Colorado: Lawsuit claims Loveland cop William Gates has history of wrongful DUI arrests

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Lawsuit claims Loveland cop has history of wrongful DUI arrests

6 January 2022

A pilot claims in a new lawsuit against the Loveland Police Department that he was wrongfully arrested for drunk driving by an officer with a history of unjustified arrests. The breath and blood tests Harris Elias took on the night of Jan. 4, 2020, showed zero intoxicants in his system, according to the lawsuit, filed Monday in Larimer County. But based on his take on the events of that night, a Loveland police officer was intent on proving otherwise. The incident happened Jan. 4, 2020. Elias was driving home from north Fort Collins when Officer William Gates, who was on ...

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Lawsuit alleges Loveland Police Department has pattern of wrongful DUI arrests
Blood test shows man arrested in 2020 had no alcohol in system

31 March 2022

Harris Elias says he was driving home from his girlfriend's house in early 2020 when his life was changed forever. Elias was driving in Fort Collins and was pulled over by a Loveland police officer. “I was deliberate in my turn signal, trying to get out of the way of a person and not causing any conflict or any road rage or anything like that. I was just simply trying to get out of his way," Elias said. “When [the officer] mentioned the overwhelming odor of alcohol, I knew that he was dishonest. I knew outright that it was a ...

Lawsuit alleges Loveland Police Department has pattern of wrongful DUI arrests

The complaint claims there are more than a dozen other instances where people have been arrested for drunk driving by Loveland police officers, but blood tests do not back up the charges.

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