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According to an announcement by the Denver District Attorney, a man who was detained for driving drunk while working as a contract driver on an RTD bus was sentenced to one year in jail. The man’s sentence was handed down on Jan. 26 at his sentencing hearing. Reportedly, the man was arrested in September...

A 48-year-old Colorado Springs woman who is running for mayor was detained on Jan. 12. The woman, who was previously arrested and charged with pointing a rifle at a man, was taken into custody this time for assault and violating a protection order. According to reports, officers were responding to a domestic disturbance call...

Beginning with the 2015 legislative session, Colorado lawmakers are striving to do something that they were unsuccessful at doing previously: they will reportedly attempt, once again, to make repeat DUI offenses chargeable as felony offenses. Colorado, one of four states that treat all DUIs as misdemeanors, is attempting to do what 46 other states...

Officers with the Loveland Police Department announced that they detained a suspect on Dec. 31 who they believe may be involved in a string of car thefts. Reportedly, the vehicle thefts occurred in Weld, Boulder and Larimer Counties. The man was located and taken into custody after the Colorado Highway Patrol responded to a...

On Dec. 24, a 24-year-old driver for an armored car company was taken into custody in Colorado and charged after he was believed to have involved in a heist. The vehicle involved in the alleged incident was reportedly recovered on Dec. 22, approximately a half-hour after it went missing. After the vehicle was recovered,...

A 33-year-old Colorado man is facing felony charges after police claimed he was making pipe bombs in his apartment on Dec. 17. While the alleged bomb-making materials were being cleared from the Colorado Springs apartment, the accused man’s neighbors had to evacuate for more than six hours. Materials that were inside of two of...

Summit County residents may be interested in the story of two men who have plead guilty to criminal charges. They are currently serving a deferred sentence, and the charges and jail time could be dismissed for good behavior. An Adams County spa owner alleges that the movers she hired to relocate her spa business...

A 57-year-old man was recently indicted by a grand jury in Colorado on nine charges in relation to an alleged DUI accident in Arapahoe County. The 57-year-old man reportedly has 20 previous citations for alcohol-related convictions and has been convicted 16 times. Most of these convictions took place in Colorado. The choice to use...

Colorado residents may have heard about the right to remain silent. In popular parlance, people refer to this as “pleading the Fifth.” This right is stated clearly in the Fifth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which says that a person cannot be compelled to testify against himself or herself when accused of a...

Obtaining a restraining order in Colorado is a straightforward process, but it involves many steps. It begins by filling out form JDF 402, the Complaint/Motion for Civil Protection Order. You must sign the form in the presence of a notary public or before the court clerk. You must also complete JDF 442, the Information...

Many people in Colorado become addicted to their prescription drugs over time. When the addiction becomes overwhelming and people feel the need to take more medication than prescribed by their physician, they often run out of their prescription amounts much earlier than they would have if they had taken them as prescribed. Desperation to...

Police in Colorado took a 22-year-old man into custody on burglary charges on Nov. 7 after connecting recovered property to an earlier residential break in. The burglary took place in northeast Colorado Springs. According to a Colorado Springs police report, officers responded at approximately 2 a.m. to a call regarding a burglary at a...