Colorado families have said that police seemed disinterested in investigating their loved ones’ fentanyl deaths. It’s raised questions at the Capitol about the credibility of a law enforcement comm…
related to fentanyl possession and sale – with particular consequences for those who sell drugs that wind up killing someone else.
State Sen. Julie Gonzales, a Denver Democrat, called that “stunning.” Colorado Springs Republican state Rep. Shane Sandridge said there’s “no excuse.” In a committee hearing last week, State Sen. John Cooke, the Republican former sheriff of Weld County and a lead sponsor of HB22-1326, publicly apologized on law enforcement’s behalf.
Matt Stoneberger, president of the Colorado Drug Investigators Association, said that harsher penalties for possession and drug distribution resulting in death will also help law enforcement motivate lower-level drug suppliers to provide information about people higher up in the supply chain. “I know a lot of the time there’s this feeling: ‘Why don’t they go out and get the person who did this? We know who they are,’” Montoya said. “Many times we probably could determine who the person was who was most likely dealing to them, but trying to prove that the lethal dose came out of their hand is what is challenging to us.
“There was no explanation,” Peterson said. “I kept on being like, don’t you want to take her phone? And they said there’s nothing here. Just nothing. … How many more people could’ve had the same batch my sister had? And they did not look into it at all.” Rep. Sandridge, a former cop in Kansas City, Mo., is skeptical that law enforcement needs new felonies and more money for investigations when they are yet to prove they can make effective use of the tools they already have.
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