Denver Crime Report newsletter
The latest news from the crime and courts beat for Thursday, May 8
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Thursday, May 8, 2025

Stolen car crashes into building at Centennial Airport after police chase

The car fleeing Douglas County sheriff’s deputies “failed to navigate a turn” at the end of the road and crashed into a Centennial Airport building that’s part offices and part airplane hangar.

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Denver inmate dies at Downtown Detention Center

A man at Denver’s Downtown Detention Center was found nonresponsive in his housing unit at about 9 p.m. Wednesday, according to the city’s sheriff’s department.

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Charges dropped against 3 officers in Christian Glass death in deal for additional training, video

Prosecutors initially charged all seven law enforcement officers who were at the scene when then-Clear Creek County sheriff’s deputy Andrew Buen shot and killed Christian Glass on June 10, 2022.

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Man sentenced to 25 years in prison for fatal Commerce City shooting

A man pleaded guilty to second-degree murder and was sentenced to 25 years in prison for the shooting death of a 37-year-old man at a Commerce City home in 2023.

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Murder charges dropped in shooting death of Aurora teenager amid lack of evidence

Arapahoe County District Attorney’s office officials said they were ethically bound to drop the second-degree murder charges in the death of Audrina Arrington because of a lack of evidence.

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Woman shot in bus terminal under Denver’s Union Station dies

Ileana Hernandez, 19, was shot in the neck while on an escalator at RTD’s bus terminal beneath Union Station. The alleged shooter was out on bond in a separate assault case when the shooting occurred.

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Boulder teacher who pleaded guilty to child abuse is fighting to keep job as school board weighs his firing

Daniel Greenberg, initially charged with sexual assault of a child and other crimes, pleaded guilty last month to one count of child abuse and one count of harassment.

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Man hospitalized after car chase, police shooting in Lincoln County

A Lincoln County Deputy fired at the suspect’s car as he drove away from the Limon gas station, but law enforcement declined to comment on whether anyone inside was hit.

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Elderly Denver couple killed in early morning house fire

An elderly couple were killed Wednesday morning in an early morning house fire in southeastern Denver’s Washington Virginia Vale neighborhood, fire officials said.

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Federal judge grants injunction, indefinitely bars Trump’s use of Alien Enemies Act in Colorado