Fraudster On The Lam Nabbed In Boulder, Gets 34.5 Years

CENTENNIAL, CO – A businessman charged with multiple swindles and frauds, who cut off his GPS bracelet and fled during his September, 2018 trial and was later nabbed in Boulder was sentenced this week in Arapahoe County District Court.

Larry McGee, 61, was convicted in absentia in September of 21 counts of defrauding a business owner and building contractors of more than $500,000.

District Court Judge Patricia Herron issued a warrant for his arrest and he was arrested in October, 2018. Since then, McGee has been held on no bond in the Arapahoe County Jail.

Judge Herron sentenced McGee Monday to 34.5 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections, The Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office said in a Friday news release.

"Here, stealing this much money warranted incarceration," the judge told the court. "But there’s more. McGee cowardly ran from the jury trial he picked. To paraphrase Chris Rock: If you make the justice system chase after you, it’s bringing a whole bunch of incarceration with it.”

McGee disappeared last September, when he failed to appear for his trial, which had been stalled and delayed for four years, the Arapahoe County District Attorney's office said.

The case began in January, 2014, when a landlord told the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office that tenant McGee had not paid rent for two years on his business property at 12656 E. Jamison Place, in Englewood. McGee had also not paid any of the contractors he hired to "perform upgrades and enhancements to the property," prosecutors said.

Prosecutors said he also "impersonated a local attorney, drafted forged letters to the victim under the attorney's letterhead, and gave the victim the forged deposit slips and wire transfer records in order to remain a tenant and keep the scheme going."

"After fifty-one months, Larry McGee has finally received the sentence he justly deserves," Senior Deputy District Attorney Steve Fauver said in a statement. “The citizens of our state are safer with this financial predator off the streets.”

Related: Fraudster, 60, Disappears During Arapahoe County Jury Trial

Image via Arapahoe County District Attorney's Office

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