BOULDER — A bartender at a Denver strip club that Greg Franta visited hours before police believe he died in a car crash said he was “already drunk” when he came in and was cut off after one scotch, according to court documents providing new details of the Boulder architect’s final hours alive.
Franta’s body was found March 10 at the scene of a car accident off southbound Colo. 93 that happened a month earlier. In the early-morning hours of Feb. 9, according to the Colorado State Patrol, Franta’s 2006 Honda Civic hybrid went 363 feet off the road, hit two trees and slid down a ravine, landing on its roof.
Because it was out of sight from the highway, the 58-year-old architect and father of three was considered missing for a month before a cyclist found the car. Upon initial investigation, Trooper David Hall said, officers didn’t suspect alcohol was involved and said they might never know if he had been drunk because too much time had passed for effective toxicology testing.
The Jefferson County Coroner’s Office hasn’t released results of Franta’s toxicology tests, and officials from the office didn’t return calls from the Camera on Wednesday.
According to search warrants filed in Boulder County Court and released this week, a strip club employee remembered that Franta was “very drunk” that night.
Read the details from the search warrants at .
