Criminal Mischief is charged in Fort Collins and Larimer County when a person causes damage to another person’s property. This is a common Domestic Violence charge. A woman is facing Domestic Violence Criminal Mischief charges after she wanted to get the final word in an argument with her boyfriend. According to the report, the man and woman were verballing fighting and the woman left the house. In the driveway, she shot at her boyfriend’s car tire. She fled the area, but later turned herself in.
Larimer County Criminal Mischief Lawyer: Definition of Domestic Violence Criminal Mischief
The Larimer County, Colorado law definition of Criminal Mischief – C.R.S. 18-4-501 – is:
By shooting the tire, she definitely caused damage. Because she was in an intimate relationship with the tire owner, she would get the added Domestic Violence sentence enhancer.
Sentence for Criminal Mischief in Loveland and Estes Park
Criminal Mischief is charged as a felony or misdemeanor depending on the amount of damage caused:
Criminal mischief is:
- A class 3 misdemeanor when the aggregate damage to the real or personal property is less than three hundred dollars;
- A class 2 misdemeanor when the aggregate damage to the real or personal property is three hundred dollars or more but less than seven hundred fifty dollars;
- A class 1 misdemeanor when the aggregate damage to the real or personal property is seven hundred fifty dollars or more but less than one thousand dollars;
- A class 6 felony when the aggregate damage to the real or personal property is one thousand dollars or more but less than five thousand dollars;
- A class 5 felony when the aggregate damage to the real or personal property is five thousand dollars or more but less than twenty thousand dollars;
- A class 4 felony when the aggregate damage to the real or personal property is twenty thousand dollars or more but less than one hundred thousand dollars;
- A class 3 felony when the aggregate damage to the real or personal property is one hundred thousand dollars or more but less than one million dollars; and
- A class 2 felony when the aggregate damage to the real or personal property is one million dollars or more.
Likely, the cost of a replacement tire will fall in the misdemeanor Criminal Mischief range.