Crime and Public Safety

Ryder Holliday, 28, was found unresponsive at the U.S. Penitentiary in Florence, a high-security prison, at about 7:10 p.m. Sunday.

The murder trial for Barry Morphew will not begin until 2027, a judge ruled Wednesday, further delaying the court proceedings against the Colorado man accused of killing his wife Suzanne Morphew.

Attorneys who filed a lawsuit in the 2025 fatal shooting a 26-year-old man by a Colorado Springs policeman argue the death is part of pattern of police misconduct by the department.

The Denver Police Department first posted about the shooting at 1:49 a.m. Wednesday in the 15000 block of Olmstead Place in the Montbello neighborhood.

A 36-year-old man was charged this spring with carrying out 75 smash-and-grab burglaries at suburban Denver businesses across 10 months in 2024.

Jared Heath and his husband James Heath defrauded $12 million from Colorado’s Medicaid program by charging the state healthcare program for eyeglasses that did not exist, Colorado Attorney General Phil Weiser alleged in a June indictment.

A woman died and two others were injured in a crash near the 10th Street and 59th Avenue intersection on Monday morning.

Brian Richie was arrested Monday morning after a girl he babysat told Longmont police he took a video of her and touched her inappropriately.

A grand jury has indicted 11 people on 52 counts related to motor vehicle thefts that occurred at airports across the Front Range.