{"id":8217,"date":"2018-04-21T02:07:42","date_gmt":"2018-04-21T02:07:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/?p=3025595"},"modified":"2018-04-21T02:07:42","modified_gmt":"2018-04-21T02:07:42","slug":"four-get-lengthy-prison-sentences-in-botched-marijuana-robbery-that-led-to-murder-of-loveland-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/four-get-lengthy-prison-sentences-in-botched-marijuana-robbery-that-led-to-murder-of-loveland-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Four get lengthy prison sentences in botched marijuana robbery that led to murder of Loveland man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"wp_fb_like_button\" style=\"margin:5px 0 5px 5px;float:right;height:100px;\"><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/four-get-lengthy-prison-sentences-in-botched-marijuana-robbery-that-led-to-murder-of-loveland-man\/\" send=\"true\" layout=\"standard\" width=\"450\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\" action=\"like\" colorscheme=\"light\"><\/fb:like><\/div><div class=\"article-slideshow\"><button class=\"icon-close\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<div class=\"image-wrapper\"><img class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" alt=\"Joshua Binns\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"slide-credit\">Denver District Attorney&#8217;s Office, supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"slide-caption\">Joshua Binns<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"image-wrapper\"><img class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" alt=\"Seth Binns\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"slide-credit\">Denver District Attorney&#8217;s Office, supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"slide-caption\">Seth Binns<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"image-wrapper\"><img class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" alt=\"Ryan Arellano\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"slide-credit\">Denver District Attorney&#8217;s Office<\/p>\n<p class=\"slide-caption\">Ryan Arellano<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<div class=\"image-wrapper\"><img class=\"lazyload size-article_inline\" alt=\"Mackenzie Fay\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"slide-credit\">Denver District Attorney&#8217;s Office, supplied<\/p>\n<p class=\"slide-caption\">Mackenzie Fay<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"slideshow-ad-slide\" \/><\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<p>A Denver district judge on Friday described a botched marijuana robbery as a goofy, crazy caper that did not make sense to a rational, sober person. Then he sentenced four defendants to prison for their roles in the robbery that led to a murder.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was almost like a game, a TV show, a reality show,\u201d Judge William Robbins said. \u201cIt always amazes me when people say, \u201cI\u2019m going to get a gun, but I don\u2019t intend to hurt anyone.\u2019 Guns are for hurting people, period. Killing people, period.\u00a0What on Earth did you people think was going to happen?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Robbins sentenced Joshua Scott Binns, 24, to 48 years in prison for second-degree murder. Binns shot and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2016\/11\/09\/denver-coroner-identifies-man-slain-in-elyria-swansea-double-shooting\/\">killed Charles Polzin on Nov. 8, 2016,<\/a>\u00a0during a scheme to rob Polzin of his marijuana. Polzin\u2019s son, Josh, was shot eight times but survived.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere are just no words to express how cold your actions were, Mr. Binns,\u201d Robbins said.<\/p>\n<p>Seth Michael Binns, 24, was sentenced to 32 years in prison for arranging the deal and accompanying his brother to the robbery. Ryan Arellano, 25, was sentenced to 24 years for providing the gun and the car the Binns used in the robbery, and Mackenzie Fay, 24, was sentenced to 24 years for arranging the deal on social media.<\/p>\n<p>The four made arrangements through Facebook and text messages to buy 10 pounds of marijuana from Charles Polzin, a 50-year-old father of three, and his son. The Polzins, who lived in Loveland, agreed to meet the Binn brothers in Denver to sell the marijuana. When they met at a designated location in the Elyria-Swansea neighborhood, Joshua Binns asked Charles Polzin, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.denverpost.com\/2017\/05\/18\/denver-marijuana-robbery-killing-charles-polzin-indictment\/\">Hey, you ain\u2019t gonna rob me, are ya?<\/a>\u201d When Charles Polzin asked the same question, Joshua Binns started shooting.<\/p>\n<p>In asking for maximum sentences, Joe Morales, chief deputy district attorney, acknowledged the 4\/20 festival taking place just two blocks from the courthouse.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSend a message, a deterrent to Denver, including the ones up the street right now: Don\u2019t engage in this behavior,\u201d Morales said. \u201cYou shouldn\u2019t engage on either sides of these transactions because you\u2019re going to lose your life or lose your freedom.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s hearing was rife with drama as Denver Sheriff Department deputies had to separate the defendants in the courtroom, taking the unusual step of having Arellano sitting at the prosecutor\u2019s table and the Binn brothers sitting on opposite ends of the jury box.<\/p>\n<p>Joshua Binns was removed from the room before the hearing because of an outburst. He returned wearing chains around his waist.<\/p>\n<p>Two people left the courtroom midhearing and got into a fight in the hallway, leading deputies to rush out to stop it. When the hearing ended, Robbins ordered the audience to leave in separate groups, and deputies were deployed in the hallways and plaza outside the Lindsey-Flanigan Courthouse.<\/p>\n<p>Tears fell as the Polzins told the judge how their lives had been wrecked by the shooting. They spoke of alcohol and drug abuse and suicide attempts caused by their grief. Josh Polzin, a heroin addict, relapsed after the shooting. On Friday, he testified while wearing an orange Larimer County jail jumpsuit.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"related right\" \/>\n<p>\u201cI sat there and watched as the defendant, Josh Binns, shot Dad with no hesitation,\u201d said Josh Polzin, who blames himself for the crime.<\/p>\n<p>When Joshua Binns apologized to the Polzin family, he took responsibility but said he did not know why he pulled the trigger. He told Josh Polzin it wasn\u2019t his fault.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was me,\u201d Joshua Binns said. \u201cI am to blame. I\u2019m sorry, bro.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Polzins described a husband and father who had a boisterous laugh, who was willing to get up in the middle of the night to fix a broken car and who would take in his children\u2019s friends if they needed a place to spend the night. Courtney Polzin said her father was the kind of man who rode motorcycles but would carry her glittery gym bag at cheer competitions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey took the person who made my family a family,\u201d Courtney Polzin said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Joshua Binns, Seth Binns, Ryan Arellano and Mackenzie Fay sentenced to lengthy prison terms for their role in botched marijuana robbery in Elrya Swansea neighborhood that left Charles Polzin dead and his son, Josh Polzin, injured. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6811,6812,7540,1345,6874,306,7642,7643,6813,77,6814,9,7503,5019,7644,7504,1,3,61,1736],"tags":[6816,6817,7541,3915,6876,2884,7645,7646,6818,2655,6819,7506,5022,7647,7507],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8217\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cannitrol.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}