The Adams County Sheriff and three others won more than $5 million in the lawsuit after they were fired by the previous sheriff for supporting his election opponent.
A 29-year-old Adams County woman was convicted of second-degree murder in the 2020 shooting death of her boyfriend, according to the 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office.
A federal jury awarded over $5 million to a sheriff and three deputies who accused the former sheriff of supporting a different candidate for sheriff in 2018.
A federal jury on Tuesday awarded more than $5 million to four former high-ranking Adams County Sheriff’s Office employees who said former Sheriff Richard Reigenborn forced them to resign in 2019 because they had supported his opponent in the election, their attorney said.
A federal jury found former Adams County Sheriff Rick Reigenborn was political and punitive and violated the First Amendment when he fired four top commanders because they supported his opponent.
A woman was convicted on several charges in connection to the 2020 shooting death of her boyfriend in Adams County.
Adams County Sheriff Gene Claps and some current and former Adams deputies are suing county commissioners over what they claim were politically motivated firings by previous Sheriff Rick Reigenborn.
The Drug Enforcement Administration detained 49 people in Colorado over the weekend at what the special agent in charge called an invitation-only party.
The Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) arrested on Sunday dozens of undocumented migrants tied to Venezuelan-born gang Tren de Aragua following the raid of what authorities described as a "makeshift nightclub" in Adams County, Colorado. Several of them were taken into custody.
The Colorado man accused of striking three pedestrians in what prosecutors described as a domestic violence incident has been found guilty of several charges.
Sheriff Reigenborn admitted that he looked at who donated to the other campaigns because that’s public information,” attorney Iris Halpern said.