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Police that busted up a sex ring of over 50 prostitutes in Denver, Colorado, say that minors were among those being pimped out.

Hong Tang, 28, and Todd Allen Powell, 44, are alleged to have run an operation since 2005 that included “50 female prostitutes, including children,” and made more than $1 million annually, The Denver Post reported Monday.

Police reportedly declined to say exactly how young the children involved were, saying they wanted to keep that information private while the prosecution’s case was being developed.

A dog in Colorado was attacked and killed by a mountain lion, but not in the family’s backyard. The precocious cat actually snuck inside the house.

A mountain lion crept through an open door into a house outside Denver, snatched a Labrador retriever from a bedroom where two people were sleeping and left the dog’s dead body outside, wildlife managers said Tuesday.

No one else was hurt in the home about 14 miles southwest of Denver.

Wildlife officials later trapped the 130-pound male cat using the dog’s body as bait and fatally shot it.

Colorado Division of Wildlife spokesman Tyler Baskfield said the cat entered the house through open French doors early Monday and fled with the Labrador after the owners woke up.

Yet another reason why parents might want to consider getting their kids a cell phone — one may have prevented a child from being abducted.

Mohammed Al Hamdani, 39, was taken into custody after an 11-year-old girl snapped a photo of a man with her cell phone who was allegedly trying to abduct her at Bible Park in southeast Denver.

It was unclear from a Denver Police Department press release whether the photo led to the arrest of the man.

The 11-year-old girl told police a man approached her at the park and asked her to get in his car, MyFOXColorado.com reported.

She said no, snapped a picture of the man with her cell phone and ran away from him, according to the TV station.

An Aurora, Colorado high school student with cerebral palsy is being hit with a number of charges because he allegedly ran over a girl’s feet with his wheelchair. The story doesn’t say if the girl suffered anything more than minor injuries — charging him with assault and battery seems a little extreme, doesn’t it?

Seventeen-year-old Joshua Martinez is accused of assault and battery and reckless endangerment for running over a girl’s toes in the hall.

The female student told the school nurse Martinez ran over her foot and her family wants to press charges.

Martinez says he does not remember the incident.

Witnesses told Aurora Police that Martinez drives his wheelchair very fast and bumps into people. He also sometimes rides up on two wheels.

Out of all the worries we have, we never thought we would have to be paranoid about our son participating in a game of tug-of-war.

Henry Barrett and Mitch Helfer both had their right hands partially severed in the tug-of-war in October.

Barrett said he remembered hearing a “snap” and realizing almost immediately his right hand was bleeding and numb.

“It turned the muscles into hamburgers and severed 90 percent of the nerves. What wasn’t severed was severely traumatized. Three bones were snapped clean in half,” said Barrett.

Brian, look. You’re a young guy, probably just out of college, so really, it’s not too late to make a career change. Because I don’t think working with children is quite your thing.

A Delta high school English teacher punished a student who was late for class by ordering him to do push-ups and sit-ups and letting other students hit him when he failed to complete the exercise, police said Monday.

Brian Havel, 22, faces charges of child abuse in the case, which allegedly happened March 14, said Delta Police interim Chief Roger Christian. He said police began investigating after the student, who is 15 or 16-years-old, told his parents what happened.

Christian said Havel demanded that the student do a certain amount of push-ups or sit-ups in a set amount of time when he arrived late for class. Christian said the student either refused to do the exercise or didn’t finish in time.

Police were called to an El Paso County, Colorado hospital Friday night after a 2-month-old infant was pronounced dead and who appeared to have suffered some sort of injury:

Police were called to Memorial Hospital about 6:30 p.m. Friday, where Preston James Cheever was unconscious and not breathing, police said.

The baby’s mother drove part of the way to the hospital from a home in the 5900 block of Bestview Way, but an ambulance met her and took the child to the hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

Police on Friday said the infant had injuries, but did not know what caused them.

The county coroner has determined that little Preston died from blunt force trauma to the head.

A woman in Highlands Ranch, Colorado has been arrested for prostitution after she made sexual advances at an undercover officer in her home — with her two young kids next door:

While the undercover officer was with [Sheri Sims, 39,] her two youngest children, ages 13 and 16, were in next room, said investigators in court papers filed in Douglas County.

Her third child, 19, was downstairs, said authorities.

The documents claim that Sims made “contact that went beyond (an) appropriate massage.”

After the Highlands Ranch mother disrobed and began touching the genitals of the naked undercover detective, he gave fellow officers an arrest signal, according to the documents.

The investigation was conducted by the Douglas County Sheriff Department’s Special Investigations Unit, Pattern Crimes Unit and patrol division.

OK, anyone else find it odd that the investigation went so far that the detective was naked and got a little rubdown in the crotchal area?? That’s not how it works on Cops.

Couldn’t this “mother” have walked a few more steps and brought the infant inside? Colorado has a “safe haven” law, where you can surrender your to a hospital or fire station within 72 hours of birth without prosecution.

Denver Police were looking for the person Wednesday who left a newborn girl in a basket outside of a hospital. The baby died.

Police say they found the body at Presbyterian/St. Luke’s Medical Center located at 19th and Franklin. it happened at about 8:00 p.m. Tuesday.

Police say someone pressed an emergency call button outside the facility. A security guard went to check, and found the newborn girl laying in a basket.

The guard took the baby inside, where she was pronounced dead.

Investigators said they did not know if the baby was already dead when she was left outside of the hospital, or if she died afterward.

Investigators are treating this case as a murder. They ask anyone who may know something or who may have seen who left the baby to call them.

Now how come this case is being considered a murder, but the one where the mother dumped her baby in a garbage can isn’t?

If you believe in bad karma, we can’t think of a better way to bring it on than ripping off a couple Girl Scouts. We bet these jerks kick puppies for fun, too.

A pair of con artists ripped off a Girl Scout group when they exchanged a fake $100 bill for cookies, police said.

The unknown couple handed over the bill Friday night at a supermarket, telling the girls it had been washed when asked about why it looked so strange.

“It felt and looked wrong and it was a quarter of an inch shorter than a $1 bill,” said Jil Hennessey-Seabolt, the cookie director for Junior Girl Scouts Troop 2121. Hennessey-Seabolt said the Girl Scouts gave the couple $93.50 in change after the purchase.