Category: Cases

Former Police Officer Wayne Nelson Convicted 

Former law enforcement officer, Wayne Darrell Nelson has been convicted of three counts of misdemeanor unlawful sexual contact for the sexual assaults of two adult women between April 2018 and December 2020.
August 30, 2022

DA Alexis King Clears “Heroic” Officers Responding to Belmar Shooting Spree  

First Judicial District Attorney Alexis King announced today that Lakewood Police Department Agents Brianna Hagan and Ashley Ferris would not face charges for their use of force against Lyndon James McLeod.
August 22, 2022

Joseph Van Eck sentenced to 162 years to life in prison for multiple sexual assaults  

Joseph Gabriel Van Eck was sentenced by the First Judicial District Court for the sexual assaults committed between April and September 2020 on four women from a vulnerable community.
June 27, 2022

Peter Dettmer sentenced in sexual assault cases  

Peter Robert Dettmer was sentenced today by the First Judicial District Court to 28 years to life in the Department of Corrections for the sexual assaults committed between April 2014 and June 2016.
June 17, 2022

Tyler Condit sentenced in Arvada homicide  

Tyler Condit was sentenced yesterday by the First Judicial District Court to 38 years in the Department of Corrections for the murder of 22-year-old Joseph Elsey of Arvada.
June 9, 2022

Driver sentenced in Lakewood Cyclist Death    

Ryan Scott Montoya was sentenced today by the First Judicial District Court to 8 years in the Department of Corrections for the crash that killed 46-year-old cyclist Gwen Ellen Inglis.
June 8, 2022

Daniel Short sentenced in vehicular homicide  

Daniel Short was sentenced today by the First Judicial District Court to 5 years in the Department of Corrections for the crash that caused the death of 59-year-old Julia “Julie” Pacheco.
June 8, 2022

Vicente Orozco sentenced in double murder

GOLDEN, Colo. (May 9, 2022) – Vicente Enrique Orozco was sentenced on Friday by the First Judicial District Court to two consecutive life sentences for the murders of 61-year-old Stevan Sandvick and 19-year-old Ivan Rodriguez Rivera in Belmar Park in 2019.
May 9, 2022
Fresh Start

First Judicial District hosting another Fresh Start to resolve active warrants

People with active warrants for non-violent, low-level misdemeanor and traffic charges in Gilpin or Jefferson counties will once again have an opportunity to resolve their case without arrest as Colorado’s First Judicial District hosts its second Fresh Start event at the Jefferson County Probation Remington Building on Saturday, Apr. 30th, from 9:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
April 18, 2022
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