Crime and Public Safety

A 44-year-old man was shot and killed outside of a house party in the 3600 block of East 91st Avenue in southeast Thornton, police said. 

William “Sonny” Macaluso, 48, drowned in Chatfield Reservoir on Thursday after an inflatable tube carrying him and three children overturned, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office said.

ICE detained two Honduran men who were arrested in June in a Boulder County road rage shooting on U.S. 36.

A person was struck and killed by a truck at a north Denver industrial yard early Thursday morning, police officials said.

Two men were killed while trying to stop people from breaking into their vehicles in separate incidents over the last eight days in Denver, the police department said Thursday.

Gregory Miles, accused of murdering his girlfriend and endangering officers and civilians in a shooting incident in Broomfield in 2024, has again changed his plea in the case.

A man shot overnight in the 4300 block of North Pecos Street in Denver’s Sunnyside neighborhood has died, police announced Wednesday morning. 

A hiker was seriously injured after a man attacked him while he was walking back to his vehicle at a Boulder County trailhead Monday night.

At least two Colorado prison wardens participated in a racist, homophobic group chat on both personal and work cellphones for years, prompting an internal investigation into their conduct that has stretched for 15 months.

The case of Lightning the German shepherd illustrates the stakes of Denver’s dangerous dog prosecutions, an oft-unscrutinized area of law enforcement that sits at the intersection of the city’s animal welfare, public safety and court systems.