Moore, 65, is suspected of planting a crude explosive device inside a Jefferson County mall last week, and is now the subject of a nationwide manhunt.

The incident at Southwest Plaza occurred one week after Moore was released from federal prison in Georgia, and about four miles from the Denver apartment where he lived for several years before his 2005 arrest for bank robbery.

Authorities have searched all of Moore’s former addresses in Colorado and have spoken with distant relatives, but they have no confirmed sightings since Moore was seen at the mall last Wednesday, FBI Spokesman Dave Joly said today.

Denver County court records show the owners of The Pines apartments near Quincy Avenue and South Sheridan Boulevard filed in court to evict Moore and a female relative in October 2004 for failure to pay rent. Moore had lived in the apartment for about four years, according to public record searches.

Two banks also had filed civil actions against Moore, saying he owed them more than $10,000.

In March 2004, Moore was arrested for theft and possession of burglary tools after a Costco security guard saw him slitting open boxes and shoving merchandise in his coat.

According to police reports, when an officer arrived at the store on South Havana Street he found 24 computer storage discs worth $1,560 inside the lining of Moore’s coat.

Moore, who also was carrying a small knife, told the officer “I did it. I got caught,” according to the report.

That summer Moore agreed to a plea deal in which he would receive two years probation. But he failed to show up for his September 2004 sentencing.

A warrant was still out for his arrest when he walked into a bank in Crab Orchard, West Virginia, in March 2005 waved a gun, and fled with $2,546, according to court records.

Police arrested him about 10 minutes later, after Moore walked into a nearby convenience store and a clerk noticed red dye on his hands from the dye packs the bank had included with the money, according to a story from The Register-Herald in Beckley, West Virginia.

Moore had used makeup to paint on a fake beard, and crashed his getaway car into a snowbank about a half mile away from the bank. Police found the money in the trunk of his car.

A bank employee said this morning that Moore told officers at the time that he needed to rob the bank because his wife was dying from cancer, but it was unclear whether that story ever was confirmed.

Moore was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison, but his sentence was reduced to seven years after he assisted prosecutors with information on another case, according to court records. He spent most of that time at a medium-security prision in South Carolina.

He had a previous conviction for larceny in El Paso County in 1998. That case also involved a rental property, court records show.

In 2010, the Colorado Department of Revenue also filed a civil case against Moore, saying he owed the state $2,819.

They believe he returned to the area around 11:30 a.m. on Wednesday, placed two propane tanks and a makeshift pipebomb in a hallway used mostly by mall employees, and then started a fire.

A mall employee noticed the fire and a security guard was able to extinguish it before firefighters arrived. No one was hurt.

Last week, police arrested four Denver people for allegedly trying to pass phony $100 bills and even found two of the counterfeit bills hidden in an unusual place on one of the suspects.

The fours arrests: Serene Donlan, 26; Ebonee Bryant, 27; Helaman Lucero, 25, and Felicia Munoz, 24; were all Denver residents. Three of them are women, and Lucero was identified by police as a “transsexual — a man living as a woman.”

All four were booked into Weld County Jail on charges of forgery and theft.

According to court records, the four suspects were arrested by police after four stores in the Centerplace Shopping Center in west Greeley reported they were given counterfeit $100 bills.

The suspects were also accused of passing some of the counterfeit bills at the Outlet Stores in Loveland.

Officers recovered several $100 bills that were counterfeit, according to court affidavits, and when officers asked Lucero about other counterfeit bills, Lucero said they were hidden in a specific area of his body. Police sent Lucero to a restroom, where he removed the bills and left them on the restroom floor for police to collect.

In most cases, the four suspects went to stores, purchased gift certificates for about $25, and got the rest of the money in change.

In downtown Greeley, Kimberly Bode of Woody’s Newsstand, 9th Avenue and 10th Street, said she’s received four counterfeit bills in the past few months.

“One was a $5 bill that was changed to look like a $50 bill,” Bode said. “When we took the 50, our employee used the pen to check the bill, and it showed up as real.”

Many stores now use a counterfeit detector pen, and the ink will change color to black when it’s used on a phony bill. When the bill was checked at Woody’s, it didn’t change color because the counterfeiter had used a real $5 bill.

Bode said they also received three phony $5 bills in the past few weeks, but they were poor copies and should have been caught by the employees.

“But they (the counterfeit bill passers) usually hit a store at its busiest time,” Bode said, “so the clerks don’t always have the time to check a $5 bill closely.”

Greeley Police Officer Greg Tarantino works with downtown merchants on crime problems and offers advice about counterfeit bills.

“In most cases, the ink, paper and printing on the phony bills are very different, very poor quality,” Tarantino said.

Merchants who get a bill that appears to be phony should refuse to give change to the customer and call 911. The clerk or merchant should not try to detain the customer if he or she leaves.

“In most cases,” Tarantino said, “I tell merchants that if a bill feels funny, it probably is.”

The police are at war with the people.
It’s time for the people to be at war with the police.

The robbery occurred about 11:20 a.m., when the pair, armed with handguns, grabbed cash from at least one teller at American National Bank, 1095 W. Garden of the Gods Road, police told the newspaper.

The call came in just before 6 a.m. Denver Fire was the only agency that responded.

The fire started on the outside of the building and did spread onto the roof. According to DFD, the blaze never got into any units. The units near the fire were evacuated.

No word yet on the cause of the fire or how much the condos were damaged.

Just before midnight, the officer was stopped on Federal Boulevard near West 23rd Avenue when a car hit the cruiser’s back left side, said Sonny Jackson, spokesman for the Denver Police Department.

The car then continued south in the northbound lanes of Federal Boulevard and at one point drove onto a sidewalk.

Police caught up to the car in the 1700 block of Grove Street, where they arrested the male driver, Jackson said.

The officer was taken to an area hospital with back pain.

The driver, whose name was not released, faces charges of felony eluding and hit-and-run and other traffic-related charges, Jackson said.

1PM: Students at Hinkley High School held an occupation / sit-in, then they walked out of school and about 100 students have taken to the streets. They are reporting that all of the students who walked out have been suspended.

Denver, CO, April 3, 2011 – College students, union members, organization leaders, community activists and others will join together on Monday, April 4, 2011, to commemorate the 43rd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr’s march for sanitation workers in Memphis, Tennessee, followed by his famous last “Promised Land” speech, and assassination on April 4th, 1968.

A Justice for Janitors (SEIU) march will begin at 17th and California streets at 11:30 and will conclude at Tivoli Square (SW corner of Tivoli between the King Center and the Plaza Building) in Denver for a “Teach-in”. An anti-capitalist radical workers’ bloc has been called for the march.

From 12:15 – 2:00pm, a panel of community leaders representing labor, immigration, education, civil rights, the inter-faith community, and other areas will speak about worker’s rights and social justice.

The Student Labor Action Project (SLAP) have coordinated a student “walk-out” to attend the events on campus, and to send a message of solidarity with workers.

The Communications Workers of America (CWA) will also hold a rally from 1:00-3:00 pm at 17th and Esplanade in City Park, near the MLK statue, to protest the Dex Corporation outsourcing American jobs.

An evening Rally and Candlelight Vigil to honor workers, organized by Colorado AFL-CIO, will begin at 5:30pm at City Park Band Shell, on the east side of Ferrell Lake (near E. 17th and Steele Street entrance). An anti-capitalist radical workers’ bloc has been called for the rally/vigil.

Meanwhile, similar events will be held in Colorado Springs and other cities.

The following is a statement issued by the Denver General Membership Branch of the IWW calling anti-capitalists to converge on the April 4th labor actions in Denver. There will be an anti-capitalist and radical worker’s bloc participating in the march beginning at 11:30am at 17th and California as well as a presence at the later rally and vigil.

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NOW IS NOT THE TIME TO COMPROMISE

SEIZE THE TIME!

The uprisings in Europe, then North Africa and the Mideast, and in the United States are not a coincidence. They are, at least in part, a common rebellion against a common enemy that threatens to make working people pay for its plunder and failures: the neo-liberal policies of unregulated capitalism, croney government, and phoney “banking”. We believe the best of what workers have spoken so far is not reforming a crippled and crippling capitalist system, but for the working class to step in as replacements for bundling bankers and bungling politicians.
WE HAVE A CHOICE TO MAKE: WE CAN LET OUR MOVEMENT BE CHANNELED TO WEAK REFORM AND ELECTORAL MEASURES OR WE CAN PUSH ONWARD NOT JUST FOR WORKERS’ RIGHTS IN THE OLD SYSTEM BUT FOR WORKERS’ POWER to control our own work, our wealth, our well being. Early in the last century the newpaper The Messenger, founded by A. Philip Randolph, called for mass strikes and workers’ control as “the antidote for capitalist poisons”.
LET THE COMMITMENT OF THE 21st CENTURY BE A RE-COMMITMENT TO THIS DREAM, not a fallback to the timid policies and institutions that helped get us in this mess.
LET THE CALL !Si se puede! – We can do it! not be an excuse to hand our power over to a politician and his bosses but to actually do it ourselves, from cleaning up the BP disaster to seizing the statehouse in Madison to the occupation of factories in Argentina to dealing with the meltdown in Japan.
SUPPORT GRASSROOTS CALLS FOR GREATER, NOT LESS, WORKERS CONTROL!

Stand with The Messenger as they saw the critical distinction between the “smug, sleek” old leaders “who swerve, compromise and equivocate for soft berths, fat salaries and slothful ease” versus those committed to the “principle” of “to the workers belongs the world.”

THE CLASS WAR CAN NO LONGER BE ONE SIDED!

Gather at 11 under the red and black flag, behind the IWW banners to participate in the anti-capitalist contingent.

Endorsed by the Denver Anarchist Black Cross and Queen City Antifa

Some pictures from anti-capitalist actions at London anti-cuts demo March 26th:

Police responded at 11:34 a.m. Saturday to a US Bank branch at 4930 Colorado Blvd. after a man demanded money through the drive-through window. A representative for the Denver Police Department didn’t know whether the suspect was armed or how he was able to get the money.

Statistics were not immediately available, but police said robberies through drive-through windows are uncommon.

Below is from the Denver Post, slightly edited to reduce misinformation:

Aurora officials convened a meeting of volunteers, police and the U.S. Department of Justice office that helps prevent racial tensions in the wake of recent shootings in which four people have been killed by police and two others wounded by police bullets.

Barbara Shannon-Banister, chief of the city’s community-relations division, said her office has not heard reports of unrest from the community and that Monday’s meeting was standard procedure after a major incident such as an officer-involved shooting.

Among those in attendance were members of the city’s Key Community Response Team, a group of volunteers who meet regularly and respond in times of civil disorder, as well as the city’s human-relations commission and representatives of the local faith community.

Also participating was a representative of the Department of Justice’s Community Relations Service, which is described on its website as the department’s “peacekeeper” for community conflict and tension arising from differences of race, color and national origin.

Shannon-Banister said the representative is a regular attendee of such meetings and a member of the Key Community Response Team.

Aurora officers have killed four individuals since Feb 10, three of them in the past week. The first two murdered individuals were both Latino. Police and the coroner’s office have not released the identities of the two others killed in the most recent shootings.

Monday’s meeting was called to discuss Sunday’s incident, in which an officer shot at three men suspected of trying to steal a car in an auto-storage lot. One of the men died. The conditions of the two others were not available Tuesday.

Authorities are investigating whether one of the suspects involved hit the officer with a truck before he fired his gun.

Leon Kelly, executive director of Open Door Youth Gang Services and a member of the Key Community Response Team, said he is using the shootings as teachable moments.

“I’ve been telling the youngsters I work with, ‘Do not put yourself in that position,’ ” Kelly said.

In the Feb. 10 incident, an undercover officer shot and killed a man who was under surveillance for suspicion of selling drugs. Police said Richard Arreola, 25, was armed when he approached the officer’s car. They later found a long black rifle and a large revolver.

Two incidents last week involved men who had taken hostages. Daniel Garcia threatened a woman with a gun on March 14, then took her hostage in a car. He was killed after police heard gunfire from the vehicle.

Friday’s shooting occurred after a man took a family of four hostage for several hours, telling police he would “shoot it up” with them, according to police. The man, whom authorities have not identified, exited the apartment with a handgun.