Crime and Public Safety

Philix Baca and Anthony Allen were each sentenced to 25 years in prison in the fatal shooting of Francisco “Cisco” Laqui in Lakewood.

Robert, a 16-year-old boy described by the Aurora Police Department as “at-risk,” was reported missing Monday. 

Shots fired near the Colorado-Wyoming border Monday triggered a massive response from law enforcement after a Wyoming deputy was injured. A Carbon County sheriff’s deputy first responded to reports of a man with a gun in Baggs, Wyoming.

The City of Loveland has agreed to pay $675,000 to the owners of a 14-month-old dog fatally shot by a Loveland police officer in 2019.

There is no sign that the 18-year-old man accused of vehicular homicide in a drunken Northglenn crash tried to brake before hitting the house.

The Bent County coroner identified the two prisoners who died inside the Bent County Correctional Facility as 27-year-old Charles Gates and 59-year-old Michael Fisher.

Larimer County, Colorado, sheriff’s deputies stopped a modified car that was going 130 mph and was outfitted with equipment commonly used in the cross-country “cannonball run.”

Denver Broncos’ Jonathon Cooper and his girlfriend were arrested last Thursday and charged with criminal mischief as a crime of domestic violence in Douglas County.

A 25-year-old man was fatally shot in a northwest Aurora alley early Sunday morning, according to the police department.