Tag: Sentencing
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Colorado funeral home co-owner gets 20 years in prison on federal charges
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save DENVER • Shackled at the ankles and wrists, Jon Hallford — co-owner of the infamous Penrose Return to Nature Funeral home — appeared calm in federal court Friday morning as a Denver judge handed down a 20-year prison sentence, with three years of supervision, for one count…
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Driver sentenced to 4 years in the death of champion cyclist in Boulder
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Boulder judge Friday sentenced the woman who hit and killed 17-year-old cycling phenom Magnus White to four years in prison. District Court Judge Dea Marie Lindsey sentenced 24-year-old Yeva Smilianska on a count of vehicular homicide in connection to White’s death on the morning of July 29,…
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Lakewood woman sentenced to 18 years on child abuse charges
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save A Jefferson County District Court judge sentenced a 27-year-old woman to 18 years in prison Tuesday after severely abusing a child at her unlicensed home daycare. District Court Judge Chantel Contiguglia sentenced Mckinley Slone Hernandez on one count of child abuse — recklessly causing serious bodily…
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Weld County woman convicted of first-degree murder, arson
A Greeley woman will spend her life in prison after murdering a man and lighting his house on fire in 2021. After a two-week trial, 23-year-old Stacy Rodriguez was convicted of first-degree murder, first-degree arson, tampering with a deceased human body and two counts of second-degree burglary by a Weld County jury on Wednesday, according…
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Man sentenced after scamming elderly woman in Highlands Ranch
A 27-year-old man will spend up to six years in prison after stealing over $120,000 from an 80-year-old Highlands Ranch woman in a gold bar scheme. A 23rd Judicial District judge Victoria Klingensmith sentenced Sagar Jayeshkuma Patel of New Jersey to six years in prison on felony theft charges on Friday. He was also ordered to…
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Appeals court rules harsher sentence after appeal does not mean judge was ‘vindictive’
Colorado’s second-highest court ruled last week that a Jefferson County judge subjected a man to a harsher sentence following a successful appeal because the parole eligibility date was pushed back by multiple years, but that fact alone did not mean the judge acted “vindictively.” In 2015, the state Supreme Court noted that when a criminal…
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Northglenn man sentenced for human trafficking, sexual exploitation of a child
A man from Northglenn faces 20 years in prison and a lifetime on sex offender registration after submitting “young women” to sexual servitude, the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office said. The same man faces sentencing in a similar case in Boulder County later this month. Adams County District Court Judge Jeffrey Ruff sentenced 52-year-old William…
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Man sentenced to life in prison for murder of longtime Denver teacher
A 37-year-old man will spend life in prison after murdering a woman who worked for Denver Public Schools for more than 20 years. A Denver District Court jury found Donte Ellis guilty of first-degree murder in the death of 43-year-old Shayna Johnson Monday after a five-day trial, according to a news release from the Denver…