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4 days ago
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2 children, ages 10 and 8, missing from Lowry area: Denver police
DENVER (KDVR) — The Denver Police Department announced Tuesday evening that it was searching for two missing children last seen at about 12:45 p.m. The girls, 10-year-old Honor Pride-White and 8-year-old Honesty Pride-White, were last on foot and bike in the 500 block of North Alton Way, which is in the Lowry neighborhood of Denver. FOX31 Newsletters: Sign up to get breaking news sent to your inbox The department said that Honor was wearing a blue shirt and black pants and said he is described as a Black male with brown hair and brown eyes, about five feet, one inch tall, and weighing about 170 pounds. Honesty was reportedly wearing a pink sweater and pink pants. She is described as a Black female with brown hair and brown eyes, standing about four feet, 11 inches tall and weighing about 130 pounds. Anyone with information is asked to contact the Denver Police Department immediately at 720-913-2000 and press 2. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Miami Herald
5 days ago
- Miami Herald
How the Denver Police Department's crime lab pioneered a crime-solving fingerprint system
DENVER - If you leave an identifiable fingerprint at a crime scene along Colorado's Front Range, it probably won't be long before 32 different police agencies know about it. That's because of a pioneering information-sharing system created by the Denver Police Department's Denver Crime Laboratory that allows four different Colorado crime labs to connect fingerprint evidence across departments, cases and crimes. Leaders at the Denver Crime Lab believe the system, dubbed the Latent Print Case Association Program, is the first - and only - such system in the United States. "We have a DNA database that connects cases to cases, we have a firearms evidence database that connects cases to cases - latent prints didn't have anything like that," said Amy Williams, supervisor of the latent print unit at the Denver Crime Lab. So the lab created it. Now, when an analyst identifies a fingerprint as connected to a particular person, they can run that person's information through the system to see if that person left fingerprints at any other crime scenes. The check crosses jurisdictions and is almost instantaneous, Williams said. The new system helps detectives build stronger cases and ensures investigators learn about connections to other crimes early on in the process, said Sgt. Todd Erickson, who heads DPD's auto theft team. In the past, a detective might not have known about a contemporaneous crime in another city until the other police department finished its investigation and prosecutors there pressed charges. Now, that connection is made at the front end of a case, he said, allowing detectives to work together and coordinate during their investigations. "Which helps us too, obviously, when they are going to court and facing four counts of stealing cars instead of just one," Erickson said. "Maybe they can stay in (jail) so they are not out revictimizing." The information-sharing system Denver created is different from the state and federal Automated Fingerprint Identification Systems. Those databases allow analysts to compare a fingerprint against many others to find potential matches and ultimately identify the suspect who left the fingerprint. The information-sharing system starts once the suspect's fingerprint has already been identified, and makes connections from there to other cases where fingerprints tie back to the same suspect. The Denver Crime Lab's system was launched for cases within only the Denver Police Department in 2018, but expanded to include four crime laboratories in 2023, broadening its reach to 32 police agencies spanning from metro Denver to Colorado Springs. The system was instrumental in identifying the members of an auto theft crew who targeted cars parked at the Denver International Airport a couple of years ago because it connected incidents that spanned jurisdictions across the metro area to the same repeat offenders, Williams said. About 3,000 fingerprint identifications have been entered into Denver's information-sharing program since 2023. Those entries resulted in 234 case associations involving 110 suspects whose criminal activity spanned two or more jurisdictions, according to the Denver Police Department. ---------- Copyright (C) 2025, Tribune Content Agency, LLC. Portions copyrighted by the respective providers.
Yahoo
25-05-2025
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Denver police investigating crash involving a pedestrian
DENVER (KDVR) — Police are on the scene of a crash involving a pedestrian, according to a post on X from the Denver Police Department. Things to do around Denver during Memorial Day Weekend The crash occurred near the intersection of South Logan Street and Louisiana Avenue. Police said the crash involved a motorist and a pedestrian. Investigators said the crash resulted in serious injuries, and one person was transported to a local hospital, but the extent of their injuries is unknown. Delays are expected in the area, and alternate routes are advised. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
Yahoo
24-05-2025
- Health
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Denver to install naloxone vending machines at police stations to combat overdose crisis
DENVER (KDVR) — A new tool in the fight against Colorado's overdose crisis is being installed outside three Denver Police Department locations. The city is partnering with The Naloxone Project and the Colorado Attorney General's Office to launch harm reduction vending machines that dispense free naloxone kits. Naloxone is a fast-acting medication that can reverse an opioid overdose. Arrest made in Littleton elder financial fraud case The first machines will be installed at police headquarters and two additional stations next week. The goal: make the overdose reversal drug accessible in areas where it's needed most. 'About two months ago, we started working with DPD again to further our partnership,' said Joshua Jacoves, Program Director of The Naloxone Project. 'We have that kit at headquarters by Civic Center because we see on Colfax, there are a lot of those overdoses occurring.' Each vending machine contains kits with intranasal naloxone and easy-to-follow instructions. The kits are free, no insurance or identification required. Jacoves noted that overdose deaths are continuing to rise across the state. 'Overdose deaths are happening everywhere across the country and in Colorado,' he said. '2024, we saw about a little over 80,000 people pass away from an opioid overdose in Colorado, and especially in Denver, the last data we saw in 2023 was that we had 600 Denver residents pass away from an overdose.' Some critics argue that distributing naloxone might encourage riskier drug use, but Jacoves pushed back on that claim, comparing the criticism to past resistance to public safety tools. 'Naloxone is very similar to a lot of these other big public safety efforts we've had in the US,' he said. 'Critics said the same thing about seat belts and said seat belts encourage dangerous driving. We are really again covering the city in a blanket of protection, to make sure that people aren't going to use a little riskier, because they're not, but they are going to have the antidote in case something happens.' The program's impact is already measurable. At a pilot machine installed in April, more than 1,000 kits have been taken in less than two months. 'Every single time myself, my coordinator, my intern, goes to restock… someone comes up to us and tells us a story about how naloxone saved their cousin's life, a brother's life, they saw someone reverse an overdose on the street across from where the machine was,' Jacoves said. FOX31 visited the pilot site this week, where nearly two-thirds of the machine's contents had already been taken. 'As you can see, this was restocked at 12 on Tuesday, and we are probably two thirds empty already,' said a representative during the site visit. Leaders said having police serve as the host sites sends a strong message. 'Having police here in Denver lead the way with this station effort, I think, shows the commitment of our side and the police side to keeping our city safe,' Jacoves said. Jokic makes All-NBA First Team, history upon history Officials in Aurora told FOX31 they are researching whether to implement similar machines. Meanwhile, the Naloxone Project said it's always looking for volunteers to help assemble the kits. Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
CBS News
21-05-2025
- CBS News
Denver police arrest sexual assault suspect, believes there may be more victims
The Denver Police Department is looking for information on possible victims of a man suspected of sexual assault, kidnapping, and other offenses. Authorities said 36-year-old Glen Orion Meridith was arrested on May 13. The Denver District Attorney's Office charged him with sexual assault, kidnapping, menacing and second-degree assault. Denver Police Department Police said there may be more victims, and encouraged anyone who believes they were a victim of Meridith to contact the DPD Sex Crimes Unit at (720) 913-6040.
