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DUI crackdown yields surprise for Lakewood cops

DUI crackdown yields surprise for Lakewood cops

Summer-long crackdown nets fewer than expected DUI suspects at sobriety checkpoints manned by Lakewood officers. The low numbers seem to be an indicator of success, LPD spokesman says.

Investigation of deaths discovered after fire focuses on homicide

Investigation of deaths discovered after fire focuses on homicide

Police identify one victim as Janine Cuellar, 49, who lived at 6770 W. 14th Ave., where a fire erupted after a neighborhood-rattling argument.

Police investigate death in house fire as homicide

Police investigate death in house fire as homicide

Victim of Tuesday night fire is identified as Bonnie Gilbert Bergin, 49. Police say they believe ’suspicious circumstances’ were involved in the death and fire at the home at 11906 W. 20th Ave.

Police seek two women in credit card thefts

Police seek two women in credit card thefts

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, [...]

Autopsy finds drugs in suspect shot by police

Medical examiner’s report indicates presence of three illegal substances in the bloodstream of the 25-year-old suspect who died at Sloan’s Lake Park in June as he ran from a Lakewood Police officer.

Driver dies after pickups collide on Kipling

Driver dies after pickups collide on Kipling

 
LAKEWOOD – A man died and another was injured in a two-vehicle collision at the intersection of S. Kipling Parkway and West Kentucky Avenue Monday morning, police said.
A traffic signal pole was knocked down in the 8:30 a.m. accident and southbound traffic on Kipling still was being detoured around the wreckage onto Kentucky Avenue shortly [...]

City paid nearly a million dollars for now-vacant lot

City paid nearly a million dollars for now-vacant lot

Property at 1290 Harlan St. is one of the priciest lots in the county after City paid $950,000 for three now-leveled buildings and the 1.8 acre parcel along the future FasTracks Light Rail line.