Included in an Aurora Police Division arrest warrant
A photograph from an arrest warrant for a former Aurora police sergeant exhibits harm inflicted by an exploding pipe bomb. The sergeant faces felony fees for allegedly serving to the suspected bomber cowl up proof.
A retired Aurora police sergeant will spend three months in jail for knowingly shopping for a rifle for a felon who a couple of months later detonated two bombs in residential neighborhoods.
Curtiss Christensen, 70, pleaded responsible in December to at least one depend of firearms straw buy, a category 4 felony. Arapahoe County District Court docket Decide Ryan Stuart on Monday sentenced Christensen to 90 days in jail, 4 years on probation and 75 hours of group service, on-line courtroom data present.
As a part of the plea deal, prosecutors agreed to dismiss a cost of tampering with proof and a cost of being an adjunct to a criminal offense.
Aurora police arrested Christensen in March whereas investigating the 2 explosions. No one was injured throughout the explosions on Dec. 25, 2020, and Jan. 7, 2021, however the blasts propelled shards of shrapnel as much as 2 inches broad via the home windows and partitions of three homes.
Christensen rented a room in his dwelling to the bomber, Scott Campbell, who used to this point his daughter. Campbell in January pleaded responsible to tried first-degree homicide and possession of a weapon by a earlier offender and was sentenced to twenty years in jail, in response to on-line courtroom data.
Police served a search warrant on an handle related to Campbell and located bomb-making supplies, a handgun, an AR-15 rifle and {a partially} constructed pipe bomb, in response to an affidavit for Campbell’s arrest. Investigators together with his former employer confiscated Campbell’s telephone after his arrest at Christensen’s home and located messages between Campbell and Christensen.
Christensen, who retired from the Aurora Police Division in 2006, helped Campbell disguise the automobile and trailer Campbell used throughout the bombings, in response to the previous sergeant’s arrest affidavit. Christensen then donated the automobile a number of days later, which investigators imagine was an try to cover proof.
The messages confirmed that Christensen purchased a rifle in October for Campbell, who couldn’t legally accomplish that alone as a result of he was a felon, in response to the affidavit. Christensen’s spouse additionally informed investigators that her husband purchased the gun for Campbell.
Campbell’s felony historical past within the Denver space spans 20 years and contains arrests for home violence, theft and driving underneath the affect.
