Week of April 6, 2026: Longmont Police Requests over $2,000 for Investigation Files of Two Longmont Officers Who Resigned While Under Investigation in One Day
Welcome to my weekly sum-up. Every Monday I send out a short summary of the last week’s officers that have landed on Colorado’s Peace Officer Standards and Training public database of law enforcement misconduct and actions. They are not necessarily only actions that have happened in the last week, but those that have been added, and consist of any other context I could find. Additionally are officers with otherwise obvious misconduct from around the same time.
This week we have multiple denied documents and over $1k estimates for one record.
Alicia Lilly (CO-3982-9979)
- Resigned while under investigation as an officer with Longmont Police Department on March 25, 2026
- Worked in TSA for Denver International from 2012 onwards to hiring at Longmont PD
- Worked TSA at Boston-Logan International Airport from 2006 to 2012
- Longmont Police Department quoted Blue Surveillance $1,640 and 40 hours of time for the IA report relevant to Lilly’s resignation while under investigation
- A summary of the report requested April 7 was not released before publishing
- Not previous employment with a law enforcement agency
- No previous actions
Sources:
- POST Database
- Job application
- Resume
Colton McKee (CO-013-508)
- Resigned while under investigation as an officer with Longmont Police Department on March 25, 2026
- Previously an officer with Kenosha Police Department in Wisconsin from 2017 to applying to Longmont PD
- Longmont Police Department quoted Blue Surveillance $1,025 and 25 hours of time for the IA report relevant to McKee’s resignation while under investigation
- A summary of the report requested April 7 was not released before publishing
- No previous actions
Sources:
- POST Database
- Job Application
Kara Wright (CO-202-620)
- Terminated for cause as a corporal with Teller County Sheriff's Office on March 23, 2026
- According to termination letter, violated policies of:
- 320.4.2 SUPERVISOR RESPONSIBILITIES
- 320.8.1 LAWS, RULES AND ORDERS
- 320.8.2 ETHICS
- 320.8.5 ATTENDANCE
- 320.8.7 EFFICIENCY
- 320.8.8 PERFORMANCE
- 320.8.9 CONDUCT
- Letter elaborates that Wright gave direction as Corporal to not investigate two undocumented fights between inmates on Feb. 4, and 5th, and that texts about the fights between her and another deputy contradicted an official memo submitted about the fights. It continues that she also “attended an event when you were scheduled to work without receiving permission and abandoned your post as a Corporal at the jail.”
- Originally applied for detentions deputy position in 2016
- Received Deputy of the Year award during Tell County SO hosted Law Enforcement Week in September 2023
- No previous actions
- No known former agencies
Sources:
- POST Database
- Teller County SO Facebook page
- Job application
- Termination letter
Daniel Vermeer (CO-081-194)
- Resigned while under investigation as a corrections officer with the Boulder County Sheriff's Office on March 3, 2026
- Boulder County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to an April 8 request for relevant documents by publishing time
- No previous actions
- No known former agencies
Sources:
- POST Database
Andersson Torres (CO-000-491)
- Terminated for cause as a detentions deputy with the Larimer County Sheriff's Office on March 24, 2026
- Larimer County Sheriff’s Office did not respond to an April 8 request for relevant documents by publishing time
- No previous actions
- No known former agencies
Sources
- POST Database
Micheal Mondragon (CO-007-412)
- Terminated for cause as a deputy with Denver Sheriff's Department on March 6, 2026
- Denver County Sheriff’s Office denied Blue Surveillance’s request for Mondragon’s job application, resume and termination letter without a form from Mondragon specifically releasing the records — a common response from agencies that believe records are “personnel files” and therefore not releasable to the public.
- No previous actions
- No known former agencies
Sources:
- POST Database
Troy Brienzo (CO-8524-9275)
- Subject of a criminal investigation as of April 3
- Indicted by a grand jury with charges of unlawful sexual conduct, unlawful sexual contact and official misconduct allegedly towards two in the Parker Police Department explorer program that Brienzo advised
- Previous reporting here.
Sources:
- POST Database
- 23rd District Attorney Grand Jury Indictment
Lucas Kimerer (CO-3738-9038)
- Issued a credibility report by his current agency, Thornton Police Department, as an officer on April 7
- Applied to Thorton at the end of 2016
- No previous law enforcement experience
- Employed by the US Army for three years from 2013-2016
- No previous actions
Sources:
- POST Database
- Job application
James Coleman (CO-125357)
- Resigned in lieu of termination for cause as a captain with the Southern Ute Indian Tribe Police Department on Jan. 15, 2026
- No previous actions
- No known former agencies
Sources:
- POST Database
Jonathan Tollefson (CO-107729)
- Resigned while under investigation as an officer with Greeley Police Department on April 1, 2026
- Arrest on March 16 for DUI
- Previously reported on here
Sources:
- POST Database
- Court records
Ivan Armendariz Chavez (CO-713-000)
- Terminated for cause as an officer with the Westminster Police Department on March 26, 2026
- According to the termination letter, Armendariz was terminated for “Substandard Job Performance.” It elaborates that he exceeded the expected time for training phases by weeks, was “assigned to four different Field Training Officers who all noted similar deficiencies related to officer safety, multitasking and decision making,” and that he had a “consistent inability to internalize and apply training.”
- Applied to Westminster PD in January 2025
- No previous actions
- No known former agencies
Sources:
- POST Database
- Termination letter
- Application
