Denver’s website hacked twice in one week

The city and county of Denver website was pulled down Monday night after it was hacked, the second such attack in a week.

Eric Brown, a spokesman for the mayor’s office, said he didn’t know what time the site was breached and when it might be restored.

Starting about 8 a.m. Thursday, Denvergov.org was down for six hours after it was hacked. Brown said he did not know whether the cases were related.

Denver police are investigating both attacks.

The hacker’s page was pulled down before 9 p.m., and the city put up a page that said, “The City and County of Denver’s website is undergoing maintenance.”

The hacker’s green-and-black page that replaced the city’s home page proclaimed “VIRuS—Ra3ch was here,” and included a warning in code: “W3 C4n’t H4ck A4y Thing ~ But W3 H4ck Wh4t W3 W4nt & your Security Information Has Been Passed Off,” as well as an e-mail address and website.

In Colorado, computer crime, including hacking, is a misdemeanor when damage is valued at $500 or less but can be a felony if the damage is more severe.

Bicyclist steals cash from local Boulder coffee shop

Boulder police are looking for a male mountain bicyclist with shaved legs who stole money from a local coffee shop.

The theft happened at about 4:35 Sunday at a shop in the 2600 block of Broadway, Boulder police said in a media release.

An employee confronted a stranger in the manager’s office and the man fled, riding a red, full suspension mountain bike west on Alpine Avenue, police said. The bicyclist swiped cash from a drawer in the office.

Pissed-off worker kills bosses in Boulder

A disgruntled employee of a Boulder flooring and fireplace store confronted the company’s owners Monday and shot them several times before apparently killing himself, Boulder Police said today.

Police Chief Mark Beckner said Robert Montgomery is the suspect in the shooting deaths of Boulder Stove and Flooring owners Staci and Sean Griffin. Montgomery worked at the business as a hearth-products specialist.

The Griffins and Montgomery were found dead in the back of the store shortly after 11 a.m. The Griffins suffered several gunshot wounds while Montgomery had one gunshot wound, Beckner said.

Police found a Smith & Wesson handgun in Montgomery’s right hand and 13 spent shellcasings. There was also one live round in Boulthe weapon’s chamber, Beckner said.

A journal found at Montgomery’s residence indicated he was angry at a change in sales compensation at the business.

A friend of Montgomery’s, who has known him since the 1980s, described him as even-tempered and slow to anger but said he was upset about work.

Co-worker Jason Arthur said the change in the company’s compensation involved requiring employees to reach sales goals in order to earn bonuses.

Colorado Springs ICE office attacked

Anonymous communique:

The entrance to an undisclosed/pseudo-secret ICE office in downtown Colorado Springs was attacked Saturday night.

The office, ironically, is located within a bank building.

No Deportations! No Borders!

Armed trio takeover and rob Northglenn bank

Three men in their late teens or 20s used a “take-over style” method to rob the Bank of the West branch at 10393 Huron St. in Northglenn Monday morning, the FBI said today.

The robbery happened at 11:22 a.m., police said.

At least one of the robbers, who were described as black, was armed with a pistol.

Boulder vandals tracked via paint trail

A trail of paint led to the arrest of two men who allegedly splashed white paint on seven vehicles in Boulder early today.

Arrested were Boulder residents Jarrad McKay, 21, and Matthew Baker, 20, according to the Boulder Police Department.

They are being held for investigation of criminal mischief and theft.

According to investigators, a passer-by discovered a car covered with paint around 1 a.m. in the area of 17th Street and Aurora Avenue.

When Boulder officers arrived, they found five vehicles in an alley and two vehicles on the street splattered with white paint.

Police were able to follow a trail of paint to the home of one of the suspects in the 800 block of 17th Street.

There they contacted McKay and Baker, who had tell-tale signs of white paint on them, said police.

Both admitted they were involved in the vandalism and said they had stolen the paint from University Hill Elementary School, according to officers.

Marijuana dispensary robbed

Two men are on the run after a robbery at a medical marijuana dispensary in Rollinsville, in Gilpin County, this morning, police said.

The robbery happened around 7:45 a.m. at 300 Patricia Road near Highway 119. A witness told police one of the suspects may have had a gun.

During the robbery, the two residents at the property fled . Police have located them.

Deputies are investigating the robbery, and no other details are available at this time.

Boulder homeless protest camping ban

BOULDER — About 20 homeless people and some homeless advocates spent Saturday night on the lawn next to the Boulder Municipal Building to decry a camping ban. They say the city ordinance makes it a crime to be homeless.

“The goal of the sleep-in is to raise awareness among people who think we just go away in the summer,” homeless protester Michael Fitzgerald told the Boulder Daily Camera. “The shelters close, but we’re still here.”

Camping is defined as sleeping outside with shelter, even just a sleeping bag. Violators can be fined $100 or sentenced to community service.

One dozen Boulder banks get epoxied

Anonymous communique:

A dozen or so banks were attacked this weekend in the place righteously ignorant liberals and slavishly resentful conservatives call Boulder. The method of attack: really strong glue, applied generously to card readers and other vulnerabilities. As the Gulf bleeds out yet another death knell for marine life on this planet, as imperial wars wage on louder than ever, and as capitalism attempts to recover and tighten its grip, we recognize that it is these institutions which drive the destruction and dispossession as much as any other, while somehow doing so with a benign acceptance in this and many communities. As long as there are banks, anarchists will attack them. More importantly, as individuals continue to fight back against their oppressors in Oaxaca, in Thailand, Kyrgistan, and everywhere else with revitlazed rigor, and as individuals here in the occupied territories of Turtle Island begin to show the world what we are really capable of, we look forward to the day when our ravenous love of freedom and mutual aid, our tireless drive to create space for alternate social relations based upon equality, justice, consciousness, and horizontality; we look forward to the day when all these things present uneqiuvocally the answer to the question, “What do we do… when we’ve glued everything?”

With Love and Adhesive,

– MILIEU, or Marauding Illegalists for Liberatory Industrial Epoxy Usage

Portfolio Bandit taken captive

A man suspected of being the FBI’s “Portfolio Bandit” bank robber was arrested Thursday afternoon at an apartment in the 7500 block of North Broadway in Adams County.

Eric R. Dodd is accused of robbing 13 banks in the metro area since December 2008, often removing a note demanding cash from a portfolio. In some robberies he indicated he had a weapon, but one was never seen.

Dodd’s criminal record in the metro area includes several traffic offenses dating back to 1995, records show.