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Paul E. Nader

48-year sentence for kidnapping, sex assault in Douglas County

A convicted sex offender who kidnapped, beat and sexually assaulted a woman in Douglas County was sentenced Monday to 48 years in prison.

Paul E. Nader

Paul E. Nader


Douglas County District Court Judge Patricia Herron sentenced Paul E. Nader, 32, after he pleaded guilty to first-degree assault and aggravated robbery. The Sept. 23, 2020, plea agreement also included 2 sentence enhancers for the crimes of violence.

“This defendant is unfit to be in society and unable to participate in the world,” the victim told the judge during sentencing Jan. 4, 2021, via Webex. “Each sex assault case is worse than the prior. I highly doubt the next victim will be as lucky as me.”

She added: “I have and will continue to thrive after being kidnapped, beaten and sexually assaulted. Others might not be so lucky. … I did what I did so it couldn’t happen to anyone else.”

On Aug. 14, 2018, Lone Tree police responded to a coffee shop to investigate a reported kidnapping. Witnesses said they saw a man force a woman into her own vehicle and drive off with her.

A short time later, Douglas County Sheriff’s deputies responded to a gas station. Witnesses reported seeing a man and woman get out of a vehicle. When the man wasn’t looking, the woman mouthed “Call 911.” A passerby did just that.

The subsequent investigation revealed the man approached the woman in the parking lot with a knife. He physically and sexually assaulted her in the vehicle until he stopped at the gas station, where she was able to get help.

Nader was living in Colorado Springs as a registered sex offender after a 2013 conviction in Jefferson County.

“For what the victim went through that day, no sentence is enough,” Senior Deputy District Attorney Brian Eckhardt told the judge during sentencing. “She speaks of her ordeal more eloquently than I am able to.”

Eckhardt prosecuted the case with Senior Deputy District Attorney Valerie Brewster.

“The victim here is a study in courage and persistence. Despite enduring unimaginable terror, she kept her wits, escaped her captor, assisted in his capture and finally saw him brought to justice through this prosecution,” said District Attorney George Brauchler. “This defendant and his outrageous conduct … this is why we build prisons. For those of the ‘everyone can be rehabilitated’ delusion, what possible classes, coloring books, or educational opportunities will fix a person who engages in this evil?”

48-year sentence for kidnapping, sex assault in Douglas County was last modified: January 6th, 2021 by Eric Ross
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Chauncey Price

304 years for leader of human trafficking & forgery ring

The leader of a human trafficking and forgery ring was sentenced last week to 304 years in prison, one of the longest sentences ever for trafficking.

Chauncey Price

Chauncey Price


Douglas County District Court Judge Theresa Slade sentenced Chauncey Price, 30, during a hearing on Oct. 8. The sentence is 304 years to life in the Colorado Department of Corrections, an indeterminate sentence. A jury found Price guilty in December of 13 counts including COCCA, human trafficking for sexual servitude, pandering of a child and forging a government security. His sentence was enhanced because the court found him to be a habitual offender as Price had been convicted previously of four separate felonies, including two instances of burglary.

Three of his victims testified during the trial how he forced them to have sex with strangers for money that they had to turn over to him. He and his associates placed online ads offering the women and girls, then rented hotel rooms for the sex acts.

During sentencing on Oct. 8, an advocate read a statement from one of his victims.

“Chauncey promised to take care of me. At first he paid for my drug habit and food and let me stay for free. But nothing is free. … He threatened to kill my sister if I didn’t work for him – that is when he turned me out. He kept pushing me to sleep with more and more men, up to eight a day. …

“I couldn’t even use the bathroom without someone watching me. Once I didn’t eat for 3 days,” the victim wrote in describing the humiliation, subjugation, pain and terror she lived through while Price prostituted her.

She added: “I want to make it clear that I came forward to save others from him … He exploited young girls, controlled them and manipulated them. He will continue to do that if he ever gets out.”

Senior Deputy District Attorney Kelley Dziedzic spoke of what Price did to his victims in asking the judge for a sentence of 304 years, with consecutive sentences for each named victim.

“Any reasonable good person would have looked at these victims and would have extended sympathy or empathy, but Price only looked at them and saw opportunity,” Dziedzic said. “His victims will live with the repercussions of his actions for the rest of their lives. They have a lifelong struggle ahead of them.”

Dziedzic, who prosecuted the case with Chief Deputy District Attorney Christopher Gallo, also made note of Price’s extensive criminal history.

“He has been given deferred judgments and had them revoked. He has had probation revoked. He had community corrections revoked. He was in prison, and he committed new acts while out on parole. While out on bond in this case, he tried to contact one of his victims,” she said. “He has repeatedly turned his back on opportunities for rehabilitation. … In this case that stretched over nearly a year, he had numerous chances to step away, but he never chose to change his behavior.”

Five co-defendants previously were charged and sentenced in the case. Two of those cases included drug charges.

The criminal ring was also involved in producing counterfeit currency and used the trafficking victims to pass the fake money at businesses across the state. Two co-defendants received sentences for forgery.

“This horrendous case highlights why my office pushed for the creation of a Human Trafficking Unit,” said District Attorney George Brauchler. “Traffickers trade in flesh and destroy souls, by using up their victims to further their criminal enterprises, with no regard whatsoever for the lives of fellow human beings. What possible rehabilitation can there be for someone who repeatedly and wantonly engages in this inhuman conduct? Spoiler alert: There is none. This is why we build prisons.

“Know, too, that these crimes occur in every community, right under the noses of law-abiding citizens. I am proud of the hard work we continue to do with law enforcement in my jurisdiction to stop the scourge of human trafficking.”

Participating agencies included the Douglas County Sheriff’s Office, Lone Tree Police Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Johnstown Police Department, Lakewood Police Department and the U.S. Secret Service.

On Dec. 17, 2019, a Douglas County jury found Price guilty of these counts:
• VIOLATION OF COLORADO ORGANIZED CRIME CONTROL ACT, C.R.S. 18-17-104(3) (F2)
• TRAFFICKING A MINOR FOR SEXUAL SERVITUDE, C.R.S. 18-3-504(2) (F2)
• HUMAN TRAFFICKING FOR SEXUAL SERVITUDE, C.R.S. 18-3-504 (F3)
• CRIMINAL ATTEMPT TO COMMIT PIMPING OF A CHILD, C.R.S. 18-7-405;18-2-101 (F4)
• CRIMINAL ATTEMPT TO COMMIT PATRONIZING A PROSTITUTED CHILD, C.R.S. 18-7-406(1)(a);18-2-101 (F4)
• PANDERING OF A CHILD, C.R.S. 18-7-403(1)(b) (F3)
• 2 counts of PIMPING, C.R.S. 18-7-206 (F3)
• 3 counts of FORGERY, C.R.S. 18-5-102(1)(a) (F5)
• POSSESSION OF FORGED INSTRUMENT, C.R.S. 18-5-105 (F6)
• POSSESSION OF A FORGERY DEVICE, C.R.S. 18-5-109(1)(d) (F6)

“This is not a normal sentence, but this was not a normal crime. You are not a defendant who deserves a minimum sentence,” Judge Slade told Price during sentencing. “You were a master at victimizing these women. … There is absolutely nothing this court can do to make these women whole.”

The longest sentence in a human trafficking case was handed down by Arapahoe County District Court Judge Peter Michaelson in November 2017 on habitual offender Brock Franklin, the leader of a trafficking ring. That sentence was announced as 472 years to life in prison, but the court later determined it had miscalculated Michaelson’s order; Franklin was actually sentenced to 400 years.

304 years for leader of human trafficking & forgery ring was last modified: October 15th, 2020 by Eric Ross
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Mark Randle Ryan

Judge sends doctor to jail for choking Lone Tree nurse

A doctor who choked a nurse at Sky Ridge Medical Center will spend 30 days in jail as part of his sentence.

Mark Randle Ryan

Mark Randle Ryan

Douglas County District Court Judge Theresa Slade on Monday sentenced Mark Randle Ryan, 58, to 30 days in jail.  Ryan pleaded guilty March 9, 2020, to one count of second-degree assault by strangulation, a Class 4 felony, and one count of third-degree assault, a Class 1 misdemeanor. The sentence includes a three-year deferred judgment on the felony count and three years probation on the misdemeanor count, as well as 100 hours of community service, mental health treatment and anger management therapy. Ryan has relinquished his medical license.

“Few people in society have as much responsibility as the medical professionals we trust to treat us in the hospital. This defendant was an anesthesiologist, who worked in stressful situations every day to monitor patients during surgery,” said District Attorney George Brauchler. “No occupation, regardless of stress, provides an excuse for assault, especially strangulation. The message here is clear: Teacher, electrician, attorney or doctor … viciously attack a coworker and go to jail.”

Judge Slade chose to sentence Ryan to 30 days in jail, citing his lack of empathy and the lasting damage choking can have on a victim.

“This happened in front of other patients and in front of other professionals,” Slade told Ryan. “When you did this to (the nurse), she couldn’t care for other patients, and you put them at risk. You don’t get to act this way, ever.”

Ryan was working as a contract anesthesiologist at Sky Ridge Medical Center on Oct. 8, 2018, when he and the charge nurse in the recovery room had a disagreement about him turning off the vital-sign machines of patients recovering from surgery.

A 51-year-old female nurse reminded Ryan not to turn off the machines. He grabbed her by the throat and squeezed her neck so that she felt pain and saw stars, she told Lone Tree police officers.

“Mark Ryan strangled me in a recovery room filled with patients and staff in a selfish act of violence,” the nurse told Judge Slade during sentencing June 22. “I was assaulted by a man who took an oath to do no harm.  I feel he might have killed me if no one else would have been around.”

The nurse reported the incident to officials at the hospital. Later that night she contacted police, who arrested Ryan.

“A doctor is supposed to be in the hospital helping others, not hurting someone who was there to help him,” Deputy District Attorney Dan Warhola told the judge as he asked her to impose jail time. “He grossly abused his position of authority.”

Judge sends doctor to jail for choking Lone Tree nurse was last modified: June 23rd, 2020 by Eric Ross
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Report on Feb. 28, 2019, shooting in Lone Tree

Review of the shooting death of Kenneth Sisneros by Lone Tree Police Officers Charles Miller and Andrew Montes in a parking lot at Park Meadows mall
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Report on Feb. 28, 2019, shooting in Lone Tree was last modified: April 19th, 2023 by Eric Ross
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