Colorado Man Legally Changed Name to Bond Villain Le Chiffre

A Colorado Springs man legally modified his identify to match the James Bond villain from “Casino Royale” earlier than beating his 83-year-old father to demise with a baseball bat, police stated Friday throughout a court docket listening to.

Jean-Joseph Danger Le Chiffre (born Patrick Joseph Sandoval) pleaded not responsible to first-degree homicide and different expenses within the July 2020 killing of Gilbert Sandoval, in accordance with the Denver Gazette. Judge Chad Miller ordered Le Chiffre held with out bond forward of a deliberate trial.

According to authorities, the 55-year-old former lawyer conspired along with his mom, Gabriella Sandoval, to kill his father (from whom she was estranged) after studying that Gilbert deliberate to slash his son’s inheritance.

“She was tired of how Gilbert treated her, was part of it, and the other part was financial — that Mr. Le Chiffre had been cut out of the will,” Detective Marcus Lehmkuhl testified, including that she lured her estranged husband to her house and despatched him into the basement the place her son ambushed him with a Louisville slugger that was discovered on the scene.

Gabriella Sandoval initially advised police that she had killed her husband after he attacked her with a knife — however Lehmkuhl stated she was so frail that officers needed to escort her round the home. And prosecutors stated she recanted her self-defense claims in a deposition final August.

That forged suspicion on Le Chiffre, whose chosen identify matches the Bond unhealthy man performed by Mads Mikkelsen within the 2006 movie “Casino Royale” in addition to the 1953 Ian Fleming novel that kicked off the Bond collection.