In Greeley and Weld County, Intimidating a Witness or Victim is charged when a person threatens or harasses someone connected with a criminal case in order to influence testimony. A man and his private investigator are facing these charges after hatching a scheme to blackmail a victim’s family member. According to the report, the man was accused of sexually assaulting a young family member. His P.I. somehow set up the victim’s family member and recorded that family member having sex with two prostitutes. He later approached the family member and threatened to release the videos if they didn’t ‘stop making trouble.’ The family immediately reported the threat and the man was charged with an additional crime and his P.I. picked up a criminal case as well.
Weld County Intimidating a Witness: Definition of Intimidating a Victim in Morgan County
The Weld, Morgan, and Logan County, Colorado law definition of Intimidating a Witness or Victim – C.R.S. 18-8-704 – is:
(a) Influence the witness or victim to testify falsely or unlawfully withhold any testimony; or
(b) Induce the witness or victim to avoid legal process summoning him to testify; or
(c) Induce the witness or victim to absent himself or herself from an official proceeding; or
(d) Inflict such harm or injury prior to such testimony or expected testimony.
The men would be facing this class 4 felony for threatening a family member connected to the victim to try and affect the testimony of the family.