A manager for the overnight cleaning crews at Ball Arena sexually abused women who worked for him, leveraging his position and in some cases their immigration statuses to try to ensure the women stayed silent, Denver police allege.

Antonio Escobedo Loya, 38, a longtime employee of Premier Facility Services, routinely groped the women who worked overnight at Ball Arena, spanked them, propositioned them and forced them into unwelcome sexual situations, police allege. Women who refused his advances were fired or were moved to cleaning crews in other locations, investigators found.

Escobedo Loya is set for a preliminary hearing in Denver County Court next month on four counts of sexual contact without consent, one count of attempted sexual contact without consent, and one count of indecent e

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