LARIMER COUNTY, Colo. — The Larimer County Sheriff's Office (LCSO) said Thursday it was looking for more victims of a Loveland man charged last year in the sexual assault of a 16-year-old girl in 2019.
Andrew Francisco Koprowski, 31, was charged in October in an incident involving a teenage girl who reported the assault in 2019 to a Fort Collins Police school resource officer, LCSO says in a news release.
The girl told police she met with Koprowski in September 2019 in unincorporated Larimer County to buy marijuana, the release says.
"Investigators were able to obtain evidence to corroborate what the victim reported" and arrested Koprowski on Sept. 29, 2021.
He was charged with:
- Two counts of sexual assault
- Unlawful sexual contact
- Second-degree kidnapping
- Contributing to the delinquency of a minor
- Distribution of marijuana to a minor
The victim told police she made contact with Koprowski through Snapchat and met him Sept. 25, 2019, in the 400 block of North Highway 287. When she got into his vehicle, he grabbed her arm to keep her there, drove a short distance to a more secluded area and assaulted her, LCSO said.
Almost two years passed from the report of the assault to the arrest.
When asked why it took so long, a LCSO spokesperson said on Thursday, "The biggest delay was receiving the phone records and evidence from third parties and reviewing it, trying to identify additional victims."
But according to the arrest affidavit in the case, the assigned detective got phone records from AT&T that included location data, text message, data connections and GPS information in May 2020.
The detective was then transferred to another division and "no analysis of the AT&T records or additional follow up for the investigation was completed between May 2020 and June 2021," the affidavit says.
The case was assigned to a new investigator on June 4, 2021, who re-interviewed the victim, found that Koprowki bought marijuana from a Fort Collins store on the day of the assault, and analyzed cellphone data to determine Koprowki traveled from the marijuana store to the area of the assault at the time that the victim said it happened, the affidavit shows.
Koprowki's bail was set at $50,000. He posted bond and was released Oct. 5, LCSO said. He is scheduled to be in court for a disposition hearing Jan. 20, according to court records.
Investigators think there might be other victims who had contact with Koprowski through social media to buy marijuana or other products.
LCSO asked anyone with information to contact Investigator Stephen Gates at 970-498-5169.
9NEWS reporter Janet Oravetz contributed to this report.
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