Police believe there may be more victims of Jay Bianchi who have not come forward.
DENVER — 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.
The woman went to her job at So Many Roads Brewing on Nov. 1 that afternoon, and said she wasn’t coherent and was “in the fetal position in the sound booth,” the affidavit says. Bianchi showed up and told the woman to leave. The woman went to the office at So Many Roads and was in there crying when she says, Bianchi came in and began kissing her and feeling her up without her consent, the affidavit says.
When the first victim’s rape kit was tested, a DNA match came back to a Boulder Police sexual assault case from 2016, the affidavit states. The victim in that case had identified Bianchi as a suspect but did not want to pursue charges at that time and the case was closed, the affidavit says.
On April 8 of this year, a woman reported to Denver Police that she had been sexually assaulted at So Many Roads Brewery the night before, the affidavit says.
The victim said she had a beer at the brewery, and after ordering a second beer, Bianchi sat next to her and started talking to her, the affidavit says. She ordered a third beer and said that was her last clear memory that night, the affidavit says.
The victim said she had flashes of memory of being sexually assaulted on a couch and walking through a dark room that had “strange paintings and decorations” on the walls, the affidavit states. The victim said she remembered having one of the bartenders call her an Uber after the victim made her way back to the bar, the affidavit says.
The victim told investigators she searched So Many Roads’ social media page two days after the sex assault and said she found photos and videos of her assailant, and the room where the alleged assault happened, the affidavit states.
Investigators looked up the business’s registered agent who was listed as Bianchi, the affidavit says. Police created a photo lineup which included a picture of Bianchi. The victim identified him from the photo lineup as her assailant, the affidavit says.
Bianchi remains in the Denver jail on a $250,000 bond. His next court date is scheduled for May 14.
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