Extortion is charged in Fort Collins and Larimer County when a person threatens another in order to get that person to do something. A man was recently sentenced to 35 years in prison for Extortion after manipulating young girls and women into sending him sexually explicit photos. According to the report, the man used social media and would convince them they were in a romantic relationship, offer to pay them, or threaten them in order to get the naked photos. One of the girls who sent photos was 10 years old. It’s likely that if this had occurred in Colorado, the man would have also faced charges for Sexual Exploitation of a Child – the child pornography crime.
Larimer County Criminal Extortion Lawyer: Definition of Extorting Others
The Larimer and Boulder County, Colorado law definition of Criminal Extortion – C.R.S. 18-3-207 – is:
(a) The person, without legal authority and with the intent to induce another person against that other person’s will to perform an act or to refrain from performing a lawful act, makes a substantial threat to confine or restrain, cause economic hardship or bodily injury to, or damage the property or reputation of, the threatened person or another person; and
(b) The person threatens to cause the results described in paragraph (a) of this subsection (1) by:
(I) Performing or causing an unlawful act to be performed; or
(II) Invoking action by a third party, including, but not limited to, the state or any of its political subdivisions, whose interests are not substantially related to the interests pursued by the person making the threat.
Because the man threatened some of his alleged victims in order to get them to send naked photos (an unlawful act when the photos are of children), he was charged with this crime.
Sentence for Criminal Extortion in Fort Collins, Loveland, and Estes Park
Extorting another is a class 4 felony in Fort Collins, Loveland, and Estes Park. This level felony is punishable by 2 to 6 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections and up to $500,000 in fines.
If you or someone you love has been charged with or arrested for Criminal Extortion, be smart, exercise your right to remain silent, and contact the best criminal defense attorneys from the O’Malley Law Office at 970-658-0007 to schedule your free consultation today. Together, we can protect your future.
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