Police and Courts

By Lakewood Edge • January 29th, 2010

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 [...]

LAKEWOOD – A least one of four young car-theft suspected busted over the Thanksgiving weekend apparently is more interested in setting a record than the possible punishment he faces.
A resident of the 9300 block of West Iowa Place called police about 4 a.m. Sunday to report someone was trying to steal their Dodge in the [...]

LAKEWOOD – A robbery suspect was arrested Tuesday as he pedaled a bicycle away from the scene of a bank heist Tuesday morning, police said.
Police received a call about a bank robbery at the Liberty Savings Bank, 7575 W. Jewell Ave., at 9:44 a.m. and were on the scene within a minute. Witnesses told officers [...]

 
JEFFERSON COUNTY – Sheriff’s Office investigators checking out multiple allegations of sexual assault on children involving James C. Bird fear the suspect may have assaulted other youngsters, as well.
Bird, meanwhile, is believed to have left the United States and dectives have not been able to contact him, said Jackie Kelley, Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman.
Deputies have an [...]

LAKEWOOD – A pedestrian was killed by a hit-and-run driver Monday evening and a 48-year-old suspect faces multiple charges including vehicular homicide after he was caught by while fleeing the scene of the accident, Lakewood police said Tuesday.
Lakewood Police Department spokesman Steve Davis identified the victim as Raymond Rivera, 48, of Denver.
Rivera was crossing Harlan [...]

LAKEWOOD – A key you might not even know about could be a boon to car thieves and the newly formed Jefferson County Regional Auto Theft Task Force (JRATT) have issued a warning that an increasing number of vehicles are being stolen by thieves using it.
Lakewood Police Sgt. Dave Hoover, a member of the task [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Two men face felony charges in Jefferson County District Court after they were arrested in connection with a marijuana farm found in the Gun Barrel Creek area of the Pike National Forest, the District Attorney’s Office announced Monday.
Davis Padilla Martinez, 40, and Rene Galan Hernandez, 27, remain in the County jail.
The two [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office investigator seriously injured in a vehicular assault was identified Thursday as veteran deputy Art Peterson, 52.
Peterson was injured Wednesday while trying to apprehend two suspects in a pickup truck that had been reported stolen earlier in the day. He was in serious condition at Swedish Hospital, a [...]

 
LAKEWOOD – Police have their picture, now the cops need their names.
Three of four suspects in a vehicle reported stolen from the 3200 block of S. Hoyt Street in Lakewood in June unknowingly posed as they passed through the intersection of Quebec Street and East 36th Avenue in Denver two days later.
But they ran a [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A grand jury handed down racketeering indictments against nine people who allegedly operated an infant-formula theft ring, the District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.
The five men and four women named in the 78-count indictments are accused of stealing more than $20,000 worth of baby formula from retailers in the metro area and Colorado [...]

 JEFFERSON COUNTY – A man who admitted his role in the February shooting death of a man after a confrontation at a Lakewood apartment faces 24 years in prison.
Phillip F. Montano, 21, was sentenced Tuesday to two 12-year terms to be served consecutively on charges of manslaughter and being an accessory to a crime. The [...]

 
A hiker from Lakewood was recovering at St. Anthony Central Hospital Monday, a day after he was air-lifted from a mountain peak at Rocky Mountain National Park. 
The man, Ranganathan Chitoor Parameswaran, spent Saturday night about 200 feet below the summit of Mount Ida under the care of rescue teams who reached him too late to [...]