Denver’s Manager of Safety has fired Cheryl Arabalo, a Denver Sheriff’s Department captain who about it.
Sheriff Capt. Frank Gale said Arabalo was terminated within the last two weeks.
In a federal lawsuit against the department, Arabalo alleged the sexual assault occurred Oct. 11, 2009, and that when she reported it to a superior, he told her not to say anything about it and never reported her allegation to administrators.
After she told a superior about the incident, she faced sexual harassment from another officer, a captain, according to court documents.
After the department investigated the sexual-harassment charges, the captain received a 75-day suspension without pay.
After Arabalo filed a complaint about the captain with the Colorado Division of Civil Rights, the department investigated her for filing an incorrect computer report regarding her supervision of deputies’ routine checks on inmates, according to her lawsuit.
Arabalo said she did her job properly but a computer glitch caused the problem.
The department suspended her for 70 days after an internal investigation of the incident.
Without naming Arabalo, . He said she should have been demoted to deputy.
Then, which she started to provide financial assistance to active Denver sheriff officers, civilians and their families in emergency situations such as death, disability, illness, injury or other severe situations.
The investigation was launched shortly before she was scheduled to return to work from suspension.
A grand jury failed to return an indictment in the embezzlement case.
When Arabalo returned to work after 70 days, she was put on investigatory leave.
A department complaint charges that her conduct in the foundation case hurt the department “in some way, but the grand jury came back without an indictment,” Linda Lee, her lawyer said recently.
Tom McGhee: 303-954-1671 or tmcghee@denverpost.com
