Tuesday
Eight CU students have been booked into jail as part of a Boulder Police Department sweep of underage drinkers with outstanding warrants.
According to the Boulder PD blotter and Boulder County Jail records, a total of 13 people had been arrested by Tuesday on warrants connected with underage drinking. Eight of the 13 arrestees showed up on the CU website as students. Five arrests, including two students, were announced on the blotter on Tuesday morning. The arrests are part of a warrant round-up first announced by Boulder PD in an April 8 press release.
Boulder PD spokeswoman Sarah Huntley has refused to give any time frame for when the round-up is taking place.
“We don’t want people who are wanted to know when we are looking for them,” Huntley said on April 9. “We are encouraging people to resolve these outstanding warrants by the end of this week.”
Huntley said that the Boulder PD is looking for 105 such warrants.
The blotter stated on Tuesday that “additional sweeps are planned.”
The press release stated that Boulder PD is looking specifically for failure to appear or failure to comply warrants connected to underage alcohol consumption cases. Anyone with such a warrant can turn themselves in to the Boulder PD station at 1805 33rd St. or call the municipal court at 303-441-3030 to find out if they have one.
“We’re actually going out and actively looking for people,” Huntley said. “We’ll also check their home address which you usually will have to tell the court at some point. We may also check family members’ houses.”
Sophomore environmental studies major Erin Kinney, 19, was arrested at her home on Tuesday as part of the round-up.
“I thought it was a bunch of bullshit,” Kinney said. “I mixed up my court dates last week so it wasn’t like I was trying to run from it or anything.”
Kinney said she does not know if she will face stiffer charges as a result of the arrest.
“Nobody knew what was going on, including the cops,” Kinney said. “They just kept repeating they’re only there for an arrest warrant”.
Kinney said that among the things the police could not tell her was if she was going to have to stay in jail overnight, adding that she did not, “but I was there for, like, five hours just for them to fingerprint me and charge me, like, $60 for them to fingerprint me.”
All other arrestees could either not be reached for comment or declined to do so.
The blotter also stated that an armed robbery occurred on 8:10 p.m. Tuesday evening at Boulder Gas, 2700 Baseline Rd. “A lone male suspect, dressed all in black, showed a handgun and demanded money,” according to the blotter. The robber walked out of Boulder Gas, headed Eastbound and escaped. No other information was available, and the case is still under investigation.
Monday
A couple were arrested Monday morning after a fight over a dog, which also led to a cruelty to animals case.
According to a police report, police arrived to an apartment near 29th Street and Aurora Avenue after hearing about a man and woman yelling at each other. Sophomore environmental design major Abby Toll, 20, and her boyfriend, junior history major Bryan Beck were found arguing in Beck’s apartment.
Police learned that Beck’s eight-month-old dog Rex had been at the center of the couple’s argument. Beck and Toll told officers that Rex had recently trashed Beck’s apartment and bit Toll on the arm, giving her a Staph infection which developed into MERSA. Toll wanted Beck to get rid of Rex.
While the police officers were in the apartment, one of them heard a noise in the kitchen. In the kitchen, the officers found what one of them described in the report as “a black blob plastered to the side of he kitchen refrigerator.” The officer continued that “I saw the object move just a bit and realized it was animated… I shockingly understood that a live small dog was sealed in packing tape to the otherwise barren side of the refrigerator.”
While sitting on the kitchen floor, Toll admitted to taping Rex to the side of the fridge. “I know this looks really bad, but the dog bites. He is aggressive,” Toll was quoted as saying in the police report. Toll was also quoted as saying that Rex had been taped to the fridge “not long. Like twenty to thirty minutes. It was just until he calmed down”.
Rex also had a plastic bag around his snout and elastic hair ties around his feet, which an officer had to cut loose with his knife. He yelped with pain as be was being freed an lay motionless afterward.
According to the report, officers were told that the couple’s fight had stemmed from Toll taping Rex to the fridge. Toll gathered her clothes and tried to leave the apartment, but Beck took her cell phone, physically tried to make her stay and followed her around asking her to stay. Toll slapped Beck and threw things at him. At one point, Toll dropped her dog, a seven-month-old Chihuahua named Peanut.
Toll and Beck were both provided with victims’ rights pamphlets. Beck was arrested for domestic violence, false imprisonment and obstruction of a telephone. Toll was arrested for domestic violence, third degree assault, second degree tampering and cruelty to animals. Rex and Peanut were both taken to the Boulder Humane Society.
Saturday
A fraternity was the scene of an arrest Saturday after a student appeared to have been trying to enter using a ladder, according to a police report.
Freshman open option major Matthew Miles, 19, was spotted by police at about 12:30 a.m. on Saturday holding a ladder against the side of the Sigma Pi fraternity house at 1111 College Ave. Miles gave a fake name and date of birth which an officer tried to clear with dispatch. When told he had to stay around until the identification was cleared, Miles “shook his head in the negative and took off running Southbound.”
Miles was chased and caught along College Avenue after the officer threatened to deploy his taser. He was arrested for obstructing a peace officer, false reporting and underage consumption and possession of alcohol, since he appeared to be drunk.
A person claiming to be a fraternity member told officers that Miles had been turned away from the house earlier in the night.
“I wasn’t really climbing in,” Miles said when interviewed. “I was walking around the side of the house and I knocked over the ladder.”
Miles said that the ladder had been leaning against the side of the house. The police report also stated that he told police “that he was attempting to ‘fix’ the ladder.”
Miles said that he was issued an MIP when he was taken to the police station because “I wasn’t exactly cooperating.”
“No, I think he’s confusing me with someone else,” Miles said of the supposed fraternity member, adding that he had been to the house before but not that night.
“I don’t know anything more than what was reported in the press,” said CU greek advocate Marc Stine on Tuesday when returning a telephone call.
Contact CU Independent Staff Writer Sam Dieter at samuel.dieter@colorado.edu.
