A Jefferson County grand jury has indicted the town’s longtime mayor and police chief, Robert Gordanier, and his daughter, town clerk Brenda Hamilton, on 17 criminal charges stemming from a 2023 CBS News Colorado investigation .
Gordanier remains the town’s police chief and mayor pro tem, while Hamilton is on paid administrative leave despite facing multiple felony charges.
According to the Jefferson County District Attorney’s office, the pair were indicted for crimes committed between July 2019 and November 2023. The grand jury “opened its investigation on November 17, 2023, shortly after CBS Colorado reported on allegations of misconduct,” the DA’s office said in a news release.
Starting in the fall of 2023, CBS News Colorado reported that Hamilton and her family were able to purchase three vehicles from the town that had been used as police cars. In two cases, records showed Gordanier signed the bills of sale but left them blank, allowing someone else to fill in the details, such as the purchase price for the vehicles.