{"id":1318473,"date":"2020-02-28T17:09:49","date_gmt":"2020-02-29T00:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=994121"},"modified":"2020-02-28T17:09:49","modified_gmt":"2020-02-29T00:09:49","slug":"rifle-woman-facing-murder-charge-in-daughters-death-accused-of-breaking-into-exs-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/rifle-woman-facing-murder-charge-in-daughters-death-accused-of-breaking-into-exs-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Rifle woman facing murder charge in daughter\u2019s death accused of breaking into ex\u2019s home"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure class=\"wp-block-image p402_hide\">\n<div class=\"caption-container\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"817\" height=\"427\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/GettyImages-854300870.jpg\" class=\"attachment-large size-large wp-post-image\" alt srcset=\"https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/GettyImages-854300870.jpg 817w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/GettyImages-854300870-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/cdn.postindependent.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/09\/GettyImages-854300870-768x401.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 817px) 100vw, 817px\"><figcaption><strong>Judge&#8217;s gavel<\/strong><br \/><em>Getty<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>Stephanie Alvarado allegedly broke into her ex-boyfriend\u2019s home just hours before her first court appearance on charges related to the overdose death of her 5-year-old daughter.<\/p>\n<p>Alec Larson, the father of Sophia Larson, who died Dec. 11 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/three-arrested-for-death-of-5-year-old-rifle-girl\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" aria-label=\" (opens in a new tab)\">of methamphetamine intoxication<\/a>, called police after Alvarado arrived at his Carbondale home around 4 a.m. Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Larson told the Garfield County Sheriff\u2019s deputies who responded that Alvarado broke into his house, made attempts to cut her wrists, and was trying to access a gun safe, according to probable cause documents.<\/p>\n<p>At first, Alvarado let herself into the home, then after being locked out of the house, broke the door to come back inside, according to the arrest affidavit.<\/p>\n<p>Larson told police he smelled alcohol on Alvarado\u2019s breath, and other deputies observed signs of intoxication.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado head-butted Larson, and attempted to hit him several times, but officers could not observe any injuries to his face.<\/p>\n<p>She eventually left with Larson\u2019s keys, but Larson said the car could not start so he was not worried she would drive away.<\/p>\n<p>The only statement Alvarado made to Garfield County sheriff\u2019s deputies who arrested her was that she did not assault Larson, but he hit her.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado was with another person who did not enter the house and was not involved in the case of Sophia Larson\u2019s death.<\/p>\n<p>The new charges include second-degree burglary, first-degree criminal trespass, violation of bail bond condition, misdemeanor assault and criminal mischief.<\/p>\n<p>In Colorado, second-degree burglary is a class-three felony if a person enters a dwelling with intent to commit a crime against a person or property.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado was out of custody on $30,000, after being arrested for child abuse resulting in death, a class two felony the same level as manslaughter.<\/p>\n<p>At the Wednesday hearing, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/murder-charges-for-rifle-mother-of-girl-who-died-from-meth-overdose\/\">prosecutors raised the charges<\/a> against Stephanie to first-degree murder, for extreme indifference to human life and causing the death of someone under the age of 12.<\/p>\n<p>Alvarado\u2019s previous $30,000 bond was revoked, and the court set the new bond at $1 million.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors in court Wednesday also asked for a mandatory protection order to \u201cprevent the actions of (Tuesday) night, where she did allegedly assault one of the individuals on the protection order,\u201d chief deputy district attorney Steve Mallory said.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"mailto:tphippen@postindependent.com\">tphippen@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/news\/rifle-woman-facing-murder-charge-in-daughters-death-accused-of-breaking-into-exs-home\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Judge&#8217;s gavelGetty Stephanie Alvarado allegedly broke into her ex-boyfriend\u2019s home just hours before her first court appearance on charges related to the overdose death of her 5-year-old daughter. Alec Larson, the father of Sophia Larson, who died Dec. 11 of methamphetamine intoxication, called police after Alvarado arrived at his Carbondale home around 4 a.m. Wednesday. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1318473","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-19 14:01:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1318473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1318473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1318473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1318473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1318473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}