was robbed at gunpoint by a couple of teenaged suspects looking to cash in on people’s mail and packages. “I was putting my son to…
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Lakewood agent injured, female assailant dead after gunfire at Grease Monkey
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Update: One female suspect is dead, shot by a Lakewood agent, and another was apprehended last night after an afternoon shoot-out at a Grease Monkey. The two girls, who are not being identified because of their ages, were caught robbing a postal worker at gunpoint in the 400 block of South Oak. The mail carrier…
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Trial of 12-year-old accused in fatal Lakewood apartment fire vacated; competency questioned
The murder trial of a 12-year-old boy accused of setting last Halloween’s deadly Lakewood apartment fire was vacated Tuesday as his attorneys wait for a doctor to complete a competency evaluation. The trial for the defendant had been set for early May and no date for a new trial was offered as attorneys gear up…
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Lakewood Police issue apology after erroneous warning message
Residents who receive alerts from Jefferson County’s emergency alert system, LookOutAlert, received a rude awakening Sunday morning: A lockout alert only meant for a small number of people in the Lakewood area. The alert was originally intended for those living near where Lakewood Police were arresting a suspect. Instead, it went far and wide. Lakewood…
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Police identify suspect in fatal Lakewood shooting
Lakewood police identified a suspect in a shooting that left one dead on Dec. 6, according to a news release. Lakewood Police responded to a shooting near the area of Pierce Street and West 13th Avenue at 1 a.m. on Dec. 6 when a 911 caller reported seeing an unconscious man on the sidewalk. Police…
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Stolen jeep collides with ambulance in Lakewood, injuring two firefighters
Lakewood Police Department officers arrested three people after a stolen jeep collided with an ambulance Sunday night, toppling it. The crash occurred near west 14th Avenue and Reed Street, according to a LPD Tweet. Two firefighters of the West Metro Fire Protection District were taken to the hospital and are expected to be okay, according…
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Some parents angry over decision to eliminate Jefferson County neighborhood schools
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No amount of planning could have prepared Zak Merten for the hall of mirrors which has become his son Everett’s kindergarten year. Eight years ago, Merten and his wife, Millie, bought a home with a forethought for family. It is just a couple of block walk from Lakewood’s Molholm Elementary. Perfect? Not quite. Once the…