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Memo from district attorney's office suggests workload, lack of staff meant Federal Heights Police Department failed to properly investigate serious felony cases.
Investigators with the 17th Judicial District Attorney's Office found "significant problems" in the Federal Heights Police Department, DA Brian Mason said.
The Federal Heights Police Department has failed to investigate serious felony cases over the last four years in a pattern so "utterly alarming" that 17th Judicial District Attorney Brian Mason referred the matter to the Colorado Attorney General's Office for a potential patterns and practice investigation into the police department.