In a lawsuit filed in Pueblo District Court last month, Azar claims the Alabama-based Slocumb Law Firm is creating deceptive advertisements on Google that make customers believe they’re calling Franklin D. Azar & Associates when they are, in fact, calling the out-of-state firm, which is headed by Alabama attorney Michael Slocumb and has just one lawyer in Colorado.
Ortiz, 41, is a fugitive. Hall has been moved from custody in Pueblo to federal custody in Denver.
The indictment alleges that the Ace gang is a criminal organization whose members and associates engaged in narcotics distribution and acts of violence, including acts involving murder.
It goes on to allege that the gang, including its leadership, membership, and associates, constituted an enterprise . engaged in racketeering activity, namely, acts involving murder in violation of Colorado law and offenses involving the felonious manufacture, importation, receiving, concealment, buying, selling, and otherwise dealing in controlled substances.
Hall s attorney and a prosecutor told a judge Tuesday that they estimate Hall s federal trial would last 10 days. The case is in a very early stage and no trial date has been set.
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DENVER An admitted drug dealer who tried to flee from Pueblo police with $60,000 of methamphetamine now is facing a long term in federal prison.
James Anthony Lovato pleaded guilty Monday to possessing the drug with the intent of distributing it as a dealer.
He entered the plea in Denver at the U.S. District Court for Colorado.
Judge R. Brooke Jackson said sentencing guidelines recommend a prison term of more than 21 years.
A court filing states that Lovato, 36, is a career offender as defined by federal law who was convicted in Pueblo District Court in 2003 of attempted robbery and in 2014 of menacing.
DENVER A man authorities believe is an accessory in three homicides being investigated in the San Luis Valley is being kept in federal custody in Denver for the foreseeable future.
Francisco Ramirez did not seek to be released on bond during a hearing Tuesday in Denver at the U.S. District Court for Colorado.
Ramirez, 38, has not been charged with murder or as an accessory. The investigation by local and state authorities is ongoing.
The affidavit was for a warrant to arrest Ramirez for a federal gun crime in Pueblo: having a gun in in furtherance of drug trafficking.
That charge stemmed from a search of a truck he was in on Dec. 11 in Pueblo after investigators learned he was in the city. The affidavit states Pueblo police, agents of the ATF and Colorado Bureau of Investigation found a handgun and two loaded magazines, plus suspected heroin and methamphetamine with a street value of $49,000.