A former Denver bar owner convicted in November of multiple counts of sexual assault was sentenced Friday to 11 years in prison.

Jay Bianchi, who owned Sancho’s Broken Arrow, Be On Key Psychedelic Ripple and Quixote’s True Blue and co-owned So Many Roads Brewery, was convicted on Nov. 14 of three counts of sexual assault and two counts of unlawful sexual contact. The convictions were connected to Bianchi’s conduct with three women between 2020 and 2024 at two of the bars he owned.

“As a Denver jury found, Jay Bianchi was a serial sexual predator – over several years, he sexually assaulted women who were physically incapable of defending themselves,” District Attorney John Walsh said in a release. “As a result of today’s sentence, Bianchi is paying the price for his terrible actions and we hope that his victims can draw comfort from that fact.”

According to an arrest affidavit, one of the victims went to Sancho’s on Halloween night 2020 with a friend. The victim told police she drank a few beers spread out over a few hours before going to Sancho’s. The victim said, according to the affidavit, that she had one beer at Sancho’s.

For more on this story and others, please visit The Denver Gazette’s news partner 9News.