Week of June 8, 2026: Former Denver Police Officer Charged with Domestic Violence-Related Assault, Strangulation, Harassment and False Imprisonment

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. These actions from POST are not necessarily only those 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 see a catch-up from POST with 19 actions added, including multiple decertifications for lying during internal affairs investigations along with multiple former officers with criminal charges.

Daryl Johnson (CO-036-796)

• Terminated for cause as an officer with Rangely Police Department on May 21
• Given a credibility report as an officer with Rangely Police Department on June 12
• Previously a deputy marshal in Dinosaur, Colorado, an officer with Milledgeville Police Department in Illinois, and was in the U.S. Army.

Sources:

• POST Database
• Rangely Police Department Facebook page

Christopher Gearhart (CO-3534-2262)

• Given a credibility report while with Lakewood Police Department on June 11
• Resigned while under investigation from the Lakewood Police Department on May 9
• Arrested May 19 on six counts of official misconduct and four counts of cyber-crime
  • According to the 1st District Attorney’s Office, on July 22, 2025, Gearhart and four other Lakewood police department patrol agents responded to a call “involving a twenty-eight-year-old intoxicated female.” The woman said she recognized Gearhart and “repeatedly verbally alleged” that he had tried to have sex with her, made sexual comments, and intentionally manipulated the audio on his bodycamera. The woman also said that he kept her “in the car at the detox facility for approximately thirty minutes during their contact.”
  • Two days later the other officers reported these comments to LPD internal affairs and Gearhart was placed on paid administrative leave.
  • On August 28, 2025 LPD requested the 1st DA conduct an independent criminal investigation with Gearhart resigning shortly after the DA took over.
  • The DA found evidence of Gearhart “intentionally muting his department issued BWC, terminating recordings during arrest, and conducting unauthorized queries of Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS) records.”
  • Investigators also reviewed “thousands of pages of text message content from Gearhart’s assigned work cell phone” which revealed “both personal and work related use and contained explicit photographs and sexually related communications, including communications with former female arrestees, witnesses, and victims, both on and off duty.”
  • According to the DA, Gearhart was working as a non-sworn booking deputy at an ICE detention center in Denver when arrested.

Sources:

• POST Database
• 1st District Attorney’s Office

Isaac Julian (CO-022-761)

• Subject of a criminal charge while not employed with a law enforcement agency
• Charged with one count of child abuse through knowingly or recklessly causing bodily injury and one count of third degree assault through knowingly or recklessly causing injury both stemming from a January 10 offense date.
• Archuleta County Courts did not respond to a records request for an arrest affidavit before publishing
• No previous actions
• Unknown former agencies

Sources:

• POST Database
• Court records

Joshua Alcon (CO-9065-7466)

• Subject of a criminal charge while not employed with a law enforcement agency
• Arrested August 16, 2025 by Colorado Springs Police Department for domestic violence-related charges including:
  • one charge of second degree assault through strangulation
  • one charge of third degree assault through knowingly or recklessly causing injury
  • one charge of harassment through striking, shoving or kicking
  • one charge of false imprisonment.
• Alcon has plead not guilty to all charges.
• According to an arrest affidavit:
  • A DoorDash driver followed the sound of yelling to a door a floor above where he was delivering and knocked. The driver told officers that Alcon answered the door, with a woman — Alcon’s then wife — inside “expressing she wanted to leave.” He said he told Alcon to let her leave or he would call the police. Reporting officers described Ring footage later supplied by the wife as showing Alcon yelling multiple racial slurs at the driver while the wife screamed in the background. It showed the driver telling Alcon again to let her leave before Alcon slammed the door and the driver then calling the police. The driver told officers that the woman left minutes later.
  • According to the affidavit, when officers contacted Alcon he initially refused to open the door and stated the neighbor was the one yelling loudly, before then stating he and his wife had an “altercation.” Reporting officers state in the affidavit that Alcon said the wife hit him on the head with her fist 45 minutes prior to their arrival and denied being physical with her, though changed his phrasing to wrestling and then a struggle.
  • Reporting officers spoke with the wife who said that Alcon threw her around the apartment and strangled her “at least six times.” She described deep chest and neck pain, and that though she did not lose consciousness, her vision began to fade at one point. She told officers, according to the affidavit, that Alcon said while choking her: “I can kill you if I want.” She continued that Alcon had grabbed her hair and hit her head on a dresser, and kicked her. Officers state in the affidavit observing injuries consistent with her explanations.
• A week after his arrest, he was charged with a criminal violation of the protection order against him related to that arrest.
• Sworn in as an officer with the Denver Police Department in 2018, having won an award for most inspirational recruit. No longer on DPD payroll as of at least April.
• No previous actions.

Sources:

• POST Database
• Denver Police Department
• Court records

Devin Gonzales (CO-096-550)

• Resigned in lieu of termination for cause as an officer with Brighton Police Department on May 15
• Credibility report issued against him by Brighton PD on June 11
• Applied to Brighton PD in April 2022
• Brighton PD did not respond to a June 8 records request for related documents on Gonzales by publishing
• Previously a “patrol officer” for Denver Public Schools Department of Safety and security officer for the Denver Public Library

Sources:

• POST Database
• Job application and resume

Derek Schroeder (CO-137-541)

• Terminated for cause from Lakewood Police Department on June 4
• Hired by Lakewood PD in July 2022
• No previous actions
• No known former agencies

Sources:

• POST Database
• Lakewood Police Department

Devon DeHerrera (CO-202-463)

• Decertified June 5 for having “knowingly made an untruthful statement concerning a material fact OR knowingly omitted a material fact on a criminal justice record and during an administrative investigation and disciplinary process on October 19, 2025.”
• Previously terminated for cause and issued a credibility report from the Colorado Department of Revenue - Gaming

Sources:

• POST Database

Michelle Knight (CO-254-526)

• Decertified June 5 for having “knowingly made an untruthful statement concerning a material fact OR knowingly omitted a material fact on a criminal justice record and during an administrative investigation and disciplinary process on January 31, 2024.”
• Terminated for cause from Denver Police Department on January 13, 2025
• According to a Denver Civil Service Commission Decision and Order letter, Knight responded to a hit-and-run on Dec. 25, 2023 where she was responsible for a duffel bag that was recovered at the scene. She followed the victim to the hospital, but bodycamera footage shows the duffel bag staying in her cruiser through her shift until her returning to the police station without it. Knight stated she had no knowledge of the disappearance of the duffel bag in an investigation. According to the report, “the conclusion of the investigation was that Petitioner committed a materially deceptive act regarding her responses during the investigation of the disappearance of the duffel bag.” The letter affirms Knight’s discipline for this as well as her termination.
• Sworn into Denver Police Department in 2021
• No known former agencies

Sources:

• POST Database
• Denver Civil Service Commission

Louis Doll (CO-139319)

• Decertified June 5 for having “knowingly made an untruthful statement concerning a material fact OR knowingly omitted a material fact during an internal affairs investigation, and during an administrative investigation and disciplinary process on February 3, 2025.”
• Issued a credibility report from Colorado Springs Police Department on Dec. 30, 2025
• Terminated for cause from Colorado Springs PD on Oct. 13, 2025
• Other employing agencies include Teller County Sheriff’s Office

Sources:

• POST Database
• Colorado Springs Police Department Facebook page

Sarah Campos (CO-612-502)

• Decertified June 5 for having “knowingly made an untruthful statement concerning a material fact OR knowingly omitted a material fact during an internal affairs investigation, and during an administrative investigation and disciplinary process on July 29, 2025 thru July 31, 2025”
• Resigned while under investigation as an officer with Northglenn Police Department on Aug. 1, 2025
• Blue Surveillance was denied the related internal affairs investigation from Northglenn PD as, according to Chief James May, the records are not in the public interest. He continued that the misconduct did not involve a member of the public and “ultimately, there are too many concerns with potentially damaging the privacy interests of the individuals involved.”
• Northglenn PD Sergeant Joshua Moreau resigned while under investigation the same day as Campos, with his internal affairs report denied in the same letter for the same reasons.
• No known former agencies

Sources:

• POST Database
• Northglenn Police Department

Ryan Patino (CO-717-027)

• Issued a credibility report as an officer with Frederick Police Department on June 9 because he “knowingly made an untruthful statement concerning a material fact or knowingly omitted a material fact on a criminal justice record, while testifying under oath or during an internal affairs investigation or administrative investigation and disciplinary process.”
• Terminated from Frederick Police Department on April 22
• Formerly an officer with Boulder Police Department

Sources:

• POST Database
• Frederick Police Department Facebook page

Bobbie Sawyer-Hammond (CO-133868)

• Subject of a criminal charge while not employed with a law enforcement agency
• Arrested on June 3 by Colorado Springs Police Department for domestic violence-related charges:
  • one count of third degree assault through knowingly or recklessly causing injury
  • one count of harassment through striking, shoving or kicking
• No known former agencies
• No previous actions

Sources:

• POST Database
• Court records

Jermal Ball (CO-202-534)

• Terminated from Archuleta County Sheriff's Office as a deputy on June 8
• Issued a credibility report from previous agency of Durango Police Department on May 6, 2026
• Applied to Durango PD in October 2021
• Fired from Durango PD weeks after hiring for dishonesty related to being pulled over  with a .157 blood alcohol content while driving
• Firing went unreported to POST because Durango PD said Ball had not been sworn in yet
• Did not disclose a previous domestic violence charge from New Mexico in his application to become a Colorado law enforcement officer

Sources:

• POST Database
• Denver Post
• Archuleta County SO Facebook page

Brian Tate (CO-160-705)

• Terminated for cause as an officer with Golden Police Department on Feb. 2, 2026
• Blue Surveillance was denied the termination letter by the City of Golden as they have incorrectly defined it as a criminal justice record
• According to disciplinary summaries received by Golden Police Department, they received a complaint against Tate on Nov. 26, 2025 which led to his dismissal. Golden PD claims it concerned conduct not involving a member of the public and not while on duty, so they denied releasing the complaint itself.
• Golden PD gave the same reasoning for not releasing a November 2022 complaint that led to a four day suspension and two year performance plan
• The only released complaint involved an accusation of Tate being unprofessional in his handling of a report by a mother of an assault against her son.
• Applied to Golden PD January 2022

Sources:

• POST Database
• Golden Police Department
• City of Golden

Amber Garcia (CO-2932-3544)

• Issued a credibility report from Colorado State Patrol on May 13 for having “knowingly made an untruthful statement concerning a material fact or knowingly omitted a material fact on a criminal justice record, while testifying under oath or during an internal affairs investigation or administrative investigation and disciplinary process.”
• Terminated for cause from Colorado State Patrol on May 9, 2025
• Blue Surveillance was denied Garcia’s termination letter from Colorado State Patrol in March “due to privacy interests of the parties involved, and the agency's interest in keeping confidential information confidential...”
• No known former agencies

Sources:

• POST Database
• Colorado State Patrol

Daniel Ferris (CO-112709)

• Retired while under investigation as a sergeant with Dacono Police Department on May 19
•  No previous actions
• No known former agencies

Sources:

• POST Database

Michael Montez (CO-107199)

• Retired while under investigation from the Colorado Bureau of Investigation on May 11
• CBI denied Blue Surveillance both the resignation letter from Montez, claiming it is a personnel file and therefore not releasable, and the summary of the internal affairs investigation against Montez claiming it is against the public interest.
• No known former agencies
• No previous actions.

Sources:

• POST Database
• Colorado Bureau of Investigation