A Colorado police officer was shot and killed early Sunday while responding to a large family disturbance in Arvada. Dillon Vakoff, 27, was one of two Arvada Police officers responding to the scene, where they found several people fighting in the street. “The initial two officers tried to separate several belligerent and uncooperative individuals when …
A 14-year-old Colorado boy found dead on Monday was reportedly stabbed, shot, and beaten. Josiaz Aragon’s body was discovered near a baseball diamond at the Southwest Recreation Center in Denver. The Denver Medical Examiner listed his cause of death as “multiple sharp and blunt force injuries with a gunshot wound,” according to The Denver Post. …
A Colorado woman reportedly sought a protective order against her ex-boyfriend on two occasions before he killed her and her 16-year-old daughter last Thursday in a double murder-suicide. KMGH reported that the latest protective order filed by Lindsay Daum, 41, was denied a month before Javier Acevedo, 49, fatally shot her and her daughter, Meadow …
Barry Morphew accepted a plea deal this week that saw him pleading guilty to casting a fraudulent ballot in the 2020 election on behalf of his missing wife. Suzanne Morphew disappeared on Mother’s Day in 2020, reportedly when she headed out for a bike ride. She never returned home and is believed dead, as CrimeOnline …
A former swim coach was arrested in Atlanta last week on charges that he sexually assaulted multiple underage swimmers on his team. Jon Michael Beber faces three counts of sexual assault on a child in Boulder County, Colorado, where he coached Boulder Swimming from 1997 to 2002, the Denver Post said. The Boulder County District …
A Colorado funeral home owner has pleaded guilty to mail fraud for illegally selling body parts and giving clients fake ashes. Megan Hess, 45, and her mother Shirley Koch, were indicted in March 2020 on six counts of mail fraud and three counts of transporting hazardous material, as CrimeOnline previously reported. The remaining charges against …
Update: The CBI reports that Francheska Tafoya and her two children were located and are safe. No word on where they were found or whether there were any arrests. Original story: The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has issued an Amber Alert for two young children and their 24-year-old mother, believed abducted by a 28 year …
A Colorado mother was hospitalized this week after her boyfriend’s ex-lover allegedly stabbed her in the throat multiple times. Police in Center, a small town in the San Luis Valley in southern Colorado, say that Shianne Silva faces a first-degree assault charge in the attack on Alyssa Castanuela, KRDO reported. According to court documents, Silva …
Colorado investigators are looking or a man involved in a deadly shooting during a quinceañera celebration early Sunday morning. The Garfield County Sheriff’s Office said an arrest warrant has been issued for D’Antiago “Dante” Lazaro Dominguez-Lopez, acoording to KMGH. The sheriff’s office said Dominguez-Lopez and the victim were attending the quinceañera — a celebration of …
A Colorado mother charged with selling drugs to minors — including her 16-year-old son, who died of a fentanyl overdose — now faces federal charges with harsher penalties. A district judge in El Paso County dismissed state charges, none of which were connected with her son’s death, against Maria Davis-Conchie on Thursday, KRDO reported. The …
Denver police asked for help this week finding the person responsible for the theft of a box containing human heads. The theft, from a freight company truck parked in Denver’s Central Park neighborhood, took place between 2:30 p.m. Wednesday and 9:30 a.m. Thursday, according to police. The thieves broke into the box truck and made …
Three juveniles were reportedly injured at a Colorado house party on Saturday when the first floor collapsed. According to KMGH, South Metro Fire Rescue responded to an Arapahoe County home after a 911 caller claimed “people were dying” and hung up. Firefighters believe 100-150 juveniles were in attendance when the first floor of the residence …
