Week of May 25, 2026: Possible Identity Theft and Forgery Charges for Gunnison County Sheriff’s Deputy

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, for the first time since Blue Surveillance began our newsletter, POST did not upload any actions. Instead of new actions, we have some updates on previously reported on officers.

Officer updates:

Records that must come directly from a law enforcement agency are not required to be released within three business days, as it is with CORA requests to municipalities. Sometimes an officer is added to the database later in the week, and there isn’t time for records requests to come before the newsletter has to be sent out. Sometimes the records we get back are resumes or job applications without much more information, but sometimes they are documents that do lend more important details.

Whenever any of these updates come in, we put them here.

Paul Allen (CO-056-573)

• Terminated for cause as a detention deputy with Gunnison County Sheriff’s Office on May 14
• Update: Termination letter, disciplinary action letter, resume, job application
  • According to disciplinary action letter from GCSO Undersheriff Josh Ashe, Allen is subject of a criminal investigation by the 7th Judicial District Attorney’s Office for alleged identity theft and forgery. Ashe states that charges have been filed by the District Attorney’s Office, but Blue Surveillance could not find any dockets or court records, nor did they respond to a request for comment before publishing.

Jeremy Engel (CO-039-275)

• Issued a credibility report while a deputy with Weld County Sheriff’s Office on May 14
• Update: credibility disclosure notifications, internal affairs investigation summaries
  • Reported on here.
  • Credibility disclosure notification states that Engel, 42, admitted during an internal affairs investigation to “unlawful sexual contact” in 2015 against a 16-year-old
  • Engel initially denied all allegations and volunteered to take a polygraph test, which he failed. He continued denying, but eventually admitted to the unlawful sexual contact.”
  • Employed with WCSO from 9/25/2023 to 5/11/2026
  • He was dishonest during his background screening and during the administrative investigation into the allegation.
  • According to Sgt. Daniel Chapman, as of the 26th, Engel was appealing his termination.

Dominic Pino (CO-984-804)

• Resigned while under investigation as an officer with Pueblo Police Department on April 24
• Update: Internal affairs investigation summary, job application
  • According to the investigation summary:
    • On Oct. 13, 2025 Pino responded to a call about a “family disturbance/possible menacing.” A woman told Pino on the phone that her mother was holding a knife when she arrived at the home.
    • Pino told the woman that he would write an arrest warrant due to domestic violence laws.
    • Ten days later, Pino wrote in a report that he had completed a “blue sheet” — probably cause arrest affidavit — for the arrest of the domestic violence offender, and sent it to the District Attorney’s Office.
    • Pino “never completed, sent, or attached a blue sheet” to the case report. The report he did write took those ten days to submit for approval, was denied for him to adjust, and he then waited 21 days before resubmitted it and immediately approving it himself. The report clarifies he did not have the authority to do that.
    • If Pino had not resigned, he would have been found to have violated internal policies on “untruthfulness” and terminated for cause.
  • According to the job application:
    • Former agencies include Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office starting only months before applying to Pueblo PD, and the Colorado Department of Corrections from 2018 to that point in September 2020.