On March 7, NPD officers were dispatched to investigate a report of a domestic dispute in progress. A man had called them saying he had locked himself in his bedroom and that a female was smashing her way through the door. When the officers arrived both the man and the woman met them and appeared to be calm.

The man said they had had a nice evening but too much to drink and became involved in an argument and the woman became confrontational so he went to the bedroom to protect himself from her.

The woman said that she had gone outside to smoke a cigarette and calm down and when she returned she found that the man had her Chihuahua dog in the bedroom with him. She began to smash the door with her shoulder because the dog was like her child to her and she couldn’t be without her.

The man said the dog had become a serious point of contention over the past couple weeks.

The door sustained about $250 worth of damage. The woman was charged with domestic violence, criminal mischief and harassment.

On March 9, a Ned officer  noticed a vehicle with a burned-out headlight and pulled the vehicle over. The driver did not have a valid driver’s license because of unpaid tickets in Oklahoma. He was taken into custody and transported to the Boulder County Jail.

On March 10, an officer was dispatched to a residence on a report of a stabbing. While the officer approached the house, dispatch was talking to the suspect who had locked himself in the bathroom and was waiting for an officer to order him out. The victim then came outside to the lower level entry.

The man said he and his partner had been drinking and arguing about the suspect’s past. The victim had blood on his pants on his upper left thigh. The wound was about one inch wide and the officer could see the muscle through the opening in the skin. The victim said he didn’t want to press charges.

The officer told him it doesn’t work like that.

The suspect was still in the bathroom on the phone with dispatch when the officer told him to put down the knife and come out. The suspect complied and was handcuffed and put it in the back of the patrol car. The officer retrieved the knife. The victim was put into an ambulance.

The suspect said the victim had yelled at him and made threatening gestures with a golf club and then hit him in the left leg with the golf club so he stabbed him and went into the bathroom. He said stabbing was necessary because he had been hurt by the suspect before.

At the hospital, the doctor signed a serious bodily injury form documenting the victim’s injuries. The suspect was taken to BCJ on charges of menacing, second degree assault, and domestic violence.

On March 10, officers were dispatched to a residence when a lawyer hired as a divorce mediator reported that one of the people had become upset and broken the glass on a picture frame. When the officers arrived at the scene the lawyer and the man met them. Three adult males were loading a U-Haul truck and one of them said an argument over a picture escalated and the picture was thrown to the floor and shattered.

The officers talked to the woman, who said the mediator was not doing her job properly and changed her mind on who was getting what. She admitted she hit the picture causing it to fall and break.

The mediator said this was the second attempt at dividing the property and she had been going through the items in the house and labeling with sticky notes. The couple could not agree on the photos.

The woman was taken into custody for criminal mischief and domestic violence.

On March 13, NPD officers responded to a report of an assault in progress. When they arrived at the scene there was a woman and a young girl, the woman’s daughter. The woman was muddy and had several strands of hair hanging lower than the rest, as if someone had been pulling on it. Her break smelled of alcohol and she was unsteady.

A vehicle was stopped in the road, facing the wrong way on a one-way street. The woman said she had one beer an hour ago. A breath test revealed she had a reading of .242.

The woman said she had been driving and that during an argument, the girl had been pushed from vehicle. The woman was given a roadside sobriety test and charged with DUI.

The girl was taken to the police department to wait to be picked up. The girl said the other woman pushed her out of the car while her mom was driving. She was squished next to the back seat door and the woman opened the door while the car was moving. The girl fell out and blacked out for a minute.  The girl and her sister had tried to stop their mom and the other woman from fighting. They all ran away when the police arrived.

The mother was charged with DUI, Child Abuse, Third Degree assault, DUI Per Se and Driving a Vehicle the Wrong Way on a One Street.

On March 14, a report of disturbance at the beer tent on First Street came from one of the security employees who saw male sitting at a picnic table drinking a bottle of alcohol. When the security guard told the man to throw it away, the suspect began yelling and spitting at people. He then attempted to hit one of them and he was placed in an arm bar hold until officers arrived.

The man was handcuffed. He refused to give his identity. When asked what happened, he said he was just drunk, that it wasn’t a big deal. The officers walked the man down the street away from the tent and he refused to walk and needed to be pushed forward. He resisted getting into the vehicle and needed to be forced. He was transported to the jail, charged with resisting arrest, harassment, and disorderly conduct.

On March 18, a Gilpin County Dispatcher reported that a possible stolen truck driven by a female was on route to Nederland. The report said the female had used a knife in a threatening manner against the man and left in the truck. She was reported to be under the influence of alcohol and had possibly cut herself.

The Ned officer met a Boulder County Sheriff’s deputy at Hwy 72 at the same time the reported stolen truck arrived, swerving all over the road. The officer pulled her over and ordered her out of the truck. When asked how much she had to drink, she said, “Too much to be driving, enough to go to jail and get a lawyer, I guess.”

She was charged with felony menacing, DUI, and domestic violence.

On March 21, an officer on routine patrol observed two men hitchhiking on Hwy 119 eastbound and initiated a pedestrian contact. While clearing the men through BC Dispatch, he was noticed of an active warrant out of BC for one of them for failure to appear on a larceny ticket. The hitchhiker was given a ride to the Boulder County Jail.

On March 21, a resident reported that someone had thrown a stone at the window of the house which had been recently restored after a structure fire. When the officer arrived he saw that an easterly facing double glazed window had been broken by an unknown object thrown by an unknown person. The estimated cost of the damage was about $250. There are no known suspects at this time. Extra patrols will be made in the area.

On March 23, a Nederland landlord asked for a Preserve the Peace standby while she inspected her property due to concerns that there was a marijuana grow on the premises, which was not authorized by the lease agreement.

The officer and the landlord showed up together. After the landlord inspected the interior, she told the officer that there was an extensive marijuana grow in the basement and she was going to issue an eviction notice. Based on the description of the marijuana grow and the modifications to the house’s electrical system, the HVAC system and the new construction, the officer filed a code complaint with SafeBuilt.

On March 22, a Ned officer noticed a man who resembled a suspect who had a failure to appear warrant. The officer talked to the man, asking him for some identification; he had a confirmed FTA warrant from the NPD. The man was transported to the BCJ.

On March 23, a vehicle was clocked traveling 48 mph in a 25 mph on Hwy 119. When the officer made the traffic stop he discovered the driver did not have a driver’s license but did have a warrant for her arrest for failure to appear.  The woman was taken into custody and transported to BCJ.

On March 25, an NPD officer was following a vehicle that failed to yield to oncoming traffic from the right as the vehicle attempted to make a left turn from the highway. The suspect vehicle caused the other driver to stop abruptly in the middle of the highway. The officer pulled the driver over and was informed that the suspect’s driver’s license had been revoked in 2005 for alcohol convictions. He was transported to the BCJ for driving under revocation and failure to yield at an intersection.

On March 28, a vehicle traveling at an estimated speed of 45 mph in a 25 mph was pulled over and as the officer approached the vehicle, he smelled the aroma of burnt marijuana. There were at least eight people in the vehicle. None of them were wearing seat belts.

The vehicle also smelled of alcohol. The driver was found to have a cancelled/denied driver’s license and no documentation relating to the vehicle. There were opened containers of Mike’s Hard Lemonade and a bottle of Blue in the vehicle, partly consumed. The driver did not appear to be impaired but he was issued a summons for driving while license cancelled / open containers, no proof of insurance, and speeding.

On March 29, an eastbound vehicle was pulled over for speeding 40 mph in a 25 mph. The officer noticed the smell of marijuana coming from the interior of the vehicle. The woman in the front passenger seat did not have identification but when cleared through BC dispatch  a failure to appear warrant showed up from the Boulder Police Department on a bond of $385. The woman began crying saying she had never been arrested before. She was transported to BCJ.

On March 30, BC Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to an assault on Coal Creek Canyon and Ned officers assisted. Dispatch had received 911 calls from both people involved, who reported that the female living in the residence had hit the man with a baseball bat. She told dispatch she was leaving because she had an urgent matter to attend to.

The officers saw the female driving away and turned around to catch up to her. She got out of her car and began yelling about how there was an issue with National Star and the man wouldn’t get off her property. She did not listen to requests to calm down and reached into her car and pulled something out. The officers grabbed the item which turned out to be a camera from her hand and she asked the officer to turn it on and he refused. She was placed in handcuffs because she was not listening to directions. She explained that she was in foreclosure and the company was illegally taking her home from her and that a man had come to take pictures. She told him to leave and he wouldn’t, so she grabbed camera and they tussled.

She went to her front door and grabbed a bat for protection because she was intimidating and swung it to show she knew how to use it. She said she did not hit him, but he grabbed her when she was stopping him from taking pictures. She was placed under arrest for second degree assault and transported to BCJ.