Hollywood has a lot to answer for. In a macabre version of the movie, Weekend at Bernie's, two men cruised around Denver with a corpse, using their dead friend’s ATM card and visiting a strip club.
Robert Young and Mark Rubinson now face charges of abusing a corpse, identity theft and criminal impersonation. While it’s not clear how Jeffrey Jarrett died, the men were not charged in connection with his death.
In the Hollywood movie, two guys who find their boss dead at his beachfront home, cart his body around town in attempt to salvage the luxurious weekend they’d planned.
According to a police affidavit, Jarrett was unresponsive when his ‘friends’ loaded him into a car and drove to a restaurant called Teddy T's. They then spent more than an hour drinking, using Jarrett’s card to pick up the tab, leaving Jarrett in the backseat.
Rubinson and Young then drove to another restaurant, before returning to Jarrett's home. They put him in bed then went back out again to party. En route they alerted police that their friend was dead at home, but it later transpired that Jarrett was obviously dead while the three were at Teddy T's.
The two men are scheduled to appear in court in the next few weeks.
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