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Colorado Senate candidate charged with felony child neglect after daughter nearly drowns in Florida pool, police say
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Frederick Alfred, Jr., the sole Republican candidate for Senate District 21 in the June primary and November general election, was arrested in Key West, Florida, late Monday night. Alfred, 38, was charged with two counts of felony child neglect and is scheduled to be arraigned on May 5. Alfred did not respond to an email…
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DougCo deputy fired after DUI, careless driving arrest
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A Douglas County Sheriff’s deputy was fired Friday after he was arrested by Parker Police the previous weekend. Andrew Sanders faces charges of driving under the influence, careless driving, assault on a police officer and obstruction in relation to a traffic stop just before 8 p.m. Feb. 7, according to a Friday news release from…
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Two Denver sheriff’s deputies arrested on suspicion of assaulting at-risk adult
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Two Denver sheriff’s deputies were arrested Thursday on suspicion of felony assault of an at-risk adult. Sgt. Carla Gentempo and Deputy Jason Gentempo were arrested by Denver police on suspicion of third-degree assault, a class six felony, according to a Thursday news release from the Denver Sheriff’s Department. The charges appear to stem from an…
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Denver man arrested after viral ‘No Kings’ rally tripping incident
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Editor’s note: The Denver Police Department released a statement Tuesday that Jose Cardenas was not the man who allegedly tripped the screaming man. Cardenas was allegedly the suspect who stole the sunglasses and was arrested on suspicion of theft. The alleged tripper is still unidentified. The Denver Police Department arrested a man in connection to…
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Judge refuses to toss $500,000 jury verdict against Denver officer over wrongful arrest at DIA
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A federal judge upheld a jury’s $500,000 verdict and finding of liability against a Denver police officer whose faulty probable cause statement led to the wrongful arrest of a man at Denver International Airport. After a jury earlier this year determined Officer Karl Coleman acted maliciously when he erroneously wrote on legal paperwork that Juan…
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Judge finds no constitutional violation for man detained at Aurora mall, grants immunity to officers
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Aurora police officers did not violate a man’s constitutional rights by detaining him for 16 minutes to issue him a no-trespassing order, a federal judge ruled after finding no similar cases had proclaimed such conduct clearly unconstitutional. William Montgomery sued four police officers for allegedly violating the Fourth Amendment’s prohibition on unreasonable searches and seizures.…
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Colorado Springs officers used reasonable force in pointing gun at man, 10th Circuit finds
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Colorado Springs police acted reasonably in pointing their guns at a man and warning they would shoot him, the federal appeals court based in Denver has ruled, citing officer safety concerns. Michael James Bosman claimed officers had used excessive force tantamount to an arrest when they ordered him out of a vehicle at gunpoint without…
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Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters faces arrest warrant on obstruction charge after fracas in bagel shop
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An arrest warrant on a misdemeanor charge of obstructing a peace officer was issued Wednesday for Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters, who is accused of interfering with authorities attempting to serve a search warrant on her a day earlier at a bagel shop in Grand Junction. Her legal team, in response, said law enforcers used “excessive…
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Court recommends dismissing claims against top Mesa County judge for prolonged detention
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A federal magistrate judge recommended dismissing the claims against Mesa County’s top judge over his alleged role in a woman’s two-week detention without bail, a right guaranteed in Colorado’s constitution. At the same time, U.S. Magistrate Judge Nina Y. Wang on Jan. 27 recommended against dismissing one of Michelle Reynolds’ constitutional claims against the sheriffs of…
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Federal judge declines to drop free speech lawsuit against Colorado Springs police
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It is possible that Colorado Springs officers violated a man’s First Amendment rights when they arrested him for screaming obscenities at police, a federal judge decided. As a result, the civil lawsuit from Michael Sexton will proceed, based in part on one officer’s admission that he arrested Sexton simply for saying the F-word repeatedly. “Under…