False Reporting Attorney in Fort Collins
Police Officer Charged False Reporting, Tampering, and Attempt to Influence a Public Servant

False Reporting is just one of the crimes a person can be charged with in Fort Collins and Larimer County when they lie to police. The person can also face charges of Attempt to Influence a Public Servant and Tampering with Evidence. But, what happens when the liar is a police officer? Well, she gets charged just like everyone else! Continue Reading

False Reporting Lawyers in Greeley, CO
Elderly Man Pulled Over After False Report Claimed He Had a Gun

False Reporting to Authorities, C.R.S. 18-8-111, is usually charged in Greeley, CO when a person calls the Greeley Police or other law enforcement agency and falsely reports a crime.  This usually means knowingly reporting a crime that never actually happened or giving false information about a crime.  Recently, an elderly man visiting from Utah was pulled over after another driver Continue Reading

False Reporting Lawyers in Fort Collins, Colorado
What are Colorado’s Different Laws on Giving False Information?

Our top False Reporting lawyers in Fort Collins, Colorado advise that any act of providing false information to authorities can result in stiff penalties.  At a minimum, “swatting” can be a class 2 misdemeanor, but can even be a class 3 felony in the worst case scenario.  These kinds of charges depend on the outcome of the false report – Continue Reading

False Reporting of a Mass Shooting Fort Collins Attorney
New False Reporting Law in Colorado

In Fort Collins, Loveland, and across Larimer County, False Reporting to Authorities is charged when a person contacts emergency services or law enforcement to report a crime or emergency that hasn’t occurred. There is another False Reporting statute that was recently updated to add False Reporting of a Mass Shooting or Active Shooter. Let’s look at this new subsection of Continue Reading

False Reporting to Authorities in Fort Collins
Johnstown Police Officer Called Out for Lying but Not Charged

In Fort Collins and Larimer County, lying to a police officer is taken very seriously. Providing information to law enforcement that you know to be false will result in False Reporting charges. However, it seems the Weld County DA does not hold everyone to the same standard as that’s EXACTLY what a Johnstown Police Officer just got away with. According Continue Reading

Larimer County False Reporting Attorney
Man Reports Being Stabbed, Only to Have Cut Himself

Reporting a crime to Fort Collins Police or the Larimer County Sheriff when you know it did not actually occur is charged as False Reporting to Authorities. A man was charged with False Reporting after claiming that he had been stabbed in a Robbery. Through investigation, it was proven that the man not only lied about the stabbing, he actually Continue Reading

False Reporting in Fort Collins | A White Lie Turns into a Criminal Offense

When a night shift nursing assistant didn’t return from a break, it raised suspicions. A concerned co-worker called the nurse assistant to check-in on her and she told the co-worker her boyfriend was holding her against her will. Obviously worried that the nurse may have been Kidnapped or the victim of False Imprisonment, the co-worker called the police to report Continue Reading