A fake silver chain stopped a bullet and saved a man’s life last month, police said. The Commerce City, Colorado, Police Department said two men were arguing when one pulled out a gun and fired. “The .22 caliber bullet was fired during an argument and would have ended up in the victim’s neck had it …
The body of a Colorado toddler who wandered away from home early Saturday has been found in an irrigation canal miles from his home. Three-year-old Amari Galan was last seen around 4 a.m. wearing only a diaper, and investigators launched a desperate search in Rocky Ford that enlisted searchers from local and state agencies as …
A massive search is under way in southeastern Colorado for a 3-year-old boy with autism who wandered away from his home in Rocky Ford wearing only a diaper. Amari Galan was last seen at about 4 a.m. Saturday, Rocky Ford Police said. He is described as 3 feet tall and about 30 pounds with black …
One of three high school seniors charged with throwing rocks at cars in Colorado last year — one of the incidents killed a 20-year-old woman — pleaded guilty on Friday to assault and attempt to commit assault. All other charges against 19-year-old Zachary Kwak were dismissed as part of the plea deal, which will see …
The Colorado dentist accused of poisoning his wife’s protein shakes and trying to persuade his daughter to tamper with evidence against him has also been charged with offering to pay a fellow inmate to plant letters he wrote to make it look like his wife committed suicide. James Craig has already pleaded not guilty to …
A former elite swim coach has been convicted of molesting girls on his Colorado swim team between 1997 and 2002. Jon Beber was found guilty of sexually assaulting three swimmers on the Boulder Swimming team during that time, before he quit the team and left Colorado, the 20th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said. After that, …
A Colorado school bus aide was arrested and fired from her job after video showed her repeatedly hitting a nonverbal boy who was strapped into a harness on the bus. Kiarra Jones, who worked for Littleton Public Schools, was arrested on April 4 and has already bonded out of jail, KUSA reported. In the graphic …
Colorado police have arrested a father and his girlfriend in connection with the deaths of two young children who had not been seen in nearly six years. Corena Rose Minjarez was arrested on Thursday and charged with two counts each of first degree murder and abuse of a corpse, according to the Pueblo Police Department. …
A 15-year-old California girl has been missing for nearly two weeks after disappearing on a layover at Denver International Airport. Harper Cadman arrived in Denver aboard a United Airlines flight from Montana at about 8:30 a.m. on January 30, but she never boarded her flight home to California, KDVR reported. The National Center for Missing …
A 26-year-old man and a teen boy were killed and four others wounded early Sunday morning when a confrontation with uninvited guests at a Denver party erupted into violence. The shooting took place just before 1:30 a.m. in Denver’s Green Valley Ranch neighborhood, police said, adding that there was evidence of multiple shots fired from …
The 1975 rape and murder of a 20-year-old Colorado woman has been solved when investigators matched DNA found at the scene with DNA from an ex-convict who committed suicide in 1991. The discovery also solved the 1991 rape and murder of a 30-year-old Las Vegas mother. Teree Becker, originally from Wyoming, had moved to Denver, …
Police in Colorado are seeking help finding two children after finding the body of a child encased in concrete in a Pueblo storage unit. The Pueblo Police Department said it was called to the storage facility on January 20 after a caller found a mysterious metal container filled with hardened concrete. In the course of …
