Police and Courts

By Lakewood Edge • June 9th, 2010

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Clear Creek is off-limits to most users after rapidly rising water from a quickly melting snow pack forced the Sheriff’s Office to limit activities until further notice.
The Sheriff’s Office ban targets all single-chamber inflated devices such as belly boats, inner tubes and inflatable rafts without separate air chambers. Kayaks, white-water canoes and [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A telephone scam that uses fake calls warning victims their ATM card is to be canceled because of fraudulent activity has resurfaced, according to an alert issued by District Attorney Scott Storey.
“This is a scam and its hitting our area hard,” Storey said.
Several potential victims contacted the DA’s ofice in the past [...]

Kalani Opana called police last August and told them he shot his roommate after an argument over music erupted during a lengthy bout of drinking at the Lakewood house they shared with another man.

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Being neighborly proved costly for four senior citizens, including a Lakewood resident, who have
 lost jewelry and cash after allowing a pair of strangers claiming to be neighbors needing help stole cash and jewelry from the victims.
The Jeffco Sheriff’s Office issued an alert Friday, warning area residents about the Hispanic couple that has [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Sheriff’s investigators suspect an Evergreen man killed his 24-year-old sister at their home on Hilltop Drive, but details remained sketchy Saturday.
Deputies booked Zachariah Thomas Santaguida into the Jefferson County Jail early Friday morning after the victim’s sister found her unconscious and called for emergency medical assistance, according to a news release issued [...]

LAKEWOOD – Police arrested two men and are looking for a third suspect in Tuesday’s predawn burglary and vandalism at Stein Elementary School.
Jeffco School District security officers responding to a burglar alarm at Stein about 3 a.m. summoned Lakewood police after they spotted intruders inside the school at 80 S. Teller Street.
Several Lakewood officers and [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A 43 year-old man in state custody is accused in the sexual assault of a Lakewood woman last summer, according to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s Office.
Prosecutors earlier this week announced they have filed a batch of felony charges against 43-year-old Arthur Louis Martinez in connection with the July assault, which occurred [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Two people prosecutors identified as the ringleaders of an infant-formula theft ring await sentencing on racketeering and conspiracy charges after pleading guilty late last week.
Tam Huynh, 46, of Aurora, pled guilty Friday to racketeering, a class-two violation of the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act. Huynh’s wife, Thuy “Tien” Nguyen, 39, entered a [...]

Police Wednesday identified a suspect sought by authorities in 11 jurisdictions in connection with a series of purse thefts as Richard Cress.
Cress, 54, remained at-large late Wednesday afternoon.
Investigators believe Cress it the man caught on camera stealing purses from vehicles while the owner is pumping gas, according to the Wheat Ridge Police Department.
The man is [...]

A Lakewood airline pilot Friday told a British court that he tried to fly a plane load of passengers despite being over the alcohol consumption limit that nation imposes on pilots because of a “miscalculation” moments before a judge handed down a suspended 10-month sentence.
Erwin Washington, 51, was scheduled to fly a Boeing 767 with [...]

LAKEWOOD – A bit of do-it-yourself sleuthing paid off for the family of an elderly woman
in a local assisted living center when the video camera they placed in the woman’s room prompted the arrest of a caregiver at the facility, investigators say.
Police arrested Gabriel Paul Cabral, 41, after the woman’s family gave police a videotape [...]

LAKEWOOD – Six people were jailed six reportedly stolen vehicles seized over the past two days after undercover investigators busted what they believe is an auto theft ring operating in Lakewood, Wheat Ridge, Jefferson County and other metro-area communities.
The arrests came after members of the Metropolitan Auto Theft Task Force and the West Metro Drug [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A man suspected of leaving his baby home alone, then returning home after hours of drinking to find the child dead, apparently has posted bail after his bond was set at $50,000 earlier this week in Jeffco District Court.
Joseph Trujillo, 23, who was arrested Jan. 22 on suspicion of first-degree murder, was [...]

AURORA – A Lakewood man is in the Arapahoe County jail this weekend, accused of breaking into a marijuana dispensary.
Robert Cordova, 50, was nabbed about 2:30 a.m. inside the Herbal Options dispensary in unincorporated Arapahoe County, according to Sheriff Grayson Robinson. Cordova is being held on suspicion of felony burglary and misdemeanor criminal mischief.
According to [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Sheriff’s Office investigators arrested a man early Thursday after he allegedly left his 5-month-old son at home alone while he went to a local bar, and then returned home to find the baby unconscious and unresponsive.
The child later was pronounced dead and an autopsy will determine the cause of the child’s death.
Joseph [...]

LAKEWOOD – One woman is dead and another is in the hospital suspected of driving under the influence after a Tuesday night traffic accident, according to police.
Lakewood police said Amalia P. Santana-Lopez, 45, was pronounced dead at an area hospital shortly after the 9:30 p.m. accident at the intersection of West Bayaud Avenue and South [...]

LAKEWOOD – A house fire that killed an elderly Lakewood woman last weekend was caused by “improperly discarded smoking materials,” investigators from West Metro Fire Rescue District and Lakewood Police Department said Friday.
The woman, who has not been identified, was found in a bedroom of the house at 1310 Pierce Street as firefighters searched the [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Lakewood Police investigators want to talk to a woman who could have information about a suspect charged with 19 counts of sexual assault and released a photo of the sleeping woman late Thursday.
The Lakewood Edge does not plan to publish the photo because of the possibility the woman may be a victim.
Timothy [...]