The Denver Gazette: An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) deputy and former Lakewood Police Department agent was arrested Tuesday for allegedly manipulating his body-worn camera during arrests.

Christopher Gearhart, who worked for Lakewood as a patrol agent from January 2019 until his resignation in September 2025, faces charges of official misconduct and cybercrime for muting his body-worn camera and deleting its recordings during arrests, according to Tuesday news releases from the department and the First Judicial District Attorney’s Office.

The former agent also allegedly had explicit photographs and sexual communications on his assigned work cell phone, according to the judicial release. Since he resigned from the department, where he committed the alleged offenses, he has taken up employment as a non-sworn booking deputy with the Department of Homeland Security at an ICE facility in Denver.

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