Forgery: An officer was dispatched Jan. 27 to Tay Do Checking & Cashing at 7404 Irving Street in reference to a fraud call. A 24-year-old Denver man told the officer that his security deposit check of $120.95 was intercepted, endorsed and cashed by someone using his name. He said he used to live at Towne Centre Apartments on West 91st Avenue and was to pick up his check at his old mailbox there. The officer forwarded the case to investigations for further follow-up.
Aggravated robbery armed with deadly weapon: An officer was dispatched Jan. 24 to meet a robbery victim at Betty Adams Elementary School at 6450 95th Place. Dispatched advised the officer that the victim was at his residence instead. An 18-year-old man told the officer he was meeting a girl to get something to eat and saw her car parked near the school He walked over to where she was and saw a brownish-gray Dodge Ram truck drive toward him without headlights on. The truck passed him and pulled over in front of the girl’s car. When a passenger in the truck looked at the girl and she smiled back at him, he knew something was up. He turned and saw the two men get out of the truck and run toward him. He ran to the playground area of Betty Adams Elementary School and stopped when he thought he couldn’t get out. Both men ran up behind him and poked him with the end of a baseball bat in the left eye. They taunted him about shooting him, although the man never saw a gun. They then told him to give them everything he had, so he handed over his cell phone and wallet. They then wanted his clothing, so he took off his coat, red shorts, a shirt and his tennis shoes. The men then hit him two more times with the bat and kicked him in his side. He then took off running for his house in his boxer shorts and socks. The officer noted a cut over the man’s left eye and an abrasion on his right side. His hands hurt from blocking their final swings at him with the bat. The suspects got away with about $160 in cash and items.
Second-degree burglary: An officer was dispatched Jan. 24 to the 5600 block of 75th Drive in reference to a theft. A 32-year-old man said that someone entered his unsecured garage and stole his mountain bike. Nothing else appeared to be missing or disturbed. The man provided a serial number, and the bike was entered into CCIC/NCIC as stolen.
Child abuse, knowlingly and recklessly causing bodily injury: An officer was dispatched Jan. 23 to the 8600 block of Zuni Street in reference to a cold child abuse. A 28-year-old Arvada man said that he has joint custody of his child with his ex-wife and that after picking the child up, he noticed bruising and red marks on the left side of the child’s neck. When the man asked how he got those marks, the child responded by acting out a chocking motion. The child said that he got in trouble and was choked against a wall at his mother’s house by her boyfriend. When the ex-wife and the boyfriend were interviewed, they said it may have been caused from wrestling and roughhousing, and that the child was never left alone with the boyfriend. The 29-year-old man was issued a summons for child abuse and Adams County Social Services was notified of the incident.
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