Police and Courts

By Charley Able • December 1st, 2009

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 [...]

LAKEWOOD – Police are looking for a man who sexually assaulted a woman after grabbing her from a city street and forcing her into some nearby bushes before escaping on foot, police said Tuesday.
The Friday assault occurred about 9:30 p.m. in the area of Green Mountain Drive and S. Valentine Way.
The suspect is described as [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Members of the West Metro Drug Task Force dismantled a marijuana farming operation, carrying away nearly a ton of pot after a rancher looking for stray cattle found the marijuana growing on Sugarloaf Mountain in the Pike National Forest.
The Task Force estimated the street value of the marijuana at $2.5 million.
It took [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – Sheriff’s investigators are seeking a suspect in the brutal sexual assault of a South Jeffco woman who was attacked after she went outside to her patio in the 7400 block of South Quail Street.
The victim, a woman in her 40s, told deputies she was unable to fall asleep and went outside to [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A 22-year-old man remains in Jefferson County jail Sunday after he was arrested in connection with the June 26 sexual assault of a South Jeffco woman in her home.
Deputies arrested Ryan R. Iliff without incident Friday after investigators linked him to the crime through evidence gathered at the scene of the attack [...]

LAKEWOOD: Police are seeking two women in suspected of breaking into several vehicles to steal credit cards, which they then try to use.
In one of the most recent incidents credit cards were taken from a vehicle at Hayden Green Mountain Park trailhead near West Alameda Parkway and S. Utah Drive the evening of July 9, [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A woman who tried to rob a south Lakewood bank in January was sentenced to two years probation and 80 hours of community service by Jefferson County District Court Judge Jane Tidball Monday.
Danette Hubbard, 46, of Castle Rock pleaded guilty to a class 5 felony charge of attempted robbery in connection with [...]

JEFFERSON COUNTY – A man accused in a statewide crime spree before he was nabbed by Lakewood Police was sentenced to 25 years in prison Monday.
Michael Robert Chard, 31, was sentenced on seven felony counts of aggravated motor vehicle theft, one count of aggravated robbery and one count of felony menacing.
Chard, a Centennial resident, and Brandy [...]