Logan Smith

6 days ago | cbsnews.com | Logan Smith

A Broomfield man convicted yesterday of impersonating his wife's stalker was sentenced to life in prison Friday for her murder.  Daniel Krug, 44, won't ever be eligible for parole. Evidence presented at his murder trial suggested Krug used a fake social media identities, a phony email address and burner phones to harass his wife in the month's prior to killing her. Krug connived the scheme to throw investigators of his tracks, prosecutors alleged, and "terrorized" his wife.

1 week ago | cbsnews.com | Logan Smith

The U.S. Department of Justice announced its intent to seek the maximum penalty against 56-year-old Ishmael Petty should its prosecutors succeed in convicting him of murdering a second fellow inmate. That maximum penalty is death. A federal grand in Denver indicted Petty on two murder counts Tuesday. He was already serving a life sentence in a federal penitentiary, the Administrative Maximum Facility (ADX), located in Florence, Colorado.

1 week ago | cbsnews.com | Logan Smith

What started out as a complaint about a woman throwing trash out of her car window at a nature park Wednesday morning turned into a fiasco with the driver arrested on an array of new charges. Three vehicles were rammed by the driver as she tried to escape, including two patrol cruisers belonging to the Mesa County Sheriff's Office. After hitting other vehicles, the woman tried to drive through a fence surrounding the parking lot at the Clifton Nature Park.

1 week ago | cbsnews.com | Logan Smith

Two people suffered serious injuries Saturday evening when gunshots were fired by someone in an adjacent car into theirs. Three children in the back seat of the car were unhurt. According to the Aurora Police Department, an unknown person in a vehicle pulled up alongside the vehicle containing the man, woman, and three children and fired several shots. The man and woman were both struck. The incident happened at about 7:20 p.m. as the man was driving southbound on Airport Road near Colfax Avenue.

2 weeks ago | cbsnews.com | Logan Smith

The leaders of two violent gangs are the last of two dozen people prosecuted for a frightening amount of violence committed in the Denver metro area during the COVID-19 pandemic. The two gangs were responsible for a number of car thefts, assaults, drive-by shootings, and murders. The Figureheads   The Denver District Attorney's Office separately announced earlier this month the guilty pleas entered by 44-year-old Phillip Baca, Sr., and 22-year-old Angel "Taz" Espinoza.