A 20-year-old Denver man was arrested Sunday in connection with last week’s shooting death of a Venezuelan man at an Aurora liquor store on East Colfax Avenue. The Aurora Police Department Major Crime Homicide Unit announced Monday it had apprehended Davonte McCoy Bletson on suspicion of second-degree murder in the death of the 38-year-old Aurora … Read more
Denver Parks and Recreation has fenced off portions of Sonny Lawson Park and La Alma-Lincoln Park in what the department described Friday as its latest effort to curb rising drug sales, violence and vandalism in those spaces. A pocket of grass and trees near the intersection of West 14th Avenue and Kalamath Street also was … Read more
The city agency tasked with vetting people applying to be Denver police officers and firefighters has named a new executive director after the agency’s appointed board fired the previous director in May for undisclosed reasons. The Denver Civil Service Commission will welcome Gracie Perez on Aug. 26, according to an internal announcement sent to the … Read more
The city of Denver will pay $350,000 to settle a lawsuit brought by a delivery driver who was seriously injured when a police officer crashed into him while pursuing another car on the wrong side of the road three years ago. The Denver City Council approved the settlement with Christopher Cordova and a related $40,000 … Read more
A Denver councilwoman is recovering after coming into contact with what she called “contaminated documents” at a public event recently. The Denver Police Department is now investigating. Councilwoman Flor Alvidrez, who represents District 7 in south central Denver, said in a Facebook post Monday that she was temporarily suspending in-person constituent hours after the incident, … Read more
Denver Mayor Mike Johnston will launch a new office within city government focused on neighborhood safety — one that will be independent from the city’s police force and its safety department. The concept announced by the mayor Monday is one that minority communities and progressives long have pushed for. The Johnston administration’s plan calls for … Read more
All things considered, Lindsay Minter feels lucky. Lindsay Minter in Aurora on Aug. 19, 2020. (Photo by Eli Imadali/Special to The Denver Post) She only needed to have a tooth pulled after she was hit in the face with a projectile from a rubber ball grenade flung in her direction by an unidentified Denver police … Read more
A month after coming together to unanimously approve the final contracts that supported Mayor Mike Johnston’s House 1,000 initiative, a divided Denver City Council dug in its heels on Monday on a bill that — for now at least — will prohibit some city agencies from clearing homeless encampments during freezing weather. The measure, which … Read more
Chris Miller biked to work every day from his home in Denver’s Speer neighborhood for six months, passing through a new traffic circle along the way. It’s one of dozens of tight rotary intersections that Denver has installed across the city this year, forcing vehicle traffic to go around center circles. Miller, 39, said the … Read more
Denver bar and music venue So Many Roads Brewery, the site of protests and police investigations over the last two years, will close in mid-January 2024, co-founder Jay Bianchi wrote on Facebook. “As we say goodbye to 2023 and hello to 2024, it pains me to say that after 28 years we will not be … Read more
