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Former Denver bar owner facing sex assault charges

By May 3, 2024 | updated 2 years ago

Jay Bianchi
Jay Bianchi, former owner of local clubs like Sancho's Broken Arrow and Quixote's True Blue, was arrested by the Denver Police Department on April 16 on suspicion of three sexual assault cases.
Courtesy of the Denver Police Department

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.

A couple of days later, the affidavit states, the victim’s friend came forward to police and said Bianchi had groped her as well on Halloween night 2020. The second woman said she had a few drinks at Sancho’s and things got “fuzzy” and “blurry,” the affidavit says.

The second victim told police she vaguely remembered being in the basement of Sancho’s with the first victim and Bianchi, the affidavit says. The second victim said, according to the affidavit, her next memory was leaving Sancho’s on Nov. 1 at around 11:30 a.m.

For more on this story, and others, visit The Denver Gazette’s news partner, 9News

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