Category: Cases

GOLDEN, Colo. (Feb. 5, 2025) – A Jefferson County jury has found Jeremy Smith not guilty in the shooting death of Adam Fresquez at the Edgewater Public Market in May 2023. After six days of trial, the jury began deliberating just after 3 pm on Tuesday.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Feb. 3, 2025) – Imagine Kay Ewer was sentenced on Friday to four years in prison, followed by ten years to life on Sex Offender Intensive Supervision Probation, for sexually assaulting a Brady Exploration School student. Ewer worked as a paraprofessional in the special needs classrooms and was the assigned para for the sixteen-year-old victim. In November, Ewer pled guilty to two charges, and the parties agreed to a stipulated four years in prison and an indeterminate probation sentence of at least 10 years, up to lifetime probation.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Jan. 22, 2025) – District Attorney Alexis King announced today that Yvonne “Missy” Woods has been charged with 102 counts related to 58 instances of alleged criminal misconduct committed between 2008 and 2023, during her career as a Forensic Laboratory Scientist at the Colorado Bureau of Investigation (CBI). Woods was employed by CBI from January 1994 to November 2023, during which she worked at two laboratory locations in Jefferson County within the First Judicial District.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Jan. 7, 2025) – Robert Joel Gordanier has pleaded guilty to two charges for the crimes he committed between July 2019 and November 2023, while Gordanier served as Mayor, Police Chief, and Fire Chief of the Town of Lakeside.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Nov.14, 2024) – District Attorney Alexis King announced today that Stephen Robert Geer has been charged with five counts for causing the crash that killed Golden Police Officer Dunn and left three others injured, including Golden Police Officer Grusing.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Oct. 24, 2024) – The First Judicial District will host another Fresh Start warrant forgiveness event at the Jefferson County Administration and Courts Facility in Golden on Saturday, November 2, from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Oct. 18, 2024) – Glenn Braden was sentenced to eight years to life in prison yesterday for his string of sexual crimes in Jeffco parks last year. Between Apr. 3, 2023, and Aug. 8, 2023, 11 female hikers were confronted by Braden along trails in Flying J Ranch Park, Alderfer/Three Sisters Park, and Genesee Mountain Park in Jefferson County. In August, Braden pled guilty to attempted sexual assault, unlawful sexual contact and indecent exposure, and as a result, faced a term of between four to twelve years, up to life in prison.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Oct. 10, 2024) – Andre Deshawn Jones was sentenced today to 32 years in prison for the attempted murder of Wheat Ridge Police Officer Allan Fischer in April 2022 and three years in prison for the assault on a Jefferson County Sheriff’s Deputy while in custody in 2023. Officer Fischer was responding to a report of a U-Haul truck that had crashed into a fence when he was attacked by Jones and stabbed in the neck, chest and back.

GOLDEN, Colo. (Sep.17, 2024) – District Attorney Alexis King announced today that Brent John Metz has been charged with Second Degree Assault, Menacing, and Illegal Discharge of a Firearm for menacing a fifteen-year-old and seriously injuring a seventeen-year-old last week.