The entire case against Christopher Cox, 30, was about talking, or snitching, as gang members call it — the most egregious of crimes in the gang world. He was accused of intimidating fellow gang members to get another member off of a crime in October 2010 by changing their stories to police about an assault case.
But for all the discussion of gang members violating their own rules by talking and cooperating with police, it was Cox’s own words that “single-handedly” brought down the 18th Street gang, said Chief Deputy District Attorney Robb Miller in closing arguments Tuesday morning.
The jury of seven men and five women took a little more than two hours to convict Cox on all counts: one violation of the Colorado Organized Crime Control Act, two counts of intimidation, two counts of conspiracy, one count of burglary and ultimately four counts of harassment, which were added at the end of the trial.
It was the first time the Weld District Attorney’s Office chose to prosecute a gang under the organized crime statutes, and it won’t be the last, warns Weld District Attorney Ken Buck.
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