colorado springs police
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City Council barely approves new Municipal Court fee to help fund police technology
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Colorado Springs took a big step to implement a new municipal court fee to help cover a portion of the Colorado Springs Police Department’s technology costs. The police technology surcharge was barely passed 5-4 by the Colorado Springs City Council at the Monday morning meeting. Some of the Council’s fiscally conservative leaders opposed the fee…
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10th Circuit agrees no immunity for Colorado Springs officers in illegal arrest lawsuit
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The federal appeals court based in Denver agreed with a trial judge on Tuesday that a jury must decide whether two Colorado Springs police officers unlawfully arrested and searched a woman who, moments prior, helped resuscitate a man who had stopped breathing from a drug overdose. Officers Christopher Pryor and Robert McCafferty argued U.S. District…
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10th Circuit agrees no immunity for Colorado Springs officers in illegal arrest lawsuit
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The federal appeals court based in Denver agreed with a trial judge on Tuesday that a jury must decide whether two Colorado Springs police officers unlawfully arrested and searched a woman who, moments prior, helped resuscitate a man who had stopped breathing from a drug overdose. Officers Christopher Pryor and Robert McCafferty argued U.S. District…
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City of Colorado Springs to defend police officers in federal civil lawsuit
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The city of Colorado Springs will represent two police officers and a former police officer in a federal civil lawsuit filed by a man who claims law enforcement officials arrested him and acted “like they were going to murder” him after he called them for help in early 2019. The City Council agreed informally on…
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Accused Planned Parenthood shooter would be competent to stand trial if forced to take medication: Psychologists
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The man accused of shooting up a Colorado Springs Planned Parenthood in 2015, killing three and injuring nine, would be competent to stand trial if he were forced to take anti-psychotic medication, two psychiatrists testified at a federal court hearing Tuesday. Robert Lewis Dear, 64, was first ruled incompetent to stand trial in Colorado Springs…
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FBI investigating ex-CEO of ComCor in alleged $1 million theft
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The FBI is investigating whether the former CEO of a Colorado Springs halfway house program stole more than $1 million from the nonprofit, which contracts with the state and El Paso County to house and rehabilitate felons, according to police reports and interviews. ComCor officials alleged to Colorado Springs police that Sean McDougall siphoned away…
