The Boulder County coroner’s office has agreed to pay $1,200 to the family of a woman killed in a car crash last year in Longmont and from whose purse money was allegedly stolen.
The sheriff’s office, meanwhile, has declined to file charges after an investigation into the reported theft, but investigators believe the theft involved someone from the coroner’s office.
A coroner’s investigator who “significantly failed” a polygraph test administered by the Colorado Bureau of Investigation on behalf of the sheriff’s office is no longer with the coroner’s office, but Coroner Emma Hall said the woman wasn’t fired. Hall said the former investigator passed a polygraph test administered during an internal investigation.
Hall said she doesn’t think anyone from her office took the money and the internal investigation didn’t reveal any grounds for administrative action.
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