Denver – On June 30, 2023, investigators with the Denver Police Fraud Unit were contacted about an elder abuse case by a bank investigator at Westerra Credit Union. It is alleged that Thanh Tran took advantage of an elderly person through checks for close to $140,000. Denver Police Detectives Investigators learned that between March 2023…

DENVER— Today, Emmanuel Chandler was found guilty of murder. On February 25, 2021, a call to 911 stated that there was a victim, later identified as Roxann Martinez (32 years old), lying in a street gutter near 3800 block of South Wabash Street with blood surrounding her head. After shooting Roxann Martinez, Emmanuel Chandler, the…

DENVER— “I’m finally free,” shouted one woman as she danced her way out of the AID Center holding her cleared warrant.  On Saturday July 8th 57 people with outstanding Denver warrants lined up outside the Assessment, Intake and Diversion (AID) Center  at 1370 Elati Street in Denver to regain their freedom as their 77 outstanding…

DENVER—On June 30th, 2023 Neshan Johnson was sentenced for the murder of Pamela Cabriales. Johnson was sentenced in Denver District Court to serve 35 years in the Department of Corrections and 14 years of parole.   During the sentencing Pamela Cabriales’s friends and family spoke of Pamela as a person who was the very “best…

DENVER—On New Year’s Eve 2022, 24-year-old Devonte Phillips and 29-year-old Hiyaw Zewdie were shot and killed at the Cabin Tap House in Denver’s LoDo area. Prosecutors with the Denver District Attorney’s Office charged then-22-year-old Levi Diecidue with their murders. On Friday, June 30, 2023, the Honorable Judge Nikea Bland sentenced Diecidue to serve a 62-year sentence in…

DENVER—In September 2021, Katherine “Katy” Pivoda and her friend Jennifer Gelvin were found stabbed to death in the backyard of Pivoda’s Denver home by Denver Police Department officers. Officers also contacted Pivoda’s former husband, Matthew Madden (current age 38), who was in the house covered in blood and holding a knife. Prosecutors with the Denver…

DENVER—On Friday, June 23, 2023, after deliberating for approximately nine hours, a Denver jury found Steven Cumberbatch (currently 61-years-old) guilty of murdering Rita DesJardine. Ms. DesJardine was 36-years old when in December 1994, her body was found in a Denver motel room. The jury found Cumberbatch guilty of one count of murder in the first…

DENVER—Prosecutors with the Denver DA’s Office today announced that Stephen Long (age 25) is charged with two counts of first degree murder following an alleged road rage incident on I-25 in Denver that occurred just before 3:00 p.m. on June 13, 2023. That incident resulted in the shooting deaths of two brothers, Mr. Blake Lucas…

DENVER—After deliberating for approximately four hours on Friday, a Denver jury found Warren Simpson (age 43) guilty of second degree murder for the shooting death of Mr. Robert Turner who was 54-years-old at the time he was killed. The trial lasted five days. On October 25, 2021, Denver police responded to a 911 call and…

DENVER—On May 20, 2023, Denver Police Department officers responded to a 911 call and found a woman shot in the leg and a man dead in an apartment at 8th and Cherry Street. On June 1, 2023, the Denver Office of the Medical Examiner found that the man who was later identified as John Martinez…