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Former owner of jam band-themed bars in Denver arrested
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A former Denver club and brewery owner has been charged with nine counts of sexual assault. Denver Police believe there may be more victims who have not yet come forward.
Jay Bianchi, who owned Sancho's Broken Arrow, Be On Key Psychedelic Ripple, Quixote's True Blue, and co-owned So Many Roads Brewery, was arrested on April 16 in relation to three sexual assault cases; two from 2020, and one from this year.
Bianchi has been charged with:
two felony counts of sex assault - victim helpless
two felony counts of sex assault - overcome victim's will
two felony counts of sex assault - victim incapable of appraising conditions
one misdemeanor count of sexual contact - victim helpless
one misdemeanor count of sexual contact - no consent
one misdemeanor count of sexual contact - victim incapable of appraising conditions
According to an arrest affidavit, one of the victims went to Sancho's on Halloween night 2020 with a friend. The victim told police, she drank a few beers spread out over a few hours before going to Sancho's. The victim said, according to the affidavit, that she had one beer at Sancho's.
She told police she struggled to get up the stairs to go to the bathroom at Sancho's, the affidavit says. She said she remembered feeling confused while in the bathroom. The victim said her next memory was being woken up in the basement of Sancho's around 2:30 p.m. on Nov. 1. The victim said the shorts she had worn the night before were across the room, the affidavit says.
The victim told police she had texts from a number that she didn't know. One of the texts said, "I'm sorry that I had to leave you alone, I wanted to be there with you but I had to fix a sound person situation."
Police ran the phone number that sent the text through their records management system and that the number came back to Bianchi.