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Heather Willard / NewsBreak Denver / March 16, 2023. (Greenwood Village, Colo.) A 69-year-old ex-psychiatrist pleaded guilty on March 8 to distributing controlled substances outside the usual course of professional practice with no legitimate medical purpose, as well as structuring financial transactions to evade reporting requirements and using the funds for financial transactions over $10,000.

Heather Willard / NewsBreak Denver / Feb. 22, 2023. (Castle Rock, Colo.) The 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office is pursuing four additional felony charges against a Castle Rock man accused of killing his mother and setting the house on fire to cover up the crime.

(Centennial, Colo.) Arapahoe County Sheriff’s deputies arrested a suspect on charges related to stolen catalytic converters recovered by detectives on Oct. 7, 2022. Three catalytic converters were stolen from Toyota Tacoma trucks at Eco Shield Pest Solutions in Centennial. Arapahoe County deputies recovered the trio of stolen items from a scrap yard in Denver but did not pursue charges against the scrap yard.

(Cripple Creek, Colo.) The Colorado Bureau of Investigations is seeking possible additional victims of a former Cripple Creek police sergeant. CBI is investigating Alexander Kenoyer, 36. Agents found several explicit images and videos, possibly from the internet or filmed by Kenoyer, of women. Some may have been filmed or photographed without consent or been aware their image was being captured but believed it would remain private.

Heather Willard / NewsBreak Denver / Jan. 27, 2023. (Douglas County, Colo.) Colorado Governor Jared Polis appointed Douglas County Sheriff Darren Weekly to the Colorado Human Trafficking Council.

By the time Charlie Stephens arrived in Denver in 1921, he already had a rap sheet in Missouri listing 46 arrests. He didn't come the Mile High City to start fresh, however. Stephens picked up where he left off by running Denver's most high-end gambling clubs. He employed Smaldone brothers Clyde and Eugene, aka "Checkers", part of Denver's Italian mob family.

(Castle Rock, Colo.) A Nov. 29 shooting death at an apartment complex was likely spurred by a failed romantic tryst, according to an arrest affidavit submitted by the Castle Rock Police Department.

Heather Willard / NewsBreak Denver / Jan. 11, 2022. (Parker, Colo.) The Parker Police Department seeks contact information for residents with exterior home cameras to help potential investigations.

Heather Willard / NewsBreak Denver / Jan. 11, 2023. (Douglas County, Colo.) Modern-day slavery occurs across the U.S., and Douglas County isn’t immune. Human trafficking is a wide-ranging illicit industry, which can be hard to identify and is often stereotyped.

(Arapahoe County, Colo.) Additional charges were filed against a delivery driver accused of killing a man after hitting him with a semi-truck. The victim was identified as Guillermo Duran-Mejia, 55, by the Arapahoe County Coroner’s Office. According to the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office, deputies responded to a welfare check regarding Duran-Mejia’s body lying next to a white passenger van at 1 Digicomm Drive at approximately 11:30 a.m. on Dec. 28.

Heather Willard / NewsBreak Denver / Dec. 13, 2022. (Aurora, Colo.) Mexican immigration officers arrested a suspect in north-central Mexico with FBI assistance for the Oct. 30 quadruple homicide in Aurora.

(Elizabeth, Colo.) A report of possible suicidal thoughts by a father in custody of his five-year-old daughter led to discovering the pair’s bodies on Thursday, Dec. 1, in an Elbert County park. The case is being investigated as a murder-suicide.

(18th Judicial DA's Office) Heather Willard / NewsBreak Denver / Oct. 18, 2022. (Aurora, Colo.) Antonio Espinosa-Tovar, 29, was sentenced to 20 years in prison on Friday, Oct. 13, after a jury found him guilty of child abuse and possession of a controlled substance with intent to distribute.

(18th Judicial DA's Office) Heather Willard / NewsBreak Denver / Oct. 14, 2022. (Aurora, Colo.) Colorado’s 18th Judicial District Attorney’s Office issued a felony arrest warrant for a man, thought to have fled the country, who is wanted in connection to a 2006 murder of an Aurora woman.

(Douglas County Sheriff's Office) (Douglas County, Colo.) The Douglas County Sheriff’s Office seeks information about the identity of two alleged thieves while warning citizens to keep track of their wallets.

(Parker Police Department) Heather Willard / NewsBreak Denver / Sept. 30, 2022. (Parker, Colorado) The 48-year-old Parker owner of Strength in Christ Athletes is under arrest for allegedly sexually assaulting a child as an adult in a position of trust.

(Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office) Heather Willard / NewsBreak Denver / Sept. 29, 2022. (Centennial, Colo.) Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office investigators are searching for a pair of car thieves believed to be armed and dangerous.

(Douglas County, Colo.) Colorado teens are much more likely to report that they live with someone who has a substance use disorder or is addicted to alcohol or drugs than they were two years ago, according to a survey of 718 Colorado teens.

(Douglas County Sheriff's Office) Heather Willard / NewsBreak Denver / Sept. 22, 2022. (Highlands Ranch, Colo.) The Douglas County Sheriff's Office seeks information about two open and active Douglas County cases involving Joseph Spector, 44, of Highlands Ranch.