Sex Offender Acquitted Of All Charges In False Reporting Case
BOULDER, Colo. (CBS4)- The former youth hockey coach and sex offender accused of stabbing himself and then making false reports to police was acquitted of all charges in Wednesday.
The jury in Boulder County found Zachary Meints not guilty on all four counts of false reporting and one count of attempting to influence a public official.
Detectives claim Meints made up the two attacks. On March 31, 2014 he told police he was stabbed outside his parents' home in Boulder County.
On April 8, 2014 he told police he was stabbed in the stomach on Pine Street in Boulder.
Meints was serving a 10-year intensive sex offender probation sentence when the attacks happened after he pleaded guilty in May 2012 to Internet sexual exploitation and admitted to sending thousands of sexual messages to children.