Week of Nov. 2, 2026: Westminster Officer Terminated for Workplace Sexual Harassment and Other Policy Violations

Welcome to our weekly sum-up. Every Monday we 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 we could find. Additionally are officers with otherwise obvious misconduct from around the same time.

This week we have received some documents requested from previous week’s officers, showing workplace sexual harassment, domestic violence and a detention deputy striking an inmate for throwing a sandwich at him.

Nicholas Guerrette (CO-118-007)

• Arrested as a El Paso County Sheriff’s Office detentions deputy on Oct. 29 for charges including official misconduct, possession of contraband and two counts of possession of a schedule three or four controlled substance with intention to distribute.
• According to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office, the Criminal Intelligence Unit began an investigation into Guerrette in November 2025 and found that he “had facilitated the transfer of contraband and illicit drugs between incarcerated individuals while on duty” in the jail. He was put on paid administrative leave on Aug. 5.
• Hired October 2023.

Sources:

• Colorado Bureau of Investigation
• El Paso County Sheriff’s Office

Bruce Sunada (CO-7606-4723)

• Resigned in lieu of termination for cause as an officer with Dacono Police Department on Nov. 2.
• Issued a credibility report as an officer with Dacono Police Department on Nov. 3.
• Formerly a deputy with Weld County Sheriff’s Office.

Sources:

• POST Database

Musa Ayoub (CO-8265-8118)

• Issued a credibility report as an officer with Thornton Police Department on Nov. 3.
• Previously terminated for cause as an officer with Thornton Police Department on Oct. 6.
• Previously subject of an investigation by the 17th Judicial District Critical Incident Response Team for shooting a man on Aug. 20, 2024 along with two other Thornton Officers. The District Attorney did not file charges against him or the other officers.

Sources:

• POST Database
• 17th Judicial District Attorney’s Office

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’ll put them here.

Trevor Woods (CO-0528-0177)

• Terminated for cause from Westminster Police Department on Sept. 2.
• Updates: Disciplinary Memorandum
  • Terminated for a variety of internal policy violations related to improper handling of two fatal arson investigations and a stated pattern of workplace harassment including sexual harassment.
  • The arson investigations involved mishandling of evidence, cases being closed before they had been completed and, according to the memorandum, Woods stated he believed he was “in over [his] head” handling the investigations as a detective.
  • The pattern of sustained workplace harassment included:
    • Woods creating caricatures of coworkers with generative AI, specifically one of a female coworker eating a banana with the peel on and originally with a low-cut shirt before Woods changed it.
    • Woods commenting to a male detective that, because the detective had been married for some time, he must not have sex very often.
    • Woods commenting on the size of a cucumber that a female administrative assistant was eating.
    • Woods using a pair of binoculars at his desk looking at a a female co-worker from afar. Woods stated that he was checking whether the binoculars worked because “one of the eyepieces appeared to be broken.”

Jay Rigdon (CO-135907)

• Charged with harassment through striking, shoving or kicking on Oct. 28 for actions from August.
• Terminated for cause as a corrections deputy with Montrose County Sheriff's Office on Oct. 6.
• Updates: Internal Affairs Investigation
  • Charged with harassment for striking an inmate in the face with his handheld radio. Investigation report states that the inmate was no threat to Rigdon, that he retaliated with excessive force after she threw a sandwich at him and that he did not remember striking her.
  • Reported on here.

Thomas Girten (CO-5037-9354)

• Arrested Oct. 22 on domestic violence-related charges of harassment through insults, taunts or challenges.
• Resigned while under investigation from Greeley Police Department on June 16, 2025.
• Updates: Arrest Affidavit
  • According to Girten’s arrest affidavit, his wife texted 911 that Girten was intoxicated and threatening her. The wife had told him she wanted a divorce, according to the affidavit, and she stated that he then told her he was “going to kill her and her boyfriend,” which she recorded. She told responding officers that she was not dating anyone. The affidavit states that the recording continues with Girten stating he “promised he would kill her.”
  • A preliminary breath test revealed Girten’s BrAC to be 0.322