Denver Crime Report newsletter
The latest news from the crime and courts beat for Monday, August 3
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Monday, August 3, 2026

No arrests made after ‘illegal street takeover’ in Denver, police say

Videos shared by neighbors on social media appeared to show cars doing donuts and fireworks exploding as people ran between the vehicles in the Denver intersection.

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2 girls missing from Arapahoe County last seen Wednesday

Arapahoe County law enforcement is searching for 11-year-old Auraelia Garcia and 14-year-old Paityn Maul, who were last seen in Centennial on Wednesday.

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4 stabbed, 1 arrested in north Denver, police say

Four people were stabbed in northern Denver’s Globeville neighborhood on Saturday, and one person was arrested, police said.

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Teenage girl shot, killed in west Aurora, police say

A teenage girl was fatally shot in western Aurora on Saturday and another juvenile was arrested in her death, police said.

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Colorado man gets life in prison for fatal domestic violence shooting

A Colorado man was sentenced to life in prison for a fatally shooting a woman he abducted from a Westminster hotel in a domestic violence incident, the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said.

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Denver International Airport back to normal after clearing ‘possible security threat’

Denver police cleared the bag shortly before 7 p.m. and DIA operations are getting back to normal, including the west security checkpoint, departures area and United Airlines check-in counters, airport officials said.

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Gov. Polis orders flags at half-staff for 4th firefighter to die from Western Slope fire

Gov. Jared Polis ordered that Colorado flags be flown at half staff Friday in honor of Nathan Matthews, a firefighter who died last week from injuries he sustained while responding to fires on the Western Slope.