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• 92 year old woman will be sentenced in suicide kit case

  May 7, 2012 7:10 AM

  SAN DIEGO (AP) - A 92-year-old woman who sold $40 kits for people to kill themselves is being sentenced in San Diego for failing to file federal tax returns. Prosecutors recommend that Sharlotte Hydorn be ordered to pay more than $25,000 in restitution to the Internal Revenue Service Monday and... more »

• Dad of NYC subway bomb plotter gets prison time

  February 10, 2012 7:43 PM

  NEW YORK (AP) - A federal judge has sentenced the father of an admitted terrorist to 4 ½ years in prison for destroying evidence and lying to investigators. Mohammed Wali Zazi was sentenced Friday in Brooklyn for charges including conspiracy and obstruction of justice. Authorities said the former... more »

• Lafayette man sentenced in infant son's death

  August 11, 2011 9:21 PM

  BOULDER, Colo. (AP) - A Lafayette man accused of killing his infant son by shaking and throwing him has been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Joaquin Campos, 21, pleaded guilty in May to felony child abuse resulting in the death of 10-week-old Lyon Campos in October. Boulder... more »

• Arizona fugitive gets 48 years for Colo. shootout

  April 23, 2011 2:01 PM

  GRAND JUNCTION, Colo. (AP) - An inmate who escaped from an Arizona prison and was caught after a shootout with police in Colorado has been sentenced to 48 years in prison for firing at an officer. The Daily Sentinel in Grand Junction reports that Daniel Renwick was also sentenced... more »

• Serial rapist sentenced to 3 life terms

  January 22, 2011 10:39 AM

  THORNTON, Colo. (AP) - A Thornton man convicted of raping three women has been sentenced to 48 years to life in prison for each assault. The Denver Post reports that 29-year-old William Allen Maldonado will serve the sentences consecutively. An Adams County jury convicted Maldonado of three sexual assaults... more »

• Colo. woman sentenced in death of adopted son, 3

  January 15, 2011 6:48 PM

  COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) - A Colorado woman has been sentenced to six years in prison after she pleaded guilty to fatal child abuse in the death of her 3-year-old adopted son. Michelle Dosdall of Peyton was charged in the March 29 death of her son Tristan. She was... more »

• Woman sentenced for theft related to Pueblo man's murder

  December 16, 2010 1:48 PM

  We have an update on one of several suspects linked to the murder of a Pueblo man. This morning one of them got sentenced to prison. Elizabeth Abeyta pleaded guilty to felony theft and was sentenced to two and a half years in prison. The judge said Abeyta and two... more »

• Former Colorado Mormon bishop sent to prison

  September 15, 2010 8:22 AM

  A former stockbroker accused of running a $21 million Ponzi scheme from his suburban Denver home for 15 years has been sentenced to 12½ years in federal prison. Victims packed the courtroom Tuesday when U.S. District Judge Marcia Krieger sentenced Shawn Merriman. He had pleaded guilty to defrauding at... more »

• Judge weighs lawsuit against Colorado State Patrol

  September 13, 2010 8:36 AM

  A judge is weighing a lawsuit against the Colorado State Patrol that alleges a trooper's high-speed pursuit of a suspect was the reason for a crash that killed a pregnant woman's unborn child. Mesa County Judge David Bottger will determine after a four-day hearing in April whether the lawsuit... more »

• Mexican drug kingpin gets 27 years in Ariz. prison

  September 3, 2010 6:31 PM

  A Mexican man who prosecutors call the leader of a group that smuggled tons of marijuana into the U.S. has been sentenced to 27 years in prison and ordered to forfeit $4 million to the American government. Carlos Molinares Nunez, also known as "Calinche" was charged in November 2006. Authorities... more »

• Life sentence in murder over an Xbox case

  July 16, 2010 3:37 PM

  A Colorado Springs teenager was sentenced to two life sentences plus an additional 32 years after being found guilty of first degree murder and aggravated robbery in the death of a mentally handicapped man. Kyle Sebastian Stott, 19, was convicted of two charges of first degree murder, aggravated robbery... more »

• Man gets life in spy case, wife also punished

  July 16, 2010 11:46 AM

  A federal judge has sentenced a former State Department worker to life in prison without possibility of parole for spying for Cuba and sentenced the man's wife to 81 months behind bars for helping her husband steal U.S. Secrets. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton said Kendall and Gwendolyn Myers betrayed... more »

• Lindsay Lohan sentenced to jail

  July 7, 2010 8:42 AM

  Troubled actress Lindsey Lohan is headed for jail. The 24-year-old actress was sentenced Tuesday in a Beverly Hills courtroom for violating probation in connection with her DUI cases. After a shocking day in court Tuesday, Lindsay Lohan wakes up this morning facing jail time. A California judge had enough.... more »

• Man punished for disrupting flight diverted to Springs

  May 21, 2010 7:10 PM

  A Virginia man accused of disrupting a cross-country flight, leading to diversion of the plane to Colorado Springs, has been sentenced to three months in federal prison. A federal judge in Denver also ordered 47-year-old Muhammad Abu Tahir of Glen Allen, Va., Friday to pay $14,584 in restitution to AirTran... more »

• Woman sentenced to prison in Elizabeth Smart case

  May 21, 2010 1:34 PM

  A federal judge has ordered a woman who pleaded guilty to kidnapping Elizabeth Smart to spend 15 years in prison, with credit for about seven years she's already served. U.S. District Judge Dale Kimball said Friday Wanda Barzee will serve the sentence at the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, in... more »

• Thoroughbred breeder sentenced in animal cruelty case

  May 18, 2010 5:43 PM

  Thoroughbred breeder and former Wall Street executive Ernie Paragallo, who has earned more than $20 million in purses in 20 years of racing, was led away in handcuffs Tuesday after being sentenced to up to 2 years in jail and a $33,000 fine for mistreating dozens of horses on his... more »

• Former actor sentenced for Colorado assault

  April 9, 2010 9:47 AM

  Former "Family Ties" actor Brian Bonsall has been sentenced to two years of probation over a fight with a friend in Colorado last year. The 28-year-old pleaded guilty Thursday in Boulder to felony menacing and third-degree assault. The menacing charge won't appear on his record if he stays out... more »

• Chess teacher sentenced for fleeing to Belize

  March 31, 2010 10:57 AM

  A youth chess teacher who moved to Belize when he was supposed to be serving probation in Colorado as a convicted sex offender has been sentenced to 12 years to life in prison. Robert Snyder was sentenced Tuesday in Fort Collins. Snyder spent two years in jail in a pedophilia... more »

• Al-Qaida agent sentenced to 8 years in prison

  October 29, 2009 4:30 PM

  A former al-Qaida agent has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for conspiring to help a foreign terrorist organization. Ali al-Marri had faced a maximum sentence of 15 years, but U.S. District Judge Michael Mihm imposed a shorter sentence of eight years and four months Thursday. Al-Marri's... more »