Just as sure as the sun will rise green and warm on St. Patrick's Day, the Denver Police Department will have extra patrols out looking for inebriated drivers throughout the celebration of all things Irish. Let's take a quick look at a few things you can do tonight...
Month: March 2015
St. Patrick’s Day prompts DPD crackdown on DUI
Tomorrow morning, Denver's pubs can expect unusually green and heavy traffic as the streets downtown fill with shamrock-festooned crowds there to watch the annual parade. It is all part of one of the nation's biggest celebrations of St. Patrick's Day.The Denver Police...
You Have Been Charged With DUI/DUID ― Now What?
When you find yourself facing DUI or DUID charges in Colorado, countless questions may begin to run through you mind. How much will my fine be? Will I have to go to jail? How can I be charged with DUID now that marijuana is legal? In order to help answer these many...
Vehicular assault charges loom for Denver-area woman
It's the kind of traffic story no one wants to see: seven people injured in a crash, including two young girls and three young girls, as well as two women and a man. Their injuries include broken bones and ribs, according to a Denver TV station.The four-vehicle crash...
Two Denver police officers arrested for alleged drunken driving
Longtime readers will undoubtedly recall some of our previous blog posts about Denver police officers who were arrested for allegedly driving drunk. Two more DPD officers have been arrested in recent days, including one about an hour south of us in Castle Rock.He was...
Hickenlooper to push PR against prescription painkiller abuse
As part of his campaign to make Colorado residents the healthiest in the nation, Gov. John Hickenlooper has launched a PR campaign about the dangers of prescription drug abuse. "This campaign is just one part of a coordinated, statewide strategy that simultaneously...
Did your prescription result in a DUID arrest?
Today's physicians have amazing pharmaceutical aids to help patients with a variety of serious ailments that were often ignored or undertreated in the past, including depression, anxiety, sleeplessness, back pain, migraine headaches and so on. As with everything else...
Colorado felony DUI debate continues
An hour north of Denver, an editorial in a Colorado newspaper is calling for state legislators to enact a felony drunk driving bill. As regular readers of our blog know, the felony bill has been repeatedly proposed in recent years, each time falling a bit short of...
One mistake after another
Denver's CBS TV affiliate reports that a man visiting a famous Colorado skiing area has been accused of mistaking a silver Jeep Cherokee for a silver Ford Escape. That was the first in a string of mistakes by the man, according to Steamboat Springs police.They say the...