A federal judge has rejected suspected cocaine trafficker Christopher Sheehan’s bid have to his bond lifted so he can be released from custody.
Judge Marcia Krieger denied Sheehan’s appeal of a magistrate judge’s decision to keep Sheehan detained without bond until his trial, according to court papers.
Krieger’s ruling came after a hearing Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Denver.
“The judge determined that Sheehan was ultimately a risk of flight so she ordered him detained,” said Jeff Dorschner, spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Denver.
Sheehan, 65, of Snowmass Village, was arrested May 19 at Dallas Forth Worth International Airport after he disembarked a flight out of Costa Rica. He’s one of six Aspen-area residents indicted by a federal grand jury in Denver on cocaine trafficking charges, based on federal authorities’ allegations that they were part of a network that funneled more than 200 kilograms of the drug from Los Angeles to Aspen over a 15-year period.
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