A man accused in a , and who was he toted along during the rampage, pleaded guilty to 47 counts in Jefferson County court on Tuesday.
Christopher Sullivan, 37, was facing charges in two separate cases — the rampage and a case in which he was being held on suspicion of trafficking the teenager. The plea encompassed both cases.
The counts he pleaded guilty to included charges of aggravated robbery, first-degree assault, menacing with a deadly weapon, resisting arrest, contributing to the delinquency of a minor and .
Sullivan is set to be sentenced on April 27 and faces between 70 to 85 years in prison.
The deal represented Sullivan’s third and fourth felony convictions, according to the county district attorney’s office.
Sullivan’s crime spree began after what authorities called a routine traffic stop by a Jefferson County sheriff’s deputies. Sullivan while fleeing from law enforcement.
“There were 15 individual victims and three businesses (involved),” the district attorney’s office said in a news release. “Sullivan brandished an assault weapon throughout the criminal episode. He was also found to be in possession of methamphetamine.”
Part of the crime spree was captured by a television news helicopter flying overhead, which recorded the rampage ending on Interstate 70 when a sheriff’s deputy approached Sullivan on a motorcycle and held the suspect at gunpoint.
Motorists on the interstate helped take Sullivan into custody as the deputy demounted and chased Sullivan through traffic.
Sullivan met the teen girl in Albuquerque, N.M. where he first paid for sex with her after arranging to meet her through a backpage.com ad, according to court records.
From New Mexico, the pair left for Lakewood, where Sullivan allegedly helped arrange for the teen to meet men from the Denver area in a motel room off Kipling Street, records say. The girl, whose identity authorities have not released, sold herself to three men before she was arrested along with Sullivan, records say.
The teen has also been charged in the Lookout Mountain rampage and her case is still pending, the district attorney’s office said.
Jesse Paul: 303-954-1733, jpaul@denverpost.com or twitter.com/JesseAPaul
Updated March 30, 3015 at 12:20 p.m. Due to a source error, an earlier version of this story incorrectly reported the charges to which Christopher Sullivan, 37, pleaded guilty. Sullivan pleaded guilty to pandering, among the other charges listed above.
