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Angelo Alston

44 years for shooting Cherry Hills Village police officer

The man who shot and wounded a Cherry Hills Village police officer during a home invasion robbery in 2018 was sentenced to 44 years in prison.

Angelo Alston

Angelo Alston


On Monday, Arapahoe County District Court Judge Eric White sentenced Angelo Alston, 20, to 44 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections for the attack on Officer Cory Sack. Alston pleaded guilty Aug. 2, 2021, to one count of attempted murder of a police officer and three counts of aggravated robbery. White sentenced Alston to 32 years on each of the aggravated robbery counts, to run concurrent to each other and to the sentence on the top count.

District Attorney John Kellner was the first prosecutor on the case, and he followed it closely after his election.

“I cannot think of a more flagrant violation of the laws that hold our society together than trying to kill a peace officer,” Kellner said. “This wasn’t a robbery when no one was home. This was an invasion of a home when the perpetrators knew people were inside. And those perpetrators brought guns.

“When Officer Sack ran to the aid of that family, this defendant unloaded his clip right at the officer. We are lucky to still have Officer Sack. An incredible investigative effort brought this defendant to justice, and rightly so.”

On Aug. 20, 2018, just before 11 p.m., Alston and three accomplices entered a Cherry Hills Village home through an unlocked back door. Six people were home at the time. The four ordered members of the family around at gunpoint. Some were confined to a bathroom, and others hid. The robbers forced the family to open a safe; they stole cash and valuables.

Officer Sack responded to a 911 hang-up call at the home and interrupted the robbery. While some robbers fled, Alston shot at Sack as he entered the home.

Sack was shot twice; once in his right ankle and once in his left leg shattering his femur. The bullets narrowly missed his femoral artery. Sack returned fire, striking Alston in the hand. As Alston fled, Sack dragged himself outside and called for help.

“The reason he wanted me dead was the badge I was wearing,” Sack told the court during sentencing on Oct. 11. “Only the lowest of the low will try to kill a police officer trying to help others in their most vulnerable time. … He left me there to die.”

The District Attorney’s Office determined that Sack was justified in firing his weapon during the attack.

The family that was robbed was too traumatized to be in the courtroom with the ringleader who organized the group that terrorized them in their own home.

Sack was accompanied in court by his wife, Cherry Hills Village Police Chief Michelle Tovrea and numerous fellow officers.

Senior Deputy District Attorney Casey Brown asked the court to impose 48 years, the maximum allowed under the plea agreement.

Officer Sack “selflessly responded and entered the home. He was the only thing standing between the family and the terror of that night,” Brown told the court. “The defendant fired shots at Officer Sack without any regard for the value of his life.”

Judge White called the facts of the case “extremely aggravated.”

“The shooting of a law enforcement officer – there aren’t many crimes more aggravated. … For his valor, (Sack) was shot,” White said. “The shooting of a police officer shows great disrespect for the rules of society.”

He added: “I can’t mitigate (Alston’s) moment of decision with what I know. The defendant is left with the choices he made.”

44 years for shooting Cherry Hills Village police officer was last modified: October 12th, 2021 by Eric Ross
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Tre Carrasco

Arapahoe judge sentences serial rapist to 136 years to life in prison

An Arapahoe County District Court judge has sentenced a serial rapist to 136 years to life in prison.

Tre Carrasco

Tre Carrasco


“I am fully convinced, 100 percent, that there is no woman safe in America if you are out of prison,” Judge Ben Leutwyler told Tre Carrasco. “You will continue to rape people … because you want what you want, and nothing will stand in the way except the government.

“You are a threat to every female in our country … and I must do what I can to promote community safety.”

An Arapahoe County jury on May 13 found Carrasco, 26, guilty in cases in Aurora and Cherry Hills Village after a five-day trial.

During the July 9 sentencing hearing, Deputy District Attorney Casey Brown recounted Carrasco’s history of sexual assaults and lack of any interest in rehabilitation in asking the judge for a lengthy sentence.

“This defendant is a predator … This is not a defendant who can exist out in society without perpetrating on women,” Brown said. “He feels entitled to his victims, and he has left a wake of destruction behind him.”

Carrasco was in prison for a sexual assault in Kansas. He was released and within days was accused of another sexual assault. He fled to Colorado.

On Feb. 7, 2019, Carrasco tried to kidnap a woman in the parking lot of a fitness club in Aurora. She got away, but he stole her car.

Then, on Feb. 12, 2019, Carrasco drove that car to a home in Cherry Hills Village where he raped a woman at knifepoint. He was arrested about five hours later in the same car stolen in Aurora.

The cases were prosecuted by Brown and Chief Deputy District Attorney Christopher Gallo.

The jury found Carrasco guilty of:
• 2nd-degree kidnapping, with a deadly weapon
• Sexual assault, with a deadly weapon
• Burglary, with a deadly weapon
• Aggravated robbery, with a deadly weapon
• Two counts of aggravated motor vehicle theft
• Two counts of Criminal trespass
• Attempt to influence a public servant
• False reporting
• Driving a motor vehicle without a license

“This sentence will keep a dangerous predator off the streets and in prison, where he belongs,” said District Attorney John Kellner. “Perhaps his victims can take a small measure of comfort in knowing that their cooperation and testimony has led to this result.”

Arapahoe judge sentences serial rapist to 136 years to life in prison was last modified: July 12th, 2021 by Eric Ross
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Report on Aug. 20, 2018, shooting in Cherry Hills Village

Review of the shooting at a suspect by Cherry Hills Village Police Officer Cory Sack at a home on Sedgewick Drive

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Report on Aug. 20, 2018, shooting in Cherry Hills Village was last modified: April 19th, 2023 by Eric Ross
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