The suspect in the staged hate crime to influence Mayor's racial claims around 2023 was there Yemi Mobolade in the sidewalks

Denver, Colorado (Krdo) – The man who was accused of having launched a hate crime to support Yemi Mobolade during his mayor campaign in 2023, shared shocking certificates during a federal proceedings on Thursday and claimed not only the plan, but a state representative was also there.

Derrick Bernard and his partner Ashley Blackcloud were brought to trial by Denver this week in the federal court in the city center. You will be accused of burning a wooden cross in front of a Yemi Mobolade campaign sign that contains the N-word lura to achieve sympathy for the man who tries to become the first-elected black mayor of Colorado Springs.

The process has concentrated whether the couple used the Internet and the intergovernmental trade or not to share malicious misinformation about staged hate crimes.

On Thursday, the federal prosecutor called its 13th and last witnesses of the stand, Special Agent Ethan Doherty from the FBI, who was the leadership of the federal investigation.

Doherty answered exhaustive questions at the state of the United States and through cross-experiences and discussed details from text messages and Facebook and Instagram messages that were sent between Bernard and Blackcloud.

It was shown that during the FBI's examination, they found that the hate crime was a joke by July 2023; At no point in time you have transferred this to Mobolade or his wife with whom you spoke during the investigation.

It was not until December 2024 that the FBI turned to a meeting with the now ceasement facility Mobolade, which could only find time on January 12th.

During this meeting, Agent Doherty said that Mobolade initially avoided discussing certain text messages between him and Bernard, and also explained with “120%” certainty that he never spoke to Bernard outside of messaging agents.

The FBI says that they knew that this was not true due to telephone recordings.

Doherty said it was what made them viewed that Mobolade had hit information. Just three days later, Mobolade shared screenshots of his conversations with Bernard and discussed the call he had with him.

After Doherty's intersection, the public prosecutor was resting.

Surprisingly, the Defense Council informed the judge that they would not call witnesses to the stand, although three people planned four people on Thursday and four on Friday, including the chief of police at Colorado Springs, Adrian Vasquez.

It was unclear why the defense had decided to leave their witnesses alone, even though they have made it clear that their defendants are the last people who have taken the view when they had decided.

After an hour's break for the jury, Blackcloud explained that she would not speak while Bernard said he would take the point of view even though his lawyer advises against it.

In his certificate, Bernard claimed that he met Mobolade by state representative Regina English, while she ran for her seat in the Capitol and later won.

He says from there that he would consistently provide a message before the mayor race in 2023 and wanted to provide his support to help him win as he believed in his campaign.

Bernard says that her opponent was faced with her campaign signs during the English campaign and Bernard believed that this was a factor for the English win.

Subsequently, Bernard claimed that he, English and Mobolade agreed to the idea of ​​creating a situation to improve the support for Mobolades offer for the mayor.

Bernard claimed in court that he did not know that the idea would be a cross burn in front of an unknown sign, but that he was committed to promoting the situation regardless of what it was to excite and support Mobolade.

Therefore, Bernard vehemently argued that Mobolade knew that the stunt was not a threat to him, family or his life, and even Mobolade guarantees that he was not confronted with law enforcement if he was to win the mayor's office.

Bernard said the same details were discussed with the five -minute phone call after the incident, in which he claimed that Mobolade had assured him of the agreement and he would have no problems.

The public prosecutor finally investigated Bernard and asked him to make the joke alongside his partner Blackcloud a credible threat and his direct participation in the cross.

It was shown that Bernard had written an SMS in the early morning after the alleged crime began and sent with Blackcloud, which indicated that he understood the nature of the stunt – the claim that he did not know the plan in advance.

Final arguments are set for Friday, May 23 at 8 a.m., with the jury starting afterwards.

Bernard and Blackcloud as well as another co -accused called Deanna West, who testified this week, but was not part of the legal proceedings, all charges:

• Conspiracy to commit crimes or to cheat on the United States
• The use of instruments of the intergovernmental trade in order to maliciously convey incorrect information in order to intimidate someone through fire.

Count 1 can bear a prison sentence of up to 5 years and a fine of $ 250,000 or both. It can also wear supervised publication up to 3 years.

Count 2 can mean more than 10 years in prison and no more than 250,000 US dollars or both, although no more than 3 years have been supervised.

Stay up to date with the latest local news, sports and investigations by downloading the Krdo13 app. Click here to download it from the Apple App Store. Android users can download it from Google Play here.

Stay up to date with the latest local news, sports and investigations by downloading the Krdo13 app. Click here to download it from the Apple App Store. Android users can download it from Google Play here.