Former state Rep. Douglas Bruce was cited for trespassing Saturday after he and another man refused to leave a Colorado Springs business, police said Monday.
Lt. David Whitlock, spokesman for Colorado Springs police, said officers were called to a Costco on Barnes Road about solicitors whom the business wanted removed.
Police ordered the men “to leave the premises, numerous times,” Whitlock said.
They refused, he said, and were detained and issued summonses under the city’s trespass ordinance.
Bruce, who was collecting signatures for a ballot measure, said he had a right to be on the property.
“It is a public shopping complex, but they didn’t want us there.”
Bruce said he and Douglas Stinehagen, 76, will plead not guilty and ask for a jury trial.
Staff writer Lynn Bartels contributed to this report.
