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By Lakewood Edge • September 2nd, 2010

Jeffco Grand Jury indicts Highlands Ranch woman for allegedly accepting charitable donations from friends, neighbors and others while claiming to be under treatment for disease.

Van Thien Pham, who already was on probation for selling liquor to a teen involved in a fatal car accident when he was snared in a police sting at a Lakewood liquor store, faces 42 months behind bars.

Everything from crime prevention to health concerns were addressed at Saturday’s Safety Fair. An expected 1,000 people picked up information on avoiding Internet crime and identity theft, as well as other family issues.

New, more animal- and community-friendly animal shelter celebrates move with a party for its friends, patrons and critters. The shelter doubled its number of intakes in its first weeks at the new site.

Girl’s father faces charges after his loaded, small-caliber handgun was found by a teacher in his daughter’s backpack in a classroom at Mulholm Elementary School Wednesday afternoon.

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Investigators hope tips from the public will help them find a man suspected of molesting a child in the locker room at the Ridge Recreation Center last weekend.
Jeffco Sheriff’s deputies were summoned to the center at 6613 S. Ward St. in Littleton about 5 p.m. Saturday after the victim told his [...]

DENVER- Wal-Mart is pulling 380,000 pounds of Tyson Foods deli meat that may be contaminated with a bacteria that can cause food poisoning, according to the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment.
The meat from Zemco Industries in Buffalo, NY, was included in “Marketside Grab and Go” pre-made sandwiches that were distributed nationwide to Wal-Mart stores, including [...]

Grand opening events celebrate move into more animal- and community-friendly facility, one that promotes the physical and mental well-being of the critters lodged there.

Safety tips and information on all aspects of family safety and security as well as fun for the kids will be served up at the Jeffco Fairgrounds Saturday from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Voters will determine whether Lakewood police should be required to seize vehicles operated by unlicensed drivers. Opponents of the initiative say it will handcuff police and increase the cost of public safety operations.

SUBMITTED BY: Daniel Hayes
Following a year of court challenges and appeals by illegal alien advocates like Common Cause and the ACLU, the car towing and bonding ordinance will come before Lakewood voters this November.
This important issue is about taking unlicensed drivers off Lakewood streets. Suspended drivers and illegal aliens are driving in record numbers and [...]

LAKEWOOD – FasTracks work will close all lanes along a four-block stretch of Sheridan Boulevard for the entire weekend, Regional Transportation District construction officials announced.
And another stretch of the West Corridor light rail line also will handout a few headaches to drivers Monday night into Tuesday morning.
That work will close all lanes of westbound 6th [...]

West Metro’s annual free family event draws thousands to fun, games, give-aways and the public safety messages that could save lives in the event of an emergency.

JEFFERSON COUNTY – An investigation into a woman’s body found in a detention pond near Chatfield Reservoir earlier this week found no indication of foul play, according to the Sheriff’s Office.
“The preliminary investigation of the body recovered from the Jeffco pond at S. Carr St. and Ute Ave. has resulted in no suspicions of foul [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A pair of new identity-theft scams by con artists claiming to represent government offices have surfaced in Jeffco, prompting an alert from the Sheriff’s Office.
In one scam, a caller contacted a local automobile repair business and claimed to be an investigator for the Sheriff’s Office. The man told an employee of the [...]

LAKEWOOD – Regional Transportation District construction officials have canceled a planned Thursday night closure of the West 6th Avenue/Indiana Street area and will reschedule the work, the agency announced Wednesday afternoon.
The announcement gave no reason for the change in plans other than citing “unforeseen circumstances” in the FasTracks West Corridor light rail construction schedule.
“Prior notification [...]

Two salmonella-linked food recalls, one of them “likely linked” to an outbreak of the disease among customers at a popular Jeffco restaurant, were announced by the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment this week.
In a recall that health officials believe is linked to the Fort Restaurant in Morrison, Wright County Egg of Galt, Iowa, [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A Edgewater man was sentenced Thursday to 192 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting a 16-year-old Edgewater girl in June 2009 after his third trial on the charges. One previous trial ended in a mistrial and another ended when the jury could not agree on a verdict.
But a third jury [...]