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CSPD: 60 arrested while cleaning the homeless camp in Colorado, including Texas sexual offender

CSPD: 60 arrested while cleaning the homeless camp in Colorado, including Texas sexual offender

Colorado Springs, there. (KRDO) – On the first day of a city -level collaboration effort to clean the homeless camps in the city, the Colorado Springs Police Department (CSPD) says he has made 60 arrests, including a man wanted to be a violent sexual predator.

CSPD declared on April 2, their (hot) homeless information team was talking to people who are illegal in the area of ​​America, the beautiful park, when they met Ricky James Custer, 38 years old.

The team discovered that Custer was searched on a term of Texas who identified him as a violent sexual predator. Custer was arrested and accused of non -compliance as a sexual offender and reserved in the prison in El Paso, CSPD said.

CSPD said he had 3 offense mandate arrests on April 2, including Custer. The department did not specify the reasons for the other crime mandates.

The team also made 54 arrests of mandate of crime and 3 drug arrests for crime and taught 4 waterways, 8 crime tickets and 2 tickets for parking.

The cleaning effort comes after the CSPD Hot team told KRDO13 that they receive dozens of complaints every day of garbage, needles and even feces due to the growing number of homeless camps in the city.

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