11-7-2010 Colorado:A day after an inmate was charged in two cold-case sexual assaults, he was found dead in his cell at Sterling Correctional Facility.
The body of habitual criminal Michael Anthony Carey, 51, was discovered at 1:20 p.m., said Katherine Sanguinetti, spokeswoman for the Colorado Department of Corrections.
Logan County coroner Dave Tennant said he will perform an autopsy in the next day or two.
Prison authorities reported Carey's death as a "possible" suicide, Tennant said.
Denver cold-case Detective Larry Moore II filed an arrest warrant Wednesday morning against Carey for a 1997 sexual assault case involving a 15-year-old girl and the assault of a female jogger the following year. Both cases were linked by DNA.
Sanguinetti said after the stories were reported in The Denver Post and by 9News, prison officials asked Carey if he wished to be taken out of the general prison population and placed in segregation for his protection. He declined, she said.
The cold cases in which Carey was accused occurred four months apart in 1997 and 1998. In the first, a 15-year-old girl said a man forced her to perform a sex act after she accepted his offer a ride in his truck. In the second, a jogger said a man in a truck tried to run her over, knocked her down and then forced her to perform a sex act.
In each of the assaults, the suspect told the victims where to walk after getting out of his vehicle.
Carey had a criminal record dating to 1978 for crimes that included burglary, drug dealing, assault, drunken driving and robbery. He was first arrested for indecent exposure in 1994 and was arrested twice more for the offense in 1998 and 1999. In 2000, he was sentenced to 16 years in prison for drug manufacturing and assaulting police, according to Colorado Bureau of Investigation records. ..Source.. by Kirk Mitchell:
No comments:
Post a Comment