{"id":957,"date":"2026-05-29T04:05:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:05:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=957"},"modified":"2026-05-29T04:05:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T04:05:15","slug":"jeffco-man-gets-decades-in-prison-for-kidnapping-attempted-murder-of-roommate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=957","title":{"rendered":"Jeffco man gets decades in prison for kidnapping, attempted murder of roommate"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div><strong>Getting your Trinity Audio player ready&#8230;<\/strong><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>A Jefferson County man was sentenced to 32 years in prison earlier this month after a jury found him guilty of attempted murder, assault and kidnapping for abducting and torturing his roommate.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=956\">Football success a priority for Buffs athletic director Fernando Lovo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jimmy Ray Smith, 41, was one of four people arrested after a man told police the group broke into his room at a home in the 4700 block of South Oak Court, where he had lived for a few weeks, and tied him up, assaulted and tortured him for 14 hours in September 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The man told investigators that the group beat him on the head and knees with a pry bar and baseball bat; poured rubbing alcohol on his face and lit it on fire; and stepped on his neck until he lost consciousness.<\/p>\n<p>Smith\u2019s attorney could not immediately be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p>A second man charged in the case, 43-year-old Luke Leonard Anaya, pleaded guilty to second-degree assault and felony menacing and was sentenced to 12 years in prison in June.<\/p>\n<p>Jefferson County jurors acquitted a third man, Sherell Cortez Allen, of most of the charges filed against him after a trial in March.<\/p>\n<p>Allen, 50, was convicted of false imprisonment, a misdemeanor, and sentenced to 120 days in jail with credit for 554 days he was incarcerated before the trial.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=954\">Recent survivors of US boat strikes haven\u2019t been found, bringing overall death toll to 199<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a statement, his attorney Anna Geigle with the Denver law firm Geigle Morales, said Allen is deeply grateful for the jury\u2019s hard work and attentiveness.<\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe jury\u2019s attention to detail, careful interpretation of the law as instructed by the Court, and application of the law to the limited facts that were presented against Mr. Allen led them to the right outcome,\u201d Geigle said. \u201cIn the end, after spending nearly a year and a half in jail, Mr. Allen was exonerated and released to return home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The last man charged in the case, 50-year-old Jason Edward Carlson, is set to go to trial in August.<\/p>\n<p>The Jefferson County District Attorney\u2019s Office declined to comment on the outcome of the other cases because of Carlson\u2019s ongoing case.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/coloradospringsmoverss.com\/?p=952\">$99 million Aspen ranch owned by billionaire set for public auction<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Sign up to get crime news sent straight to your inbox each day.<\/em><\/p>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jimmy Ray Smith, was sentenced to 32 years in prison after a Jefferson County jury found him guilty of attempted murder for abducting and torturing his roommate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":749,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime-and-public-safety","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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