Peter VanVolkinburg
First off: Do you see this guy with a handcuff hanging off his right arm?
If so, Denver police are looking for Peter VanVolkinburg because they say he took off in the middle of an arrest yesterday and broke an officer’s hand.
About 10 a.m., the officer spottted a vehicle wanted in a hit and run accident near 29th and Downing streets.
The officer pulled the car over and contacted the driver.
While placing handcuffs on VanVolkinburg, he got away and was last seen with the cuff hanging off his right wrist.
Anyone with information is asked to call the Denver police or Crime Stoppers at 720-913-STOP.
A week after his first-degree murder conviction, Willie Clark writes to the Denver Post and proclaims his innocence.
Willie Clark, 28, was convicted of carrying out a hit on witness Kalonniann Clark (no relation), who was set to testify in an attempted murder case against his gang boss, Brian Kenneth Hicks.
The jury foreman said they decided Willie Clark was guilty after listening to a series of slang-filled phone calls between Willie Clark and Hicks that were recorded from the Denver County jail.
But Willie Clark says the jurors got the meaning of the recordings wrong and that prosecutors only used certain clips to make him sound guilty.
“Why wouldn’t they play the entire calls of those they picked?” Clark wrote in his letter to me. “They continued to stress context and how you have to listen to what’s said before and after the clips they placed in order to comprehend the topics. But they forced the jurors into a bad situation and made them judge me on those clips. How is that fair?”
Willie Clark intends to appeal his conviction to the Colorado Court of Appeals. He is serving life plus 420 years for the murder and another life sentence plus 1,152 years for the murder of Denver Broncos player Darrent Williams.
“(The prosecutor) stated that I am incapable of showing remorse which is inaccurate,” Willie Clark wrote. “I had no involvement so I have nothing to be remorseful about.”
And finally, how many of you predicted that Dr. Conrad Murray would be found guilty of involuntary manslaughter for the death of Michael Jackson?
I was shocked when the judge ordered Murray into custody without bail pending his sentencing hearing because Murray had been out of custody for the entire trial.
The judge called Murray a public safety risk and cited the nature of the case as a reason to throw him in the slammer.
Murray faces up to four years in prison at his Nov. 29 sentencing, but could also get probation. What do you think will happen?