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Sheriff’s Deputy Resigns After Alerting ICE to Utah Student, Space Command Moves from CO to AL, CU Cancels Aerospace Class after Assault Jack Armstrong
Headlines Wednesday Sept 3, 2025
Sheriff’s Deputy Resigns After Alerting ICE to Utah Student, AG Weiser Drops Lawsuit
Mesa County Sheriff Deputy Alexander Zwinck resigned yesterday almost three months after he was accused of sharing information about a Utah student that led to her being detained my immigration officials. The Denver Post reports that Attorney General Phil Weiser has rescinded his lawsuit against Zwinck because of his resignation.
Colorado state law prohibits state law enforcement from aiding federal immigration enforcement, as well as carrying out civil immigration enforcement. Weiser has dropped the charges because the law no longer applies to Zwinck after his resignation. That’s according to a court motion obtained by The Post.
The lawsuit alleged that Deputy Zwinck purposefully stalled a Utah student, Carolina Dias-Goncalves, while she was traveling though Mesa county, allowing immigration enforcement time to get into position to detain her.
Zwinck was also communicating with ICE officials via signal, sharing Dias Goncalves’ drivers license via the messaging app Signal. The Attorney General is still conducting a larger investigation into other state regional law enforcement’s collaboration with federal immigration enforcement.
Space Command Moves from CO to AL
In an announcement made by President Donald Trump, U.S. Space Command will be relocated from Colorado Springs to Alabama. The decision came after a four-year debate on which state it would reside in based on how the headquarters could make a significant difference in the local economy.
President Trump decided that the home of Space Command was QUOTE “wrongfully obstructed by the Biden administration.” He also did not agree this was fair due to the fact that Colorado uses mail-in ballots.
The decision to remove Space Command out of this particular district, particularly affects four Colorado Republicans who had been fighting to keep it in Colorado Springs, who even teamed up with Democrats to save it.
The Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce estimates that Space Command is tied to nearly 1,400 jobs and creates an annual economic impact of roughly $1 billion. The functions of Space Command include conducting operations like enabling satellite-based navigation and troop communication, as well as, providing warning of missile launches.
CU Cancels Aerospace Class after Assault
The University of Colorado has decided to cut an aerospace engineering class that has ties to the United States Government. This decision follows after the April 2 assault of two CU Boulder students.
The class, called “Designing for Defence”, was a common class taken by aerospace engineers. The class was officially removed from the class search page. One particular characteristic of the class was that it was linked to the military industrial complex.
The assault that caused an uproar was caught on camera. As a protester walked into the “Designing for Defense” class in early April and was asked to leave by former professor Andrew Meyer. The protester was shortly thrown against a wall after another non-CU-affiliated mentor was seen grabbing the students keffiyeh.
CU Boulder released a statement that explained that it “condemns acts of violence and does not tolerate classroom disruptions, both of which violate state law and university policies.” Regardless, the class is now unavailable to students.
Colorado Gun Rights Groups Sue State over Mandatory Safety Training
One of Colorado’s newest and most-restrictive gun-control laws is being challenged in court. Starting next summer, the measure requires buyers to complete hours of safety training and obtain a permit before purchasing firearms that use detachable ammunition magazines.
It applies to a wide-range of popular rifles, shotguns, pistols and some handguns.
A federal lawsuit filed Tuesday on behalf of the Colorado State Shooting Association and six individual plaintiffs argues the law violates Coloradans’ Second Amendment rights.
Supporters say it will help limit the damage caused during mass shootings. Governor Polis signed the measure into law in April.
Wolf Ban Fails
A group trying to end Colorado’s voter-approved wolf reintroduction program has fallen short in its effort to collect enough signatures to put the question on the fall ballot. But they say they aren’t giving up just yet.
Coloradans for Smart Wolf Policy was well short of the required [one-hundred twenty-five thousand] 125,000 signatures at the time of the deadline last Wednesday, according to the Colorado Sun. The group said they had gathered about 25,000 signatures.
The wolf release program started with the release of ten wolves in Grand and Summit counties beginning in December 2023. Coloradans for Smart Wolf Policy said the signatures they collected were evenly divided between the Front Range and ranching districts in Colorado’s northwest, saying that shows ending the program has plenty of support.
