Castle Rock Business Figure Charged With Stealing Hundreds of Thousands From Victims

A Castle Rock widow watched her house go into foreclosure after Lisa Lynette Miles-Bringham, the woman who had just taken over her finances following her husband's death, allegedly drained nearly $500,000 from her accounts through a series of transfers and withdrawals traced directly into accounts Miles controlled. Prosecutors moved forward with criminal theft charges against Miles on March 31, setting the stage for proceedings in Douglas County District Court.

Miles had been one of the more visible faces in Castle Rock's business community. She operated Burly Brewing Company on Atchison Way, won a formal recognition from the Castle Rock Chamber of Commerce, sponsored lunch for Leadership Douglas County events, and showed up at charitable fundraisers around town. That public profile, investigators and neighbors now say, provided the cover for a pattern of financial exploitation targeting people who trusted her.

The charging documents describe at least two separate theft cases. In the more consequential one, Miles allegedly obtained what an acquaintance described as "100% power of attorney" within three days of a client's husband dying, then systematically emptied the surviving widow's joint accounts. Mike Hurdle, who originally introduced Miles to the Castle Rock business networking circuit and to the brewery owner who later sold her Burly Brewing, said he tracked the damage himself after the widow stopped responding to his warnings. "I got involved in it and said, give me all your bank accounts. And I tracked all the money. All of her accounts, all the withdrawals coming out of her joint account, into Lisa's account, transfers going over hundreds of thousands of dollars," Hurdle said. The widow's home ultimately went into foreclosure.

In a second case, an affidavit alleges Miles stole thousands of dollars in cash and gold coins from an older Castle Rock couple whose home she was cleaning.

Hurdle said he felt a personal obligation to act because he was the one who vouched for Miles in the first place. "Everything you're doing here is because I brought you here. So now I'm like, I've got to do whatever I can to stop it," he said. His wife and he had known Miles as a friend before the falling out. "When we were friends with her, she was very sweet, she was so helpful, very charismatic, just somebody that you felt like she would give you the shirt off of her back," Hurdle said. A former friend offered a starker assessment to investigators: Miles was "cold and calculating."

Public records show Miles has a prior criminal history that was not always visible to people who later placed financial trust in her; a February 2026 booking in Douglas County records reflects earlier charges before the more recent theft case became public. Burly Brewing itself closed and was placed into receivership in 2024.

The case centers on a failure of safeguards around estate and fiduciary responsibilities for vulnerable adults, a concern prosecutors and community members have raised as the charges became public. Victims seeking information about potential restitution claims, or anyone who believes they may have been affected, should check the Douglas County District Court docket for upcoming hearing dates and contact the Douglas County Sheriff's Office or the Colorado Bureau of Investigation with tips. Miles is presumed innocent until proven guilty.