A district judge has ruled that the details of a previous arrest will not be allowed in the murder trial of Michael Clark, according to the Boulder Daily Camera. Prosecutors wish to use Clark's guilty plea in a case involving motorcycle theft as character evidence, but the judge has determined that the details of the […]
A man charged with robbing a local bank was denied in an attempt to have his bail lowered, according to the Boulder Daily Camera. The man had been charged with robbing First National Bank on Iris Ave. in Boulder, and is being held on $100,000 bond. At his first court appearance, his attorney, a public […]
Two juveniles have been arrested in connection with string of burglaries and vandalism, according to the Boulder Daily Camera. Two medical marijuana dispensaries and two gift shops have been robbed, and the young men who have been arrested on suspicion of the crimes are underage. Of course, juveniles' names are not reported. Police are still […]
According to the Boulder Daily Camera, a man who has been accused of DUI in a crash that resulted in a pregnant woman losing her baby has been charged with multiple DUI offenses in the past. People familiar with the case have used it to call into question the way that DUI is enforced, and […]
Due to the Flagstaff fire near Boulder, and the generally high fire danger, The Boulder Daily Camera reports, Ralphie's Independence Day Blast fireworks show at Folsom Field has been canceled this year. City officials decided that the risk to public safety is simply too great this year, and that it would be irresponsible to put […]
A former Boulder resident was sentenced to almost six years in federal prison for wire fraud, ccording to the Boulder Daily Camera. David Helm Taylor was accused of using wire fraud in a ponzi scheme to scam people out of over $2 million. He lived in Boulder for much of the time that the scam […]
The Denver Post reports that based on a study by the Violence Policy Center in Washington DC, Colorado is one of only ten states where more people are killed by guns than in car crashes. The study shows that in 2009, the most recent year for which data is available, nationwide there were slightly more […]
Boulder's downtown Post Office has announced that they will scale back lobby hours in order to prevent further instances in a rash of mail box break-ins that has been going on, according to the Boulder Daily Camera. The lobby had been open 24 hours, as is the case with many post offices, so that post […]
The Denver Post reports that a man convicted and sentenced to life in prison for raping and murdering a young woman nearly twenty years ago has been cleared of that crime based on DNA evidence. While the DNA evidence was available at the original trial for the 1989 crime, advances in the ability to analyze […]
CBS Denver is reporting that approximately 1700 blood alcohol samples from drunk-driving tests need to be retested, because errors were found in some of them. One particular employee of the Colorado Department of Health apparently misreported the alcohol content of several samples; the employee has been fired and many of the samples that he tested […]
