Joe Vaccarelli

3 days ago | denver7.com | Natalie Chuck |Joe Vaccarelli |Stephanie Butzer

A Colorado law firm has filed a notice that it intends to file a lawsuit against the Colorado Bureau of Investigation regarding the actions of forensic scientist Yvonne “Missy” Woods — who is already facing more than 100 criminal charges related to mishandling DNA evidence — in connection with a double homicide in 1982. The Mehr Jolly firm provided notice to CBI on Wednesday of its intent to sue.

1 week ago | koaa.com | Tony Kovaleski |Joe Vaccarelli

DENVER — More than a month after the Scripps News Group first reported that up to 20 pilots en route to Denver International Airport were unable to speak to air traffic controllers, the Federal Aviation Administration released the cause of the outage. On May 12, between 15 and 20 pilots were unable to speak with air traffic controllers for a period of five to six minutes, according to informed sources, due to multiple outages at the Denver Air Traffic Control Center in Longmont.

1 week ago | denver7.com | Tony Kovaleski |Joe Vaccarelli

More than a month after Denver7 Investigates first reported that up to 20 pilots en route to Denver International Airport were unable to speak to air traffic controllers, the Federal Aviation Administration released the cause of the outage. On May 12, between 15 and 20 pilots were unable to speak with air traffic controllers for a period of five to six minutes, according to informed sources, due to multiple outages at the Denver Air Traffic Control Center in Longmont.

2 weeks ago | denver7.com | Tony Kovaleski |Joe Vaccarelli

DENVER — When Denver City Council voted to reject a contract extension with the company that operates automated license plate readers across the city, one veteran Denver police officer said he was shocked. "It’s one of the best tools – if not the best tool – we’ve had in a long time," said the officer, who spoke to Denver7 Investigates anonymously because he’s not authorized to speak to the media.

2 weeks ago | denver7.com | Joe Vaccarelli

DENVER — A federal judge has transferred the deportation case of the family of the suspect charged in the recent Boulder terror attack to a federal court in Texas, while the temporary order halting the family’s deportation from last week remains in place. Hayam El Gamal is the wife of Mohamed Sabry Soliman, the suspect who allegedly threw molotov cocktail-like flammable devices on a crowd of peaceful protesters on June 1 in Boulder that was calling for the release of Israeli hostages in Gaza.