The El Paso County Sheriff’s Department 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 yet 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 still 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.
His widow and mother were having lunch at the 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.
Anyone with information about the location of Boyd or the airman’s possession can call the El Paso County Sheriff’s Department at 719-520-7246 or Crime Stoppers at 719-634-7867.
