Denver – Bustaman Kartabrata (age 59) was charged by the Denver District Attorney’s office with three counts of murder in the first degree (F1), one count of felony menacing (F5) and one count of assault in the third degree (M1) for the shooting death of three family members including one eleven-year-old girl. On May 23,…

DENVER—Prosecutors with the Denver District Attorney’s office today announced that they have charged Cynthia Marie McKee (age 55) with theft (F4). Beginning in December 2013 and over a five-year period, as Treasurer of the Parent Teacher Student Organization for the Denver School of the Arts, McKee allegedly wrote scores of checks to herself, members of…

DENVER—Prosecutors with the Denver District Attorney’s office today announced that Jerome Lucas (age 34) was charged with two counts of sexual assault (F2 and F3), one count of second degree kidnapping (F2), one count of first degree burglary (F2), and one count of assault in the second degree (F4). After returning from the gym on…

DENVER—The Denver District Attorney’s Office has filed charges against Brianna Casias (age 19) for robbing or attempting to rob eight Denver-area banks. Casias was known as the “Glamour Shot Bandit,” for the flamboyant disguises she wore to conceal her identity. During each alleged robbery attempt, Casias never spoke but handed the bank teller a hand-written…

DENVER—Ryan Ashland (age 41) was charged by the Denver District Attorney’s office with two counts of murder in the first degree (F1) for an attack involving four victims at PT’s Showclub at 1601 W. Evans Avenue in Denver last month. Ashland is also charged with two counts of criminal attempt to commit murder in the…

DENVER—Prosecutors with the Denver District Attorney’s office today announced that Stephen Swett (age 24) was recently charged with two counts of cruelty to animals (M1) for abusing a puppy, most recently known as “Kayle.” “By charging Stephen Swett with cruelty to animals, we are giving this puppy a voice and saying as loudly as possible,…

DENVER—Denver District Attorney Beth McCann today announced that Charles Bisonette (age 24) was sentenced to serve a 30-year to life sentence for forcibly raping a developmentally-disabled woman (F2) in her own home. The case went to trial in January of 2019.  Bisonette was also found guilty by a Denver jury of sexual assault with force…

DENVER—Denver District Attorney Beth McCann has filed a notice to charge a juvenile (age 17) as an adult in the shooting death of another juvenile (age 16) on April 11, 2019, in the 100 block of South Yuma Street in Denver’s Valverde neighborhood. The male juvenile defendant is alleged to have committed one count of…

DENVER—Prosecutors with the Denver District Attorney’s Office have charged Marc Claire Francis (age 58) with Sexual Assault on a Child by One in Position of Trust (F3). The assault allegedly occurred in 1996. A native of Australia, Francis has been a youth soccer coach in Colorado for the past 28 years. He coached or held…

DENVER—The Denver District Attorney’s Office announced that prosecutors today filed a charge of murder in the first degree (F1) against Brice Fitch (age 24).  Fitch is alleged to have shot and killed a man with an AR-15 rifle while he was breaking into Fitch’s vehicle. Fitch was first advised on Monday, April 22, 2019.  His…