Aisner sentenced to probation
Michael Aisner was sentenced to house arrest, probation and jail Friday for having child porn and also secretly taping guests while they were showering at his north Boulder home.
Aisner was sentenced to six months of in-home detention for one count of invasion of privacy and eight years of sex offender intensive supervised probation and 90 days of jail for one count of sexual exploitation of a child.
Attorneys agreed at a hearing in July that Aisner, 71, would serve the home detention sentence first because of concerns about COVID-19 exposure at the Boulder County Jail.
Aisner will also have to register as a sex offender.
“This successful outcome is the result of a thorough investigation by law enforcement,” Boulder District Attorney Michael Dougherty said in a statement. “Despite the defendant’s age and lack of a criminal record, these convictions and his having to register as a sex offender is definitely appropriate because of the harm to the victims. These types of cases are a priority for our office and this community.”
According to an arrest affidavit, a man told investigators in June 2019 that he went on a couch-surfing app and found Aisner’s address on North Cedar Brook Road just northwest of Boulder.
The man said one day Aisner encouraged him to use Aisner’s personal shower. While the man was preparing to take a shower, he noticed what appeared to be a “semi-hidden” mini spy camera pointed at the shower.
Detectives applied for a warrant at the address and seized the camera and Aisner’s computer, and forensic specialists were able to recover more than 100 video files, seven of which depicted males who were naked from the waist down entering the shower.
In addition to those videos, the affidavit states there were dozens of other clips of Aisner placing the camera in the shower and then removing it after the guests were done showering. Another video captures Aisner asking someone how to delete and overwrite files from the camera.
Detectives later received tips from several anonymous callers that Aisner had child pornography on his computer and a further search of the device uncovered pornographic videos featuring boys under the age of 16.
Aisner was the race director of the Coors International Bicycle Classic.