Dario
Regular Member
Greetings OCDO.
I was fishing around for some info regarding target shooting in the Boulder Ranger district of Arapahoe National Forest due to the govt shutdown (still looking) when I came across this news release from the Boulder Sheriff.
They treated it as a Search and Rescue, but after reading a drastically different interpretation (ie. panic mode) from the local paper, I became suspicious myself.
It turns out that someone called 911 when they saw a man with what a gun, which turned into a 6+ hour heavily armed manhunt. Ultimately he was found and charged by the Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks Rangers for violating their firearms policy (even though pellet guns are not technically firearms) EDIT: it is unclear at this time if he was actually charged with anything. The police blotter does not report anything other than "routine calls" for Oct. 1st. I am waiting for a return call from BPD at this time.
I spoke with Commander Prentup of the Sheriff's department and she assured me that they don't treat all open carry calls like they did this one. She made it clear that the Sheriff department understands and respects that Colorado is an open carry state and they take calls on a case by case basis but due to his "dress, demeanor and various witness statements" including the fact that they were unable to contact him initially, they decided that he might have been a legitimate threat. She was kind enough to send me a picture of the evil-looking-but-not-necessarily-deadly weapon.
I was fishing around for some info regarding target shooting in the Boulder Ranger district of Arapahoe National Forest due to the govt shutdown (still looking) when I came across this news release from the Boulder Sheriff.
They treated it as a Search and Rescue, but after reading a drastically different interpretation (ie. panic mode) from the local paper, I became suspicious myself.
It turns out that someone called 911 when they saw a man with what a gun, which turned into a 6+ hour heavily armed manhunt. Ultimately he was found and charged by the Boulder Open Space and Mountain Parks Rangers for violating their firearms policy (even though pellet guns are not technically firearms) EDIT: it is unclear at this time if he was actually charged with anything. The police blotter does not report anything other than "routine calls" for Oct. 1st. I am waiting for a return call from BPD at this time.
I spoke with Commander Prentup of the Sheriff's department and she assured me that they don't treat all open carry calls like they did this one. She made it clear that the Sheriff department understands and respects that Colorado is an open carry state and they take calls on a case by case basis but due to his "dress, demeanor and various witness statements" including the fact that they were unable to contact him initially, they decided that he might have been a legitimate threat. She was kind enough to send me a picture of the evil-looking-but-not-necessarily-deadly weapon.
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