Comet manhunt ends with arrests

By Eliza McLaughlin, reporter

January 27, 2023

57521294310472d06a6f083656ab4d79 — A map of the area affected by Thursday's shelter-in-place. Photo courtesy of the Jefferson County Sheriff's Department.

Around 8 p.m. Thursday evening, Jan. 26, the Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office pursued a wanted individual considered armed and dangerous on foot in the Comet area.

The hunt — which resulted in a “shelter in place” for residents of High Ore Road to Depot Hill Road and down Interstate 15 — lasted approximately seven hours and ended with the suspect Shawn Arrants in custody.

Jefferson County Sheriff Tom Grimsrud told The Monitor that the incident originated from a suspicious persons call at the Boulder Town Pump. When deputies arrived on scene, Arrants fled up High Ore Road and abandoned his vehicle.