The Denver City Council voted and overturned a voter-approved ordinance which allowed for the impoundment of vehicles of any unlicensed driver.   A 9-1 vote is what repealed the law known as Initiative 100.   Councilman Paul Lopez led the charge to repeal I-100. ” “It’s been a nightmare for the city. It’s been a legal nightmare for the city. You had innocent people getting caught up in this. The collateral...

Commerce City – The ring used tour buses to smuggle marijuana into the country from Mexico.  Over 45,000 pounds were transported over the course of 11 months according to the Jackson County District Attorney’s Office.   The investigation began May of 2010.  A grand jury returned a 93-count indictment  naming 23 suspects on June 3rd.   In order to smuggle the marijuana, the bricks were compressed and then hidden...

Denver – Deported from the United States, Ismael Gonzalez-Arenas, reentered the country and has been sentenced to life in federal prison.   Gonzalez-Arenas was sentenced life plus 60 months by Judge Robert E. Blackburn.   Found guilty in September of charges which include: unlawful transport of firearms, manufacturing controlled substance, drugs/violent crime/machine gun, and reentry of deported aliens.   The case was...

A 51 year-old Libyan man was found and arrested as part of a nationwide campaign by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) that has led to the arrest of 2,400 convicted criminal aliens and immigration fugitives. In Denver there were 29 arrests, Aurora-13, Commerce City-7, and 29 others across the state of Colorado.   The 51 year-old Libyan man had previously been convicted of 1st degree sexual assault against a child and domestic...

Everybody makes mistakes, but it’s who you have standing next to you, in court, fighting for your rights, that really makes the difference. I’ve been a federal prosecutor, I’ve been a state prosecutor. The type of experience that few other attorneys have had. I can look at your case, through the eyes of a prosecutor, through the eyes of a police officer. I can tell you what they’re thinking. I can tell you about...

Young Su Kim, a former Rocky Mountain Instrument (RMI) Worker was recently charged with one  count of “Willful export of defense articles without a license” after a  years long investigation into the company’s outsourcing practices.   If convicted, Kim could face up to 10 years in prison and fine of up to $1 Million.  $36,000, the value of property Kim is alleged to have acquired as a result of the crime, is also...