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Colorado Springs mayoral candidate arrested yet once again, and again, and..., for domestic violence
Mayoral hopeful arrested again in yet another domestic violence case
Multiple prior arrests and restraining orders
Denver woman arrested for fake rape accusation
Prior and post history of Jasmine Burlingame
Woman bites Colorado Springs police officer's finger off
Evans woman wanted for attempted murder after man responds to her ad
Broomfield woman repeatedly stabs her common-law husband
Lakewood mom accused of sex trafficking her 12-year-old daughter
Colorado Springs woman arrested for attempted murder after ramming minivan into a home
Abstracted from various news sources
January 3, 2015
— Justine Herring, 48, a real estate broker and candidate for mayor of Colorado Springs in the 2015 election, is accused of domestic violence menacing with an AR-15 rifle at Memorial Park, a public space near downtown and frequented by families and youth sports teams, on Saturday, according to Colorado Springs police. Authorities say she pointed the rifle at a man and threatened him.
She was arrested January 5 th after the victim called police and charged with felony menacing involving domestic violence. While in custody she was also charged impersonating a peace officer.
Police also say that earlier that day Ms. Herring waved a firearm and threatened the same victim in the 800 block of Bryce Drive, representing herself as a member of a federal law enforcement agency. The next day, while still in custody, she was rearrested and charged with felony menacing and impersonating a peace officer
Justine Herring, who recently came onto the city's political scene, has a criminal history of misdemeanor offenses, including driving under the influence and domestic violence, records show.
After her arrests Ms. Herring told KRDO, a television news station in Colorado Springs, that she planned to continue her bid for mayor and then run for president in 2016. “Bad publicity is better than no publicity,” The narcissistic Ms. Herring posted on Facebook in November.
Abstracted from story by Jesse Paul, The Denver Post
January 12, 2015 — Justine Herring, the Colorado Springs mayoral hopeful charged earlier this month in a laundry list of crimes including accusations she pointed a rifle at a man, was arrested again Monday on charges of assault and violating a protection order.
Police say Herring, 48, was involved in a verbal altercation with her common-law husband at the couple's home on the 600 block Glen Eyrie Circle at about 8 AM.
“During the verbal altercation, Herring threw a large metal pipe at her common-law husband, striking him in the hand and causing a minor injury,” police said. “Herring then threw an object at her common-law husband as he left the residence.”
Justine Herring had been ordered to stay away from the home. Her common-law husband did not require medical attention.
Herring was charged in Monday's arrest with second-degree assault and violation of a mandatory protection order. The mayoral hopeful was, once again, booked into the El Paso County Jail.
Records show Justine Herring has a criminal history of misdemeanor offenses, including theft, driving under the influence, as well as domestic violence. The mayoral candidate has been arrested several times prior to 2015 and she's been involved in a half-dozen protection orders.
May 2012 — Ms. Herring was cited for misdemeanor theft and trespass in El Paso County. She pled guilty to the theft charge and was given a deferred judgment that she completed in March 2013, according to court records. A deferred sentence involves a guilty plea but is supposed to allow a defendant to clear their record if they complete the conditions of their sentence. However, as noted here, the faux conviction still shows in public records.
February 2012 — Justine Herring was arrested for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI), careless driving, and having an open alcoholic beverage container in her vehicle. She pled guilty to the DUI and was again given a deferred sentence, court records state.
August 2009 — She was arrested in Colorado Springs for misdemeanor assault in a domestic violence incident. The district attorney dismissed the case, court records state.
Restraining orders — Justine Herring has been involved in six protection orders, including four that were filed in the past five years. Court records show Herring filed two protection orders against men and two against women. Two women filed protection orders against her.
She also pled guilty to violating a protection order in 2010 and was sentenced to 50 hours of community service and 12 months of probation, court records show.
The correlation of this insane behavior with her mid-40's age suggests her problems are related to perimenopause.
Abstracted from story by Michael Roberts in Westword and other court and news sources
February 14, 2015
— About 7:30 AM a Denver police officer traveled to St. Anthony's hospital on a report of a sexual assault.
There, Jasmine Burlingame, 26, told the officer that she had gone to the home of a male co-worker. Already there upon their arrival was the co-worker's roommate, who was playing video games — so Jasmine and her co-worker headed to his room to talk.
While the two were there, she said, the roommate came in and elbowed her co-worker in the head, causing him to lose consciousness. According to her account, the roommate elbowed her as well, then pinned her to the bed, pulled her pants down, pushed her underwear to the side and sexually assaulted her both vaginally and anally.
At that point, Ms. Burlingame stated that she managed to get to her feet and kick the roommate in the groin. Then, after removing a bloody condom from her anus, she ran to a nearby address to phone her family.; She claimed the roommate had removed the battery from her cell phone, preventing her from using it. Her cousin picked her up at a nearby Safeway and took her to the hospital.
For one thing, Burlingame's co-worker had no memory of any happenings such as she described. He told investigators that he and Ms. Burlingame had gone out drinking the night before, and while the two of them might have “ fooled around, ” he wasn't sure about that — and if the act had taken place, it was consensual. Moreover, he didn't have any symptoms or physical wounds that suggested that he'd been knocked unconscious.
Meanwhile, the roommate denied doing anything like what Burlingame described — and like the co-worker, he voluntarily supplied a DNA sample.
This evidence proved key. A bloody condom was indeed found in the apartment, and when it was tested along with the rape kit taken at the hospital, the results “ directly contradicted] the version of events provided by Burlingame.” .
During a subsequent interview, Ms. Burlingame stuck by her original story. But in this case, her consistency didn't do her any favors. Indeed, it convinced the officer who wrote the report to recommend that she be accused of attempting to influence a public official and false reporting to authorities.
The Denver District Attorney's Office concurred. Jasmine Burlingame was then officially charged with two counts of the former (a felony) and one of the latter (a misdemeanor). She was released from custody on a $5,000 personal recognizance bond.
At trial Jasmine Burlingame made the extraordinary argument that the case against her should be dismissed because the government's conduct was outrageous. Incredibly, Denver District Court Judge Brian Whitney accepted that argument (Case No. 15CR4899) and dismissed the case against her on October 28, 2016.
Naturally enough the People appealed the trial court's dismissal of charges against defendant, Jasmine Burlingame, based on outrageous government conduct (Case No. 16CA2198). It is of little surprise to find that the Court of Appeals concluded the trial court's factual findings do not support a finding of outrageous government conduct and instructed the trial court to reinstate the charges and remanded the case back to the trial court for consideration of the remaining issues.
After her appeal she returned to the Denver court again and Case No. 2015CR4899 was reopened and Jasmine entered a plea of not guilty to all three of the original charges. However, after a couple of years of fumbling and stumbling around by Judge Whitney, the charges against Jasmine were dismissed by the district attorney on March 12, 2019.
But this false rape case was hardly the beginning or end of Jasmine's experience with Colorado courts. According to court records her first known run in occurred in September 2004 when she was arrested at age 15 for underage drinking in Gilpin County.
At age 17, in 2006 two different men filed for domestic abuse protection orders against her in Adams County.
In 2016 a man sued her for personal injury against him in Denver court.
In fact, scarcely a year has gone by in this century without a court case being brought against Jasmine Burlingame. The latest known case in January 2024 found her driving under FRA suspension and with no drivers license in Broomfield County.
by Bailey O'Neill, Fox 21 News
March 1, 2015 — A Colorado Springs woman is accused of biting off an officer's finger early Sunday morning.
Police were called to the 800 block of South Circle Drive at 6:15 AM after receiving a report of a domestic disturbance in the area.
Their investigation revealed that the suspect, Sueanna Harris, 29, threatened to stab her husband with a 9-inch kitchen knife.
Mrs. Harris was transported to Memorial Hospital for medical clearance. At the hospital she viciously bit an officer's finger off.
Police did not say why Ms. Harris attacked the officer.
Abstracted from article by Michael Roberts, Westword, and other news sources
July 5, 2015
— At 2:27 PM on Sunday officers were dispatched to an address on the 1500 block of Caddoa Drive, according to the Loveland Police Department. There, they encountered Craig Janda, 64, who said he'd been attacked by a twenty-year-old woman, Jenessa Rosenbach, he'd met online.
Ms. Rosenbach, an Evans resident, first met with Craig Janda earlier in the summer after he reached out to her through a Craigslist ad labeled, “ Just wanna have a good ole time.” The earlier meeting included an apparently pleasant conversation complete with wine on Janda's sun porch.
A very different scene unfolded July 5 when Ms. Rosenbach and her co-conspirator, Gabrielle Close, 20, went to the man's Loveland home. Ms. Rosenbach massaged Janda's shoulders and then pulled out a knife and dragged it across the man's throat.
The women fled the scene, and the man was hospitalized with life-threatening injuries.
Ms. Rosenbach and Close turned themselves in to police in the following days.
Jenessa Rosenbach was charged with first-degree attempted murder after deliberation and first-degree assault with a deadly weapon for slicing Craig Janda's neck.
In May 2016 Ms. Rosenbach pled guilty to a lesser charge of second-degree assault. Eighth Judicial District Judge Devin Odell immediately sentenced her to 16 years in prison, sidestepping a lengthy and potentially more damning jury trial.
She could have faced a significantly longer prison sentence if a jury convicted her of the more serious charges that were dismissed as part of the plea.
Jenessa's co-conspirator, Gabrielle Close pled guilty to being an accessory to a crime and tampering with evidence. She faces two to seven years in prison.
Abstracted from story by Jennifer Rios, Broomfield Enterprise
August 11, 2015 — Nerio Pinales called 911 at 3:06 AM about an assault that occurred at a house in the 500 block of W. 126th Circle.
Nerio Pinales had worked until about 2 AM at his second job and then came home where he was viciously attacked by Carmen Blanco Bermudez, his common law wife. She stabbed him seven times and tried to slit his throat. The stab wounds punctured his liver and gall bladder.
Pinales fled to a neighbor's porch where he was able to call 911.
Carmen was charged with attempted first-degree murder after deliberation and first-degree assault with a deadly weapon causing serious bodily injury. She had who had no prior criminal history, and has been in jail since her arrest.
She and her husband have three children who were 13, 11 and 8 years old at the time.
Pinales, who would later undergo several surgeries, said in court that he didn't really understand why all this was happening. “I feel sadness because I think she might go away with a lower sentence,” he said. “It seems like she's the victim, but she's not. I am the victim here.”
“I've been hurt not just physically, but mentally, emotionally, financially,” he said. “My kids are really sad also. All my family.” He wanted the court to know “there have been a lot of people hurt” in this attack.
In March, Bermudez pled guilty to first-degree assault causing serious bodily injury. She was sentenced to 15 years in prison.
A major depressive disorder was “more or less the root of this issue,” her attorney said, referencing three psychological reports on Bermudez.
He recommended housing her in the correctional facility's mental health unit, a decision that will be made by the Department of Corrections.
Abstracted from story by Jesse Paul, The Denver Post
October 14, 2015
— A 43-year-old Lakewood mother is accused of human trafficking after accepting gifts and money from an Australian man who sexually assaulted her 12-year-old daughter
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Julie Anne Greiner has been charged with child sex trafficking, child pimping, and a pattern of child sex assault — all felonies.
Greiner's daughter met 23-year-old Thomas Keski, of Australia, in an online chat in mid-2014, Jefferson County prosecutors say.
The two bonded there, according to an arrest warrant, and their relationship became sexual over video chat.
Keski sent money and gifts to the girl and Ms. Greiner, including thousands of dollars that was sometimes used to pay Greiner's rent and other bills.
The warrant says at one point Thomas Keski sent Julie Greiner to buy an engagement ring for her daughter, which she did.
Thomas Keski and his mother came to Colorado where he met Julie Greiner and her young daughter. Keski then took the group on a trip to Hawaii. On that trip “Keski and the child slept in the same bed while Julie Greiner shared a room with Keski's mother.” [Note that none of the participants apparently objected to these arrangements.]
Ms. Greiner told her daughter she “didn't see a problem with” the age difference between Keski and the young girl. [And in the Muslim world it would have been natural!]
An officer told Greiner during an interview that “...it (looked) like she pimped her daughter out to this guy for about $10,000.”
Lakewood police have been working with authorities in Australia and Thomas Keski has been arrested and charged there, according to prosecutors.
Julie Greiner was arrested and being held at the Jefferson County jail in lieu of $50,000 bond.
[The EJF wonders if this is even a crime? If the daughter were five years older and the man twenty-eight there would have no problem. Also, as noted, in many countries marriages between girls of twelve to men in their twenties are commonly arranged. Are we once again simply applying Puritan morals to natural selection?]
Abstracted from article by Rich Laden, Colorado Springs Gazette
November 15, 2015
— Carol Gallegos, 56, was arrested on three counts of suspicion of attempted first-degree murder after she repeatedly rammed her minivan at about 4:50 PM into the apartment of her ex-boyfriend in the 1400 block of Crestone Avenue, east of 8th and Brookside streets — causing extensive damage, estimated at about $25,000, and narrowly missing a woman and her two children who were inside at the time, police said.
The 24-year-old woman, her 5-year-old son and 3-year-old daughter were able to get out of the apartment before a wall collapsed next to where the children were seated. “ Had it tipped over, very likely it would fallen on both of those small children in the apartment,” police said.
Gallegos' vehicle wound up pushing an entertainment center a couple of feet inside the apartment.
Ms. Gallegos' motive was unknown, “ ...but the fact she was in a prior relationship with the male half that lived there, then it's considered domestic violence,” police said. The ex-boyfriend wasn't home at the time.
Ms. Gallegos then fled the scene in the minivan.
About 40 minutes later, she ran a red light at 21st and Cimarron streets, causing a four-car wreck, the police report said. Ms. Gallegos was taken to Penrose Hospital where she was treated for a ruptured spleen. She was expected to be hospitalized for a couple days, then would be taken to the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center,
As a result of the crash, Gallegos was originally arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol, driving under restraint, no proof of insurance, and a red light violation. In addition, she was charged with three counts of attempted first-degree murder, criminal mischief, and felony domestic violence.
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