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GOLDEN, Colo. (Mar. 17, 2026) – Bradley Wilson has been sentenced to six years in the Department of Corrections, followed by a mandatory three-year term of parole, after pleading guilty in the attempted abduction of a nine-year-old girl at a Lakewood grocery store in June 2025.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Mar. 11, 2026) – District Attorney Alexis King has announced that the Grand Jury for Jefferson and Gilpin counties has returned a two-count indictment against Brandon David Mumma in the death investigation of thirty-four-year-old Denver resident Jax Gratton. Mumma, who is believed to be the last known individual to be with Gratton, faces one count of Tampering with a Deceased Human Body (F3) and Tampering with Evidence (F6).

GOLDEN, Colo. (Mar. 9, 2026) – Today, Rubel Tim Martinez was sentenced to an indeterminate term of imprisonment of at least 18 years and up to life in the Department of Corrections. The Court also imposed an indeterminate period of parole of at least 20 years and up to life, pursuant to C.R.S. 18-1.3-1004(2)(a).

GOLDEN, Colo. (Mar. 6, 2026) – This week, the final two individuals were sentenced in connection with the April 2024 murder of 14-year-old Francisco “Cisco” Laqui in Lakewood.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Mar. 2, 2026) – John David Bormolini has been sentenced to six years in the Department of Corrections for a high-speed reckless driving crash that killed Wheat Ridge business owner Nate Oettinger and critically injured his passenger, Dennis Dillman.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Feb. 23, 2026) – Callum Heskett pleaded guilty and was sentenced today to three years of supervised probation and ordered to pay at least $16,700 in restitution for falsely reporting a stabbing that prompted a large-scale law enforcement response and manhunt in August 2025.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Feb. 13, 2026) – Daniel Ryan Clark was sentenced this week to ten years in the Colorado Department of Corrections after pleading guilty to Tampering with a Deceased Human Body. The parties stipulated to the ten-year sentence. By statute, the offense carries a sentencing range of four to twelve years in prison.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Feb. 5, 2026) – Today, Laura Prats was sentenced to eleven years in the Department of Corrections for her role in the death of fifty-eight-year-old Sheryl Seitz. Prats previously pleaded guilty to Negligent Death of an At-Risk Person. Her co-defendant, Brian Seitz, was sentenced to ten years in prison in December of last year.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Feb. 3, 2026) – Last week, the second juvenile responsible for the 2022 fire at the Tiffany Square Apartments in Lakewood, which killed two people and injured many others, pled guilty and was sentenced to the maximum sentence of seven years in the Colorado Department of Human Services Division of Youth Services (DYS), bringing a lengthy court process to a close.