Rick Carroll

4 days ago | aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll

An Aspen man’s sentence of seven days in Pitkin County Jail is scheduled to start today as part of his court punishment for discharging a handgun outside of an apartment complex during an early morning confrontation with his neighbor over television noise. At a sentencing hearing on Monday in Pitkin County District Court, Judge Laura Makar also ordered Noah McCuiston, 23, to three years of supervised probation and to perform 24 hours of community service.

2 weeks ago | aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll

An ongoing legal battle over the ownership structure and operation of the Belly Up Aspen nightclub made some inroads Wednesday. Pitkin County District Judge Laura Makar agreed during a courtroom conference to dismiss five of six claims in a Belly Up investor’s lawsuit that were filed on behalf of the limited liability company that owns the nightclub’s property on Galena Street.

2 weeks ago | aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll

The city of Aspen and homeowner Mark Tye appear to be on a collision course for a date in municipal court. The city has not wavered from its position that because Tye’s yard signs run afoul of the municipal sign ordinance, they must be removed. Some of the signs are political and others are critical of developer Mark Hunt. The city, however, says the signs’ content aren’t the problem; it’s that they have been up for too long. Tye, too, is holding his ground.

2 weeks ago | aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll

A federal judge on Friday issued two two-year prison terms to a Basalt man who also must forfeit nearly $550,000 in a cash judgment as part of a sentence for his role in a CBD company that used fraudulent means to obtain pandemic relief funds and solicit investor dollars. Ronald Wallace, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud and bank fraud in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado on Nov. 7, must surrender to the Bureau of Prisons between Aug. 5 and Aug.

2 weeks ago | aspendailynews.com | Rick Carroll

Dealings around an Aspen luxury home under the alleged ownership of a sanctioned Russian banker are set to come under the scrutiny of a federal jury at a trial this summer in New York. The trial is scheduled to begin Monday, June 16, in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.