Overview
- Deputy Alexander Zwinck was placed on three weeks of unpaid leave and removed from the Western Colorado Task Force after relaying 19-year-old Caroline Dias-Goncalves’s identifying information in a multiagency Signal chat
- Deputy Erik Olson received two weeks of unpaid leave and was reassigned to patrol duties for his role in sharing data that led to Dias-Goncalves’s ICE arrest
- Sgt. Joe LeMoine was suspended without pay for two days, Lt. David Holdren was reprimanded and Capt. Curtis Brammer received documented counseling following the administrative review
- Sheriff Rowell apologized to Dias-Goncalves, acknowledged his office’s part in her 15-day federal detention and asked Attorney General Phil Weiser to withdraw the lawsuit against Deputy Zwinck
- On July 28, the Department of Justice amended its federal challenge to Colorado’s SB25-276 to include the AG’s suit against Zwinck and launched a patterns-and-practices probe into local immigration-enforcement cooperation