Former Edgewater police officer McKinzie Rees hopes to serve and protect again, but first she must get her name removed from a so-called “bad cops list” maintained by the Colorado Attorney General’s Office. It landed there, she said, as retaliation after she reported sexual assaults by a supervising sergeant. That sergeant went on to work … Read more
Robberies, felony assaults, overdose deaths, stolen vehicles, sex assaults, pass-outs behind the wheel, minors in possession, suicides — these are among the calls law enforcement responded to last year alone on Lookout Mountain Road, west of Golden. Then there’s the gunfire — bullets shot from up high raining down on the Beverly Heights neighborhood below, … Read more
It’s just the second full week of the Colorado General Assembly, but the drama is quickly ramping up. On Monday morning, House Minority Leader Mike Lynch survived a no-confidence vote prompted by his secretive handling of a drunken driving arrest, but just barely — raising the possibility his Republican colleagues will try again to oust … Read more
Colorado House Minority Leader Mike Lynch, who is running for Congress, was arrested in 2022 on suspicion of drunken driving and possessing a firearm while intoxicated, according to previously unreported law enforcement records. A Colorado State Patrol report details the arrest of Lynch, a Wellington Republican, on Sept. 30, 2022. He was charged with driving … Read more
