Crime and Public Safety

Denver police are trying to track down a bronze statute that was stolen from the front of Brown International Academy in Denver early Tuesday morning.

Olympus Discotheque, a Denver nightclub that city officials closed down after a security guard was accused of assaulting a customer, will reopen with new safety measures.

Dustin Dwayne Martin, an officer with the Springfield Police Department, was placed on unpaid administrative leave, according to CBI.

Gov. Jared Polis pardoned 29 people convicted of crimes in Colorado for crimes ranging from theft to fraud and drug possession.

Jody Hung, a 13-year-old girl, is missing after she was last seen in north Denver last week, the Colorado Bureau of Investigation said.

Amber Gates, the mother of Charles Gates, killed inside the Bent County Correctional Facility nearly three months ago, brought a wrongful death lawsuit Tuesday against CoreCivic alleging that her son’s homicide was the result of a “profound failure” by the private prison company.

Denver leaders hope to improve the city’s response to domestic violence victims through new, unified approach to strangulation cases.

Two teenagers, including 18-year-old Yorbelis Del Valle Gutierrez-Arenas, were killed in a suspected murder-suicide at a Lakewood home on Monday morning, police officials said.

George Hall died while serving a 10-year sentence for assaulting another inmate with a dangerous weapon, according to the Federal Bureau of Prisons

A man was arrested Tuesday morning on suspicion of shooting two Colorado State Patrol troopers during an attempted traffic stop in the mountains west of Woodland Park, according to the agency.