Longmont – A man sentenced in the death of his son in 2006 was sentenced Monday to three years in community corrections in a separate traffic case.
Gil Smith, of Longmont still could face 12 years behind bars for pleading guilty in the traffic case, which violates his probation in the earlier case.
Smith’s 2-year-old son, Jay, was presumed drowned after he fell from an inflatable raft as it was towed behind the family’s boat in July 2006 on Carter Lake near Loveland. Smith was sentenced in January to 60 days in jail and five years of probation after pleading guilty to child abuse resulting in death.
On April 13, Longmont police arrested Smith after a traffic accident. Witnesses said Smith’s truck ran into the back of a van that had stopped for a red light.
In a plea deal, Smith pleaded guilty to driving under the influence and menacing with a deadly weapon. Boulder County prosecutors dropped charges of second-degree assault on a police officer, resisting arrest, obstructing a police officer and careless driving.
ENGLEWOOD
FBI: Man used own check to rob bank
The FBI is looking for a bank robber who used his own check with his name scratched out on which to write the demand note he gave to the teller.
Forest Kelly Bissonnette, 27, was charged with bank robbery, and a federal warrant was issued for his arrest Friday.
The robber walked into the Bank of the West in Englewood on Sept. 5 and approached the teller with a demand note written on a bank check.
Nearly $5,000 was taken during the robbery.
DENVER
Lawyer sues Denver, says job offer pulled
A Boulder County attorney is suing the city of Denver after being offered a job, then having the offer rescinded.
Cheryl Sicotte, a Boulder assistant county attorney, is accusing Denver officials of pulling the offer after an internal applicant complained, according to a lawsuit filed last week.
“They pulled the rug from under her after giving her the job,” said Sicotte’s attorney Joel Maguire, who declined to have her comment.
Kathy Maloney, spokeswoman for Denver’s Career Service Authority, declined comment, citing ongoing litigation in the case.
The job was posted in May 2006 for a section supervisor at the Human Services Section Child Support Enforcement Unit.
The lawsuit asks for unspecified damages and attorney fees.
DENVER
Panel will discuss voting procedures
Denver election officials plan to convene an advisory committee to study which voting model should be used for the primary and general elections next year.
Denver residents voted at large vote centers, rather than traditional precincts, for the first time last year.
Trouble with computers that signed in voters caused long lines in 2006 and led to a successful campaign to replace the Denver Election Commission with a single, elected clerk and recorder.
The advisory committee will examine whether the vote-center model, or another model, will be the best option for 2008.
The committee will meet every Tuesday, starting today, at 2 p.m. through Oct. 9 in the Wellington E. Webb Municipal Office Building.
BOULDER
Agreement restores council race debate
A canceled debate among City Council candidates was reinstated under a deal announced Monday.
The city initially planned to charge the League of Women Voters $850 to air the forum, then agreed to waive that fee if the league would not take a position on ballot initiatives, in addition to not endorsing candidates. The league balked at that condition and canceled the forum.
Under the new deal, the league won’t take a position on any ballot issues except the charter amendment to raise the pay for future council members from $679 a month to $1,000 monthly.
The forum will air on Boulder’s Municipal Channel 8 regularly and be available at .
DENVER
Inmate gets 80 years for 1994 sex assault
A man who kidnapped and sexually assaulted a woman more than a decade ago received the maximum sentence Monday of 80 years in prison.
Benjamin Anderson, 32, pleaded guilty to first-degree sex assault and second-degree kidnapping in June for the attack that happened 13 years ago. He was linked to this assault with DNA while serving time for another sex assault.
District Judge Catherine Lemon sentenced Anderson to 48 years for the assault and 32 years for the kidnapping to run consecutively.
DENVER
Remains discovered along Cherry Creek
Police are investigating the discovery of skeletal remains along Cherry Creek, found in thick brush just south of the Cherry Creek Shopping Center.
About 5 p.m. Monday, a hiker found the badly decomposed body on the south side of the creek, along the opposite bank of the popular Cherry Creek bike path.
The body was in such bad condition, police spokesman Sonny Jackson said, that officers at the scene were unable to determine whether it was that of a man or a woman.
