Menacing is charged in Fort Collins and Larimer County when a person puts another in fear of imminent serious bodily injury. “Man walks into a restaurant with a rifle” sounds like the beginning of a bad joke, but turns out it was no joke for everyone in a Colorado restaurant recently. According to the report, a man walked up to the bar of the restaurant and pulled out a rifle from the case he was carrying. While the employees and patrons were fleeing, the man went upstairs found the employee locker room (where everyone who had been upstairs was hiding), opened the door, and pointed his gun inside. He then began putting items in front of the door to keep everyone in. SWAT eventually went into the restaurant after all attempts at negotiation failed and the man was taken into custody.
Fort Collins Felony Menacing Lawyer: Definition of Felony Menacing with a Rifle in Colorado
The Larimer County, Colorado law definition of Menacing – C.R.S. 18-3-206 – is:
(a) By the use of a deadly weapon or any article used or fashioned in a manner to cause a person to reasonably believe that the article is a deadly weapon; or
(b) By the person representing verbally or otherwise that he or she is armed with a deadly weapon.
Obviously, the presence of the rifle would constitute the use of a deadly weapon.
Sentence for Felony Menacing in Loveland and Estes Park
In Fort Collins, Loveland, and Estes Park, class 5 felony Menacing with a Rifle is punishable by 1 to 3 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections and up to $100,000 in fines.