But just because Harlan got out of prison didn’t mean he went free.
As soon as Harlan was discharged from the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution in Florence, authorities transported him to the Larimer County Sheriff’s Department, where he was taken into custody and charged with theft. The case presumably stems from a 2003 incident in which Harlan allegedly nabbed a motorcycle from Thunder Mountain Harley Davidson in Fort Collins. For that, he was sentenced to eight years with the Department of Corrections, but the sentence was suspended provided he abide by the stipulations of the federal charge associated with the post-office bust. Since he violated his federal parole, that suspended sentence was revoked.
And other authorities are waiting. “When they [Larimer County] are done with him, he will come over to us,” says Denver police spokesman Sonny Jackson. “Then we will charge him with several counts of felony theft.” That case will revolve around Harlan's escapades with at Harlan21, for which he hired more than a dozen people who never got paid and used bad checks to pay for a variety of goods and services, according to many people. There are also warrants out for his arrest in Adams and Arapahoe counties, where he purportedly carried out other permutations of his unending con game.
“He’s gotta face the music in each jurisdiction,” says Jackson. “I guess everyone is getting in line.” Harlan always wanted the attention that came with being a Broncos player, but this probably isn’t the attention he was hoping for. – Joel Warner
