Week of Oct. 5, 2026: Corporal Convicted of Stealing Tens of Thousands from Non-Profit
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 had a few arrest affidavits come in — including Trisha Worley, a former corporal with Garfield County Sheriff’s Office — along with multiple arrests from the last month.
Zachery Chevere (CO-227-204)
- Terminated for cause as an officer with Florence Police Department on Sept. 23.
- Neither the town or agency responded to a Oct. 8 request for relevant records before publishing.
Sources:
- POST Database
Howard Prince (CO-103557)
- Charged with one count of theft $20,000 to $100,000, 51 counts of forgery of a government issued document and one count of official misconduct as a sergeant with Lakeside Police Department.
- According to court records, the charges are for offenses spanning from June 7, 2022 to Dec. 11, 2025
- Jefferson County Courts did not respond to a Oct. 7 request for an arrest affidavit by publishing.
- According to a Lakeside PD press release, the agency became aware of Prince’s alleged misconduct of wage theft in July 2025, which led to his termiantion for cause on Jan. 6 after an internal investigation.
- Prince was issued a crediblity report on March 3.
- Previous agencies include New Castle Police Department, Fruita Police Department, Mesa County Sheriff’s Office and Boulder District Attorney's Office.
Sources:
- POST Database
- Court Documents
- Lakeside Police Department
Kevin Lacy (CO-254-448)
- Arrested Tuesday as a detention deputy with Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office on charges of sexual conduct in a correctional institution — a felony — and official misconduct involving a female inmate.
- Previously reported on here.
Sources:
- POST Database
- Court Records
Alfred Toliver (CO-5139-3555)
- Arrested in September as a school resource officer with Castle Rock Police Department on two counts of attempt to influence a public servant — a felony, false reporting, failing to report an accident, leaving the scene of an accident with damage only and careless driving.
- Previously reported on here.
- Neither the town of Castle Rock nor Castle Rock Police Department responded to an Oct. 8 request for relevant documents as of publishing.
Sources:
- POST Database
- Court records
Peter Markusen (CO-2124-4932)
- Voluntarily relinquished his certification on Oct. 5 as part of a plea agreement in a domestic violence-related harassment and assault case and related parole violation case. His harassment and assault charges were dismissed in exchange for pleading guilty to the parole violation and relinquishing his certification.
- Previously reported on here.
Sources:
- POST Database
- Court Records
- Boulder County
Rodrigo Basurto (CO-013-836)
- Terminated for cause as an officer with Sheridan Police Department on Sept. 24.
- The town of Sheridan did not respond to a Oct. 8 request for a termination letter before publishing.
- Issued a credibility report as an officer with Sheridan Police Department on Sept. 28.
- Suspended without pay as an officer of Sheridan Police Department in early August.
- Previously terminated for cause from Denver Police Department for replying in a group chat, regarding where to go for shooting practice, that they “should go to the migrant hotel on 6th and Federal and shoot them there lol plenty of targets in there.”
- An investigation by Commander Joseph Connelly — who retired while under his own investigation from Sheridan PD less than a month after the one against Basurto concluded — found that Basurto accidentally fired his on-duty weapon through a table in the department’s “rollcall room” while “preparing to clean his weapon.” Basurto received a three-day suspension.
- Hired by Sheridan PD in May 2025
Sources
- POST Database
- Sheridan Police Department
Jarod Cabral (CO-137953)
- Resigned in lieu of termination for cause as a lieutenant at the Mental Health Institute at Pueblo on Sept. 17.
Sources:
- POST Database
Joseph Duran (CO-1118-001)
- Criminally charged with two counts of official misconduct for alleged offenses from July 12 as an officer with Pueblo Police Department.
- Pueblo Police Department told Blue Surveillance Duran has one internal affairs investigation and it is ongoing so cannot be released.
- The town of Pueblo did not respond to a Oct. 6 CORA request before publishing.
Sources:
- POST Database
- Court documents
- Pueblo Police Department
Athena Garcia (CO-131082)
- Criminally charged with two counts of official misconduct for alleged offenses from July 12 as an officer with Pueblo Police Department.
- Pueblo Police Department told Blue Surveillance Garcia has one internal affairs investigation and it is ongoing so cannot be released.
- Resigned from Pueblo Police Department on Sept. 28.
- Previously a sergeant with Fremont County Sheriff’s Office and a detective with Canon City Police Department.
Sources:
- POST Database
- Court records
- Town of Pueblo
Tyler Reilly (CO-6164-3799)
- Arrested on charges of attempted first degree murder after deliberation, three counts of violent crime using a weapon, first degree assault threatening a peace officer with a weapon, two counts of first degree burglary, second degree assault of a peace officer while in custody, two counts of felony menacing, criminal mischief from $2,000 to $5,000, theft from $2,000 to $5,000 and criminal mischief from $100,000 to $1 million as a former Boulder Sheriff’s Office deputy.
- According to a Boulder County Sheriff’s Office press release, in one night Reilly fired multiple rounds into the BCSO headquarters building with a “AR-15 style” rifle, the same into police vehicles at the Broomfield Police Department. There were no injuries besides Reilly’s hand.
Sources:
- POST Database
- Court Records
- Boulder County Sheriff’s Office
Harrison Olmstead (CO-818-003)
- Issued a credibility report as a trooper with Colorado State Patrol on Sept. 30.
Sources:
- POST Database
Ryan Holmes (CO-125446)
- Issued a credibility report as a trooper with Colorado State Patrol on Oct. 6.
- Previously arrested on domestic violence-related charges of second degree assault through strangulation and witness/victim intimidation.
- Previously reported on here.
Sources:
- POST Database
- Court records
Samuel Bursiaga (CO-3023-3003)
- Terminated for cause as an agent with Lakewood Police Department on Sept. 21.
- Issued a credibility report on Oct. 8.
Sources:
- POST Database
Brandon Sam (CO-7462-2621)
- Arrested on two counts of second degree assault causing serious bodily injury, one count of third degree assault through knowingly or recklessly causing injury and one count of violent crime cause of death on Oct. 3.
- Formerly an officer with Littleton Police Department.
Sources:
- POST Database
- Court Documents
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.
James Coleman (CO-125357)
- Arrested Dec. 31, 2025 as a captain with the Southern Ute Indian Tribe Police Department on charges of first degree criminal trespassing through knowingly and unlawfully entering or remaining in a dwelling of another
- Resigned in lieu of termination for cause on Jan. 15
- Arrested March 20 on domestic violence-related charges of criminal mischief, third degree trespassing, and violation of a protection order.
- Updates: Arrest affidavit
- According to an arrest affidavit, Coleman, while in uniform and arriving in his patrol vehicle, entered the home of his ex-wife while armed and without permission. The ex-wife told Coleman to leave multiple times. Coleman retrieved a shotgun from inside the house, argued with her, then one of their children in the house, and left.
Phillip Sullivan (CO-115-037)
- Decertified as an officer with Aurora Police Department on Sept. 25 due to a deferred sentence for domestic violence-related charges of third degree assault, a misdemeanor.
- Sullivan was originally arrested Nov. 26, 2025 for domestic violence-related charges of failure to leave premises with a weapon, obstructing a law enforcement animal, resisting arrest, harassment through striking, shoving or kicking, prohibited use of a weapon while drunk and two charges of child abuse. All were dismissed by plea besides assault and prohibited use of a weapon while drunk of which he also received a deferred sentence on Feb. 23.
- Updates: Arrest Affidavit
- According to the arrest affidavit, Sullivan’s wife stated that Sullivan had been “taking his frustration and anger out on” the children and her. The day of his arrest, the wife described Sullivan as becoming enraged, her telling the kids to hide themselves in one of the bedrooms and she hid in a locked bathroom. The affidavit describes Sullivan as breaking the door down and pushing the wife into the bathtub, during which her entire right thumb nail ripped off.
- She describes in the affidavit that she pushed past Sullivan, called 911, and joined the kids in the barricaded bedroom of which Sullivan tried to break into as well.
- The wife heard Sullivan rack a pistol and had the children hide behind a mattress until police arrived and they were able to evacuate the house, according to the affidavit. It continues that it took over three hours of negotiations with Sullivan, surrounded by dozens of officers on scene, before he surrendered.
Trisha Worley (CO-136920)
- Decertified as a Corporal with Garfield County Sheriff’s Office for Jan. 22 sentencing after pleading guilty of felony theft $20,000 to $100,000 and one count of first degree official misconduct. Worley had additional charges of felony theft $5,000 to $20,000 and embezzlement of public property, but they were dismissed by the District Attorney.
- According to an internal affairs investigation summary from October 2024, a complaint came to the agency from a local non-profit where Worley was the treasurer, accusing her of misusing funds.
- An additional internal affairs investigation from the same month found Worley to have not passed information up the chain of command about an employee slapping another employee in a public setting.
- Terminated for cause from Garfield County SO on Nov. 7, 2024.
- Updates: Arrest Affidavit:
- According to the arrest affidavit, Worley embezzled approximately $70,000 from the Holy Cross Cattlemen’s Association non-profit that she where she worked as the treasurer from 2022 to October 2024.
- The affidavit describes Worley depositing about $22,000 back into the non-profit’s account soon after another board member of then non-profit brought up charges to the account from Worley’s bank card to their account.
- Some of these charges included thousands of dollars on boots and horse accessories, $2,062 on a six-piece leather sofa set, and almost $10,000 on groceries, as well as thousands in cash-withdrawls from ATMs.
- Worley — who is also a K9 handler — also allegedly spent about $8,000 of Garfield County Sheriff’s Office funds on illegitimate purchases, according to the affidavit, unrelated to her K9 of which the card she had was supplied for.
