A 62-year-old St. Louis man who flew to Denver intending to have sex with a woman and her two small daughters has been sentenced to more than 11 years in a federal prison.
Darwin Gilbert Gowen also must serve 10 years on supervised release following his prison term, according to Jeffrey Dorschner, spokesman for U.S. Attorney John Walsh.
Homeland Security investigators arrested Gowen at Denver International Airport in June 2014 after he flew to Colorado on a cross-country date to .
The family Gowen hoped to meet didn’t exist.
An undercover Homeland security agent based in Greeley posing as the woman had made the arrangement with Gowen, Dorschner said. Gowen was sentenced Tuesday.
Gowen wrote in e-mails that he was a widowed 60-year-old man “wanting to experience “
He added that he “adored chubby girls” and was “looking for naughty daughters … who love to hook up with a kinky mom for mom daughter fun.”
Gowen met a female Homeland Security agent at DIA’s baggage claim. He was arrested after he acknowledged his reason for coming to Denver was to have sex with the woman and her two young daughters.
Denver police and agents from the State Patrol assisted in making the arrest at DIA.
Assistant U.S. attorney Alecia Riewerts, the Project Safe Childhood coordinator for the District of Colorado, prosecuted Gowen.
Kirk Mitchell: 303-954-1206, denverpost.com/coldcases or twitter.com/kirkmitchell
