DENVER—25 years after Troy Fields (age 51) raped, kidnapped and burglarized his female victim, justice is served.  Today, the Denver District Attorney announced that after just one hour of deliberations, a jury found Fields guilty of sexual assault and kidnapping.  Fields remained unidentified from the February 9, 1994 offense until a DNA match from the…

DENVER—This morning, the Denver District Attorney filed charges against Bryan T. Lambert (age 39) who is alleged to have shot a high-capacity rifle in Denver’s RiNo neighborhood last Saturday.  Lambert was charged with two counts of criminal mischief (F5), two counts of using a prohibited large-capacity magazine during a crime (F6) and one count of…

DENVER—Robert Alexander Marsden (age 36) was sentenced today to serve a nine-year Denver County jail sentence in a domestic violence case (case number 18MO5426).  Marsden was found guilty of one count of assault in the third degree (M1), five counts of child abuse (M2), three counts of third degree assault on a pregnant victim (M1)…

DENVER—This afternoon, Bradley J. Marcotte (age 57) received a 54 years to life prison sentence from the Honorable Judge John W. Madden, IV for sexually assaulting three teenage girls.  In August, a jury found Marcotte guilty of using their shared Catholic faith as a catalyst for the abuse. “The abuse Bradley Marcotte committed against these…

DENVER—Denver District Attorney Beth McCann today announced that 13 individuals have been charged with violating the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act (COCCA) (F2).  An investigation that began in July 2019 resulted in law enforcement agencies executing warrants on November 7, 2019.  Multiple individuals throughout the Denver-metro area were arrested that Thursday and law enforcement seized…

DENVER—Benjamin Casillas-Rocha (age 24) was charged today with five counts of menacing (F5) for an incident on Friday, November 14, 2019, at a Denver mosque. “After a thorough investigation by the Denver Police Department’s Bias-Motivated Crimes team, there is currently no evidence that either the victims or the mosque were targeted because of their faith…

DENVER—Four years after causing the death of 23-month old Javion Johnson, DeLonta Crank was sentenced for Javion’s murder.  Judge Shelley Gilman sentenced Crank to a 40-year prison sentence on Friday, November 15, 2019.  Crank pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree (F2) in late August.  The details of this case contributed to the creation…

DENVER—Angelo Swimmer (age 42), owner of Colorado Brazilian Jiu Jitsu West was found guilty of two counts of sexual assault by a Denver jury on Friday, November 8, 2019.  The Denver District Attorney charged Swimmer in September 2018, (case number 18CR06708).  A jury found him guilty of both counts of sexual assault (submission against will)…

DENVER—With most of the defendants now in custody, the Denver District Attorney is announcing that a Denver Grand Jury indicted 24 individuals on 175 counts last month. The group is accused of conspiring to commit a multitude of crimes between February 5, 2017, and October 2019, to support their illegal drug habits.  They face charges…

DENVER—Solomon Garcia (age 37) pleaded guilty on October 24, 2019, to aggravated robbery (F3).  The Denver District Attorney announced in August that Garcia was charged with stealing a RTD bus on August 26, 2019, and then going on a 20-minute crime spree. Garcia first stopped a RTD bus at the Southbound North Federal Bus Stop…