Shannon Kent is the elected coroner for Lake County who recently agreed to cease operations of his six funeral home businesses in Colorado including this one in Gypsum and is facing at least one civil lawsuit and being investigated for possible violations of state mortuary codes.
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Criminal charges against Lake County’s embattled coroner, Shannon Kent, can proceed within Colorado’s 5th Judicial District, despite Kent’s concerns he cannot receive a fair trial because of bad blood between himself and District Attorney Bruce Brown, the Colorado Supreme Court ruled this December. overturns an earlier decision by Lake County District Court Judge Catherine J. Cheroutes. She ordered charges against Kent to be handled by a special prosecutor, noting “there is something personal about the case” for Brown, the prosecutor for Clear Creek, Eagle, Lake and Summit counties since 2012.
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Jesse Robert Flores, 20, of Gypsum, turned himself in early Tuesday morning for an arrest warrant in Eagle County alleging he wrote a fraudulent $30,000 check to steal a vehicle from its owner. While he has yet to be formally charged in the Eagle County case, authorities allege that Flores has written numerous fraudulent checks, totaling $728,000, in recent months to steal vehicles from their owners in Eagle, Summit, Routt, Mesa, Chaffee, Grand and Garfield counties.
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EAGLE Jesse Robert Flores, 20, appeared in Eagle County Court Tuesday after turning himself in for an arrest warrant alleging that he wrote a fraudulent check for $30,000 to steal a used Jeep Wrangler from its owner.
Eric Nastri.
EAGLE Eric Nastri on Wednesday was sentenced to 30 days in jail and ordered to pay $156,833 restitution to the town of Vail for his role in a scheme that prosecutors say stole nearly $855,000 from the town from 2012 to 2018.
Prosecutors alleged that Nastri, 55, of Denver, was a friend and accomplice who helped the town’s former IT director, Ron Braden, circumvent the town’s normal bidding and contracting processes to steal the money, allowing Braden to steer contracts for IT work to companies Nastri owned or worked for.
Nastri would keep 12.91% of the money sent to his companies and send the rest of the money to Colorado Technology Convergence, a company that Braden owned. Braden would would hire contractors to complete the IT work for the town, but also keep money for himself in the process, prosecutors alleged.
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Jesse Robert Flores, 20, of Gypsum, turned himself in Tuesday, Dec. 15, for an arrest warrant in Eagle County alleging he wrote a fraudulent $30,000 check to steal a vehicle from its owner. Authorities allege that Flores has written numerous fraudulent checks, totaling $728,000, in recent months to steal vehicles from their owners in Eagle, Summit, Routt, Mesa, Chaffee, Grand and Garfield counties.
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EAGLE Jesse Robert Flores, 20, appeared in Eagle County Court on Tuesday, Dec. 15, after turning himself in for an arrest warrant alleging that he wrote a fraudulent check for $30,000 to steal a used Jeep Wrangler from its owner.