The El Paso County Sheriff’s Office has named two suspects in the theft of the dog tags and other possessions of an airman killed in Afghanistan in January, but investigators haven’t found the stolen goods.
Denard Thompson, 29, is in the El Paso County Criminal Justice Center on charges he stole the belongings of the late Senior Airman Bradley R. Smith, 24, of Troy, Ill., from a car in a restaurant parking lot in Colorado Springs.
A second suspect, Dwain Boyd, 22, is at large. He is described as black, 5 feet 10 inches tall and 200 pounds.
Smith was killed in an ambush near Kandahar Airfield on Jan. 3. His wife and mother had flown to Colorado last week for a memorial service at Fort Carson and to collect the possessions sent back from Afghanistan.
They were having lunch at Golden Corral on Waynoka Drive when someone smashed a rear window of their rental car and took Smith’s dog tags, two laptops, a digital camera and other items.
The Denver Post; photos courtesy of El Paso County Sheriff’s Office
