Ex-Denver cop Bini charged in second sex assault case
By Brian Maass, CBS4 NEWS
Published September 17, 2008 at 6:37 p.m.
Joe Bini retired with a medical disability.
A controversial former Denver police officer has been charged in a second sexual assault case since his retirement in 2007.
Arapahoe County authorities charged Joe Bini last month with a misdemeanor count of unlawful sexual contact in connection with an August 2007 incident. The case has remarkable similarities to a case in Denver this year that led to felony criminal charges against the former officer.
Bini became known after he engineered a no-knock drug raid in 1999 that led to police shooting and killing Ismael Mena, a Mexican immigrant.
Bini's faulty search warrant had sent SWAT team officers to the wrong house. He was charged with felony perjury but later accepted a misdemeanor plea bargain and returned to the police force.
The 39-year-old Bini retired from the department last year, citing a medical disability suffered on the job. He has faced a rocky road since then.
In May, Bini was arrested and charged with multiple counts for allegedly paying $20 to two juvenile girls to have sex while he watched. The girls say the incident happened at a GNC store on the 16th Street Mall where Bini worked. The store is owned by Bini's wife.
Now, Bini is being charged in a case with striking parallels.
On Aug. 21, 2007, a young woman went to the GNC nutrition store at 5616 S. Gibraltar Way in Centennial, also owned by Bini's wife.
According to a police report, the woman was shopping for diet pills. She said Bini, who was running the operation, told her "she was a beautiful girl" and offered her a job on the spot, telling her to return the next day with a resume. The woman told police she went back the next morning and that Bini was the only one in the store.
According to the Arapahoe County Sheriff's Office offense report, Bini told her he wanted to interview her in a back room. She said Bini started off professionally but then told her she was "so hot" and said, "I swear, if you work here, we're going to end up sleeping together."
A few minutes later, she said Bini hugged her and put his hands on her behind. She said she told him that was not OK. According to the woman, Bini then started to reach down the front of her pants. She said she pushed him away.
As the woman began to leave, she said Bini made a number of overtly sexual comments to her.
While the woman reported the alleged incident within days, Arapahoe County Sheriff Grayson Robinson said she decided not to pursue the case. But Robinson said she reconsidered after learning about the alleged 2008 incident at the GNC store in Denver.
Phone messages left for Bini were not returned.
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September 17, 2008
7:27 p.m.
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EZBakeOven writes:
Ugh. What a pig!
September 17, 2008
7:40 p.m.
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Keith43 writes:
He needs to be pulled off the street and locked up for a long time.
September 17, 2008
9:51 p.m.
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D_Dude writes:
Awful, disgusting, and downright disturbing. In other words par for the course for a former member of the Keystone Cops, i.e., The Denver Police Department.
September 17, 2008
11:11 p.m.
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GuyFawkes writes:
If the Denver prosecutor had done his job correctly and sought the felony perjury conviction against Bini, the only sexual assault he would be involved in today would be his bigger cellmate cuddling up to this piece of Denver's finest filth. Who was the DA that let him off the hook?
As long as Americans are dumb enough to believe that the police state is a good thing, the rights granted by the Bill of Rights and defended by the lives of Marines, soldiers and sailors over the past 232 years will just disappear. No rational excuses can justify this coward being on the streets. Plain and simple, the DA protected a dirty cop and this is the result. Who was that DA?
September 17, 2008
11:27 p.m.
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bira44 writes:
You know he's going to use the steroid defense, he's probably hopped up on body building supplements and will use that to see if another DA will let him off.
September 18, 2008
6:55 a.m.
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sheepherder writes:
What a disgrace to police everywhere. Given, he's not a cop anymore...thank god!
September 18, 2008
8:46 a.m.
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blacksho89 writes:
GuyFawkes: You are wrong. Bill "Ag Trespass" Ritter would NEVER defend a dirty cop!
See http://denverda.org/News_Release/Offi...
September 18, 2008
8:49 a.m.
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CapnPoon writes:
GuyFawkes, that DA was none other than our Governor, Bill "If It's Blue, No Wrong Can It Do" Ritter. Yeppers, 80+ Denver officer involved shootings during his tenure as Denver DA, 0 terminations as a result of those shootings. In other words, not one of those officers did anything wrong.....including Joe "No-Knock" Bini.
Somewhere out there is a bullet with this guys name on it. Too bad they haven't met up yet, but if he keeps sexually assaulting children, some parent is gonna put a truly justifiable end to this piece of garbage. And why aren't they shutting down his wife's businesses? Obviously, this predator is using those establishments as places to lure and assault the innocent. Complicity is compelling; anyone remember the couple who were recruiting models on the 16th Street Mall, then drugging and raping them? Sounds eerily familiar. This chicks business has been involved in three police investigations, so why is she still open?
I hope all those cops who stood up in Bini's defense after his Mena shooting are eating a nice healthy dose of cold crow with these revelations. Way to stick up for and loose a dangerous animal onto the streets of our fair city, Denver Police Department. Be proud, as you helped a murdering child rapist walk away with his freedom and a pension for life. Oh, and keep your daughters out of the GNC stores, oinkers. Just stick to what you know and do best, covering up for scumbag police, (and ex-police) who violate the citizens you're sworn to protect.
September 18, 2008
9:12 a.m.
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GFC1 writes:
Wow, the ignorance spewed from some of you is almost laughable. Many of you need to read up on facts, laws and procedures before you spout off about what you do not know. The guy has some serious issues, leave it at that and move on to your next conspiracy theories, dumbarses.
September 18, 2008
9:54 a.m.
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DahmersCookbook writes:
Cop lovers always look the other way when the 95% of the "Corporation's" employees (cops) do dirty. YES 95%!
Also RMN we NEED to see some pics of these girls in
order to make proper judgement.
September 18, 2008
10 a.m.
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CapnPoon writes:
Guess Bini thought GNC meant "Getting Nookie from Children".......
September 18, 2008
11:14 a.m.
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7_ogNiOj writes:
Where are the pig apologists? This is standard pig behavior, no surprises.
September 18, 2008
11:15 a.m.
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rightwingnut writes:
medical disability? Why are we paying for this scum?
September 18, 2008
11:23 a.m.
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BroncoRick69 writes:
Ha. Actually He's a crony of ex-Guv Owens. No surprise.
September 18, 2008
11:35 a.m.
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sheepherder writes:
7...he's not a cop anymore. He's just a citizen pervert like yourself.
Capnpoon, that has to be one of the stupidest rants I have ever read. I think a few brain cells were killed in the process.
Dahmer...well, your posts are always just non-sensical.
September 18, 2008
1:24 p.m.
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CapnPoon writes:
C'mon, sheepherder, we all know you're a boy in blue, so tell the truth: someone READ my post to you, right?
September 18, 2008
2:14 p.m.
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sheepherder writes:
Not even worth a response capnpoon...just ignorant.
September 18, 2008
2:49 p.m.
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fastnloose writes:
According to the article"he told her if she worked there they would end up sleeping together". Then a few minutes later he grabbed her.Question: why did she hang around for a "few" minutes after hearing a rude statement like that? I'm not saying this is her fault,but what did she think was going to happen after a statement like that?
September 18, 2008
2:57 p.m.
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sheepherder writes:
I'm thinkning capnpoon's time in Canyon City has soured him.
September 18, 2008
3:48 p.m.
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CapnPoon writes:
Carp, cops and their apologists: bottom feeders that spend the majority of their time in the muddy slime, but WILL rise to any bait when it's presented.
It'd be refreshing to see one cop or apologist for them just own up to what this guy is. Instead, they attack our intelligence and opinions, thereby defending the actions of a pederast, thief, perjurer and all around imbecile. Instead of saying, "Hey, you guys are idiots, I don't normally agree with you, but this dude is scum and should be removed from society," you fall back on the old standard, "Uh, yer posts is STOOPID, stoopid!" and then expect everyone to fall in line. Probably does wonders on your family, not gonna work so well in a public forum, sheepdip. Got kids? Gonna have Bini over to babysit them anytime soon? Didn't think so. Therefore, your above posts do far more to prove my point than any evidence I could get my hands on: cops will defend their own to the end, no matter what the crime or how many innocents get booty rammed in the process. So, sheepherder, why don't you change your screen name to "waitingtohearthepop". You might get lucky one day and hear it!
Nice intellectual Canon City comment, too. Did you learn that in the academy, or third grade? REAAAAL professional. But then again, what can you expect from a flatfoot?
September 18, 2008
4:46 p.m.
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GuyFawkes writes:
Just remember the next time you sit on jury duty, the word of the cop testifying should not be given any more credit for its validity than the word of the arrested. Cops will lie, and they do so with impunity knowing they will get immunity from the political community.
The police state is not really a state in which to live. It is a state of disrepair.