LOVELAND, Colo. A man from Loveland was arrested on nearly two dozen counts of burglary and theft charges, including 14 felonies. Craig Clemons, 51, was booked into the Larimer County Jail in early April. The court set a $20,000 cash surety bond. Beginning in September 2023, the Larimer County Sheriffs Office investigated multiple reports of theft in the Berthoud and south Loveland areas, mostly at businesses and construction sites, the sheriff's office said. The string of crimes began with a jet ski theft around south Loveland. For several months, investigators looked into each case and were ..read more

LOVELAND, Colo. Three suspects, including a 13-year-old boy were arrested in connection to a violent home invasion earlier in April. Loveland police said officers responded to a 911 call for help on April 3 and discovered residents of a home in the 1600 block of East 16th Street were victims of the home invasion. According to a news release, two suspects allegedly robbed three victims inside the residence, sprayed them with pepper spray and stabbed one of the victims in the head. Loveland police said that the victim was treated and released. Over the course of a couple of days, investigators w ..read more

LOVELAND, Colo. Good vibes, for a good cause. That's the idea behind the northern Colorado food packing event Slammin' Famine which brings volunteers in the community together, to pack and ship meals around the world for hungry children. "We get people excited when they pack a box, and that's really part of why people come back," said Brian Zonnefeld, one of the co-founders of Slammin' Famine. "It's a lot of work, a lot of hours, but as soon as we step in here and see the impact here and abroad it makes everything worthwhile." And at this packing event, hundreds of people came out to support t ..read more

DENVER Three people have been arrested nearly three weeks after committing an armed robbery in Loveland, according to a spokesperson with the police department. The crime was reported on March 21 shortly before 1 a.m. to the Loveland Emergency Communications Center, which received a weapons complaint on E. 23rd St. near the intersection with N. Monroe Ave. in Loveland, just north of Silver Lake. The person who made that call reported to police that they thought they heard two gunshots in the area. Responding officers found pieces of what appeared to be ammunition from a shot gun blast in the i ..read more

UPDATE: The missing man was safely located, according to CBI. The Senior Alert has been deactivated. LAPORTE, Colo. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation has issued a Senior Alert for a missing 88-year-old man last seen in northern Colorado. Lee Carter, 88, was last seen leaving the 4600 block of Kiva Drive in Laporte around 4 p.m. Wednesday. His vehicle was seen around 6:40 p.m. near 3500 East Eisenhower Boulevard in Loveland. Carter is 5 feet 9 inches tall and 174 pounds with white hair and blue eyes. He was last seen wearing a brown plaid shirt and gray pants. His vehicle is a tan 2005 Toyot ..read more

DENVER A former officer with the Loveland Police Department is now facing federal charges for sexually assaulting a minor while on duty, according to court documents filed by prosecutors in the U.S. District Court of Colorado last week. Dylan Miller was already facing several state charges before the federal indictment was filed on March 20. Those charges include: First-degree kidnapping (Class 2 felony) Sex assault on a child - position of trust (Class 3 felony) Unlawful sexual conduct by a peace officer (Class 3 felony) Sex assault (Class 6 felony) Official oppression First-degree official m ..read more

LOVELAND, Colo. A Loveland police officer removed his body-worn camera before sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in a park last summer, according to his arrest affidavit. Dylan Miller, who was fired from the Loveland Police Department on the same day he was arrested in November 2023, faces several charges, including: First-degree kidnapping (Class 2 felony) Sex assault on a child - position of trust (Class 3 felony) Unlawful sexual conduct by a peace officer (Class 3 felony) Sex assault (Class 6 felony) Official oppression First-degree official misconduct The Larimer County Sheriff's Offic ..read more

LOVELAND, Colo. A Fort Collins juvenile was arrested Thursday after he allegedly shot at someone while at a Loveland apartment complex. Around 2:30 p.m. Thursday, a person called 911 and reported that four juvenile males known to have issues with another tenant were at the Autumn Lakes Apartments. The four are not residents of the apartment complex, the Loveland Police Department said in a press release. According to the department, the caller asked the juveniles to leave and was shot at but not hit. The four got into a gray Jeep Renegade and drove northbound on Monroe Avenue. The Jeep was lat ..read more

LOVELAND, Colo. An arrest has been made 1.5 years after a murdered woman was found in the river near a Loveland park. Around 11:12 a.m. on August 22, 2022, officers were called out to an area near Barnes Park, located at 405 South Cleveland Avenue, after an unresponsive woman was found in the river. She was declared dead at the scene by medical personnel. The Larimer County Coroner's Office identified the woman as Chantell Wilkes, 49, of Loveland. Investigators identified Asa Peck, 45, as a suspect. Peck was arrested around 5:30 p.m. Wednesday near the intersection of North Garfield and West 4 ..read more

LOVELAND, Colo. (AP) Love is in the air ... and the mail ... in the northern Colorado city of Loveland. Every year, tens of thousands of people from around the world route their Valentines to the "Sweetheart City" to get a special inscription and the coveted Loveland postmark. The re-mailing tradition started nearly 80 years ago and is the largest of its kind in the world. At its height, volunteers processed more than 300,000 pieces of mail per year. That number dropped to 100,000 to 125,000 as people turned to email and social media messages. The program receives mail from all 50 states and 1 ..read more