By Benjie Cooper
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A former deputy for the Douglas County Sheriff’s Department in Colorado has been sentenced to jail for purchasing a firearm for her boyfriend who had previously been convicted of, among other things, possessing a handgun while being a felon.
Thirty-six-year-old former deputy Bianca Roberts met Joshua Tisch while he was serving a sentence in the jail she’d been assigned to work. The two started a relationship which became physical when Tisch completed his sentence in 2017, even though Roberts was married at the time.
Roberts resigned during an initial investigation in May of 2017 and was indicted in October after it was found that she had purchased a .9mm Smith & Wesson pistol for Tisch for protection in his marijuana business.
“Purchasing a firearm for a convicted felon is outrageous,” stated District Attorney George Brauchler in a press release. “Purchasing a firearm for a felon to protect himself from the dangers of illegal drug dealing is inexplicable and unjustifiable.”
“The good men and women who serve in uniform don’t want these bad apples amongst them, and citizens deserve better from those tasked with protecting them,” he said.”
Roberts pleaded guilty to the charge of straw purchase of a firearm, a Class 4 felony, and was sentenced on December 17 to 60 days in jail and two years of probation. She also pleaded guilty to violating the no-contact terms of her bond as authorities found more than 300 phone calls between Roberts and Tisch after the court ordered them to cease communication.
Tisch pleaded guilty to a Class 6 felony charge of being a felon in possession of a weapon and was given a sentence of twelve months in the Department of Corrections.
“We expect law enforcement members to uphold the law, not to break it,” said Chief Deputy District Attorney Gary Dawson who prosecuted the case. “Roberts threw away her career, repeatedly choosing this felon over her oath to uphold the law. This is truly a case of ‘just desserts’”
Dawson stated that Roberts is now, “a two-time felon, serving a sentence as a prisoner in the very jail in which she was employed as a deputy.”
