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Mar 7 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
NEW: A CDOT spokesman says a commercial bus stopped in the Eisenhower/Johnson tunnels today and let a man off. That man proceeded to walk through the tunnel setting off fire extinguishers in the tunnel "causing a huge mess," spox Tim Hoover told me...
Hoover told me he didn't have many details - we're working to confirm details of it with @DillonPDCO - like what time this happened...or which side of the tunnel it happened on...

Hoover says he "gathers" the passenger was unruly....
CDOT's tweets show eastbound I-70 eastbound from Silverthorne to Loveland Pass has been closed since around 5pm.
Adding more detail to the thread...

CDOT now says this man was on board a Greyhound Bus headed eastbound around 3:20. CDOT says he was kicked off the bus in the parking lot on the west side of the tunnels (near the eastbound lanes)....
According to Hoover, the man tried to gain access to a mountain residence building for CDOT workers on the west side of the tunnel - but couldn't.

Sometime before 5... this man was seen crossing westbound traffic and walking into the Eisenhower tunnel....
He then, according to CDOT, started grabbing fire extinguishers and shooting them at westbound traveling cars in the tunnel. CDOT supervisors are able to convince the man to get out of the tunnel and onto the eastbound side of the tunnel...
Spox Tim Hoover tells me two officers (CSP and Summit County Sheriff were there) had to take the man to the ground because he was combative.

All of this took just under a half an hour.
Here's video taken by a CDOT employee of the man being detained.
CDOT now tells me the eastbound closures that have snarled traffic tonight had nothing to do with this issue. This only closed the westbound Eisenhower tunnel. The Johnson Tunnel wasn't impacted by this...

Slideoffs created the safety issues that closed I-70 eastbound.

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Mar 9
BREAKING: A Mesa County Grand Jury has returned a 13 count indictment against Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters and her deputy clerk related to official misconduct and election equipment tampering.

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Mar 7
More detail on this... CDOT now says this man was on board a Greyhound Bus headed eastbound around 3:20. CDOT says he was kicked off the bus in the parking lot on the west side of the tunnels (near the eastbound lanes)....
According to Hoover, the man tried to gain access to a mountain residence building for CDOT workers on the west side of the tunnel - but couldn't.

Sometime before 5... this man was seen crossing westbound traffic and walking into the Eisenhower tunnel....
He then, according to CDOT, started grabbing fire extinguishers and shooting them at westbound traveling cars in the tunnel. CDOT supervisors are able to convince the man to get out of the tunnel and onto the eastbound side of the tunnel...
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Feb 11
NEW: We're going through body camera video of the arrest of Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. After Peters is escorted out, she continues to accuse officers of hurting her. An officer suggests she "stand up like an adult"

Peters: "Shut up. What an a**h*** thing to say to me."
As officers place Peters in a patrol car, Peters, who'd been loudly accusing officers of hurting her for several minutes, lowers her voice and asks if officers know what they're really doing... "You're assisting Merrick Garland to not show truth about election machines."
Let's back track. Here's the lead-up to the arrest. DA investigators are serving a search warrant for Peters' iPad. When officers arrive, they start to approach a man named Randy, but it appears Peters steps in the way.
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Feb 10
NEW: @GrandJunctionPD is recommending a misdemeanor obstructing a peace officer charge against Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters for this arrest, as DA investigators were serving a search warrant for Peters' iPad.
@GrandJunctionPD According to an arrest affidavit, Peters was sitting at a table with several others. When DA investigators arrived for the iPad, the group started passing it around. Then the cops arrived.
You can see the arrest play out in the video from a witness above. What we don't see is what happens outside. A woman is seen filming the arrest with a phone. According to the affidavit, Peters asks the woman filming to step forward to whisper something to her...
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NEW: By a 3-2 vote, Adams County Commissioners join Douglas County in opting out of the @TCHDHealth public health order mandating masks in schools. #9News #HeyNext
Interesting comment from Eva Henry, chair of the board, responding to Comissioner Emma Pinter’s suggestion that the board support recommendations from the health department it trusted with making this decision…

Henry said by allowing an opt out - @TCHDHealth made it political.
This is fascinating. There’s still public comment where people are urging the board to opt out…even though they already have.
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