There were 37 non-parking traffic offenses, five city ordinance violations, eight miscellaneous violations and two traffic parking tickets.

On May 1, 2016 a Nederland Police Department officer responded to assist a Boulder County Sheriff’s deputy in a probable overdose situation. He was told one of the people inside the residence was administering CPR to the patient.

When the officer arrived, the victim was standing up and refusing treatment by the EMTs of the Nederland Fire Protection District. She was ultimately transported to the hospital. A witnesses said that the patient was a heroin and ICE user, that he went to the store and when he returned she was passed out.

The man said he brought the woman to Colorado to get medicine for cancer. The man said he is a transient and that his truck broke down in Boulder and he was going to get help fixing it. The officer reports that the story didn’t make sense, and he believed the couple had brought heroin up from Boulder. The officer noticed a car in front of the residence and when he checked the license plate, he learned the vehicle was owned by a rental car company and was two weeks overdue. They wanted it back but did not want to report it as stolen. The company said a woman had rented it and she should be the only one driving it. All of the people involved were cleared for warrants and one of them was released from the BCSO a few days ago.

On May 2, 2016 a man came into the NPD to report an incident of arson, saying he sold a house to another person who had it on the market and was finishing up a few items. He became the caretaker until the sale was final, checking on the house frequently. At noon on May, 2, 2016 the officer met the man, along with NVFD fire investigator who stated there were signs of a fire in the shed on the property and he found footprints around the shed. There were no footprints around the outside of the house nor were there any signs of an attempted entry.

The officer talked to a neighbor who said he saw a man packing up a tent near the property on a CDOT right of way. The officer told the caretaker that it did not appear as if someone was intentionally trying to burn the shed he was staying in, that it could have been a warming fire.

On May 3, 2016 a BCSO deputy was dispatched to a resident on the report of a trespasser. A Nederland officer, being closer, assisted with the call. The officer saw a vehicle in the driveway when another vehicle pulled up and two young females got out with a man wearing a black hoodie. He had long brown hair and a full beard. The trio entered the residence.

When the Ned officer knocked on the door, he was invited in by a woman who said her ex-husband was extremely intoxicated, no longer lived at the address and she didn’t want him there. When the officer asked the man if he wanted to talk, the man said it wasn’t his business. Then he said he just wanted a chance to make it right with his family and he usually doesn’t drink.

The officer asked him to step outside. The man put on his shoes and walked out the door, pulling it shut behind him, locking the officer inside the house. The officer found him 50 feet north of the house in the fetal position. When the BCSO officer arrived the man said he wanted to stay at the house and work out their problems but was told he could not. He said he wanted to get a room at Ameristar so the deputy put him in the back of the patrol car and headed to Black Hawk.

About 20 minutes later, the officer was dispatched back to the woman’s house who said the suspect had returned and was driving away. As they neared the location, they saw a vehicle driving towards them about 50 miles an hour with its high beams on in a 30 mph. The officer turned around, trying to catch up with it and saw the vehicle drift into oncoming traffic and then crash into some boulders. When the officer went to check the vehicle, the driver was gone.

The deputy arrived and saw the man trying to hide. He was placed under arrest and transported to the BC Jail. He returned to the house and the woman said she thought he needed some kind of help. The officer put a protection order in place because of the Domestic Violence charge. He was also charged with DUI and trespassing.

On May 2, 2016 a local student called the NPD asking for an officer to come speak with his mother who was upset about an incident with her husband. The suspect had been previously arrested for Domestic Violence and Harassment. The woman said her husband had just finished up with the courts for his last DV arrest and the Protective Order had been lifted, but he had been coming home drunk every night.

That morning the man woke up and made derogatory statements about her family and called her names.

He wouldn’t let her leave and she threatened to call the police. He took the phone from her and threw it down. Officers were unable to locate the suspect that night or the next day. He finally was found in a local residence and taken into custody. During the ride the man said he was the victim, that she started the confrontations and harasses him.

The suspect accused his wife of hitting him in the nose and throwing a cup at him. The officer talked to the couple’s children who said they were afraid. The woman did not report him as violating the Protection Order.

On May 7, 2016 an officer on regular patrol was in the Chipeta Park area when he saw a vehicle heading west on Lakeview Drive with different license plate tags in the front and back. When stopped, the driver said he had just purchased the vehicle before driving to Colorado. The officer recognized the man in the back seat on a previous arrest. When asked for identification, the man refused to give it at first. When the officer ran the ID through Boulder County Dispatch, it was discovered that the man had a warrant out for his arrest in Durango. He was taken into custody and transported to Boulder County Jail.

On May 15, 2016 a Ned office responded to a report of a domestic violence and the woman was waiting in the parking lot of the shopping center. The woman was crying and said her boyfriend was the father of her child and they were in a verbal argument and she was leaving with her child who was sitting in the back seat. She said the man threw rocks at her car as they left and chipped the window.

The officer went to talk to the man who said he didn’t want to talk about the incident, but that he has a difficult time dealing with anger. The officer asked the suspect to step out of the house and when the man said he didn’t want to, the officer pulled him out and placed him under arrest for Domestic Violence, Criminal Mischief and Child Abuse. The BCSO deputy transported the man to the BC Jail and the Ned officer told the woman she would be contacted by a victim advocate in the morning.

On May 14, 2016 an officer on patrol saw a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed heading east on Hwy. 119. Radar indicated a speed of 51 mph, as well as speeding up and slowing down. The officer hit his lights and siren and the vehicle accelerated. The officer lost sight of the vehicle but saw a cloud of dust at the intersection of a gravel driveway. A resident said a car had just driven up the driveway which ended in a dead end. He saw three people, one of whom was the driver. The driver said he tried to elude the officer because he didn’t want a ticket.

The suspect said he had broken up with his girlfriend and he had no excuse not to stop. His vehicle had fresh body damage that occurred while he tried to elude the officer. Because he was compliant once he had stopped, the officer charged him with reckless driving rather than the felony charge of Vehicular Eluding.