Colorado Rep. Matt Gray was picking up his kids at school when he was arrested on DUI charge, report says

Colorado State Rep. Matt Grey’s arrest final week on a DUI cost got here after he tried to choose up his youngsters at a college in Broomfield and workers there reported he gave the impression to be intoxicated and smelled of liquor, in accordance with a police report launched Monday.

Broomfield police arrested Grey, a Democrat representing the thirty third District, round 5:30 p.m. Thursday at Coyote Ridge Elementary College, 13770 Broadlands Drive, after he arrived to choose up his two youngsters from an after-school program.

Staff of the after-school program stopped Grey, 41, from taking the youngsters, 6 and eight, over their suspicions he was intoxicated, and referred to as his ex-wife to retrieve the children, the police report stated.

The worker who reported Grey to police instructed officers she noticed him stumbling, smelled liquor on him “and his phrases had been ‘mumbling’” when he arrived to drive his youngsters house, in accordance with the report. Officer Dashawn Abram additionally famous within the report that Grey smelled of “an unknown alcoholic beverage.”

“I may see that Matthew’s eyes had been bloodshot pink and shiny. He additionally gave the impression to be unsteady standing on two toes,” Abram wrote. “Whereas listening to Matthew discuss, it appeared that he was slurring his phrases and having bother ending his ideas.”

Police stated Grey refused a breath take a look at of his blood alcohol stage and declined to carry out a area sobriety take a look at.

Grey denied consuming any alcohol earlier than trying to choose up his youngsters, and instructed police he was affected by anxiousness and was within the midst of a panic assault, in accordance with the report. The feedback had been much like the assertion he tweeted the day after his arrest.

“I used to be not intoxicated, however my signs of tension and melancholy are such that too many individuals are fearful after they’re round me,” Grey wrote within the since-deleted Tweet. “I’m going to extend my ranges of remedy and admire all of the assist.”

Grey didn’t reply to interview requests following his arrest final week and couldn’t be reached Monday.

In keeping with the report, Grey had referred to as state Sen. Religion Winter earlier than police arrived and requested her to offer him and his two youngsters a experience. Winter was on the scene and instructed police that Grey had had a “dangerous day” at work and that he had struggled with panic assaults for the previous few months, although she didn’t know whether or not that contributed to alcohol consumption, the report stated.

Police famous of their report that, whereas on the patrol automobile, Grey instructed officers, “Simply know that Brian Mason is my buddy,” referring to the district legal professional of the seventeenth Judicial District. Grey additionally “instructed officers one thing to the impact of ‘explicitly’ to not deal with him in another way than we might a standard particular person,” in accordance with the report.

Monday afternoon, Mason’s workplace introduced that he would recuse himself from prosecuting Grey as a result of Grey beforehand labored as a deputy district legal professional in that workplace. As a substitute, the First Judicial District Lawyer’s Workplace in Jefferson County will take the case.

Adams 12 5 Star Colleges launched an announcement Monday saying the security of all college students is the district’s No. 1 precedence.

“If a state of affairs has the potential to influence the security of our college students, workers or any in our college group, workers are educated to contact legislation enforcement,” the district stated. “We’re grateful for the considerate and acceptable response of our workers to a troublesome state of affairs.”

Grey, who represents Boulder and Broomfield counties, was first elected in 2016 and serves on the Home Enterprise Affairs and Labor Committee, the Home Finance Committee and the Home Transportation and Native Authorities Committee within the Colorado Basic Meeting.