A man wanted for his involvement in the 2016 shooting of a Carbondale Police Officer has been arrested in Colorado.
On January 11, the U.S. Marshals Colorado Violent Offender Task Force as well as Task Force Officers from the Otero County Sheriff’s Office, Colorado Department of Corrections, Drug Enforcement Administration and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, located and arrested 30-year-old Xavier Lewis of Colorado.
Lewis, along with others, was originally indicted in Jackson County in 2018 as a result of an investigation after Carbondale Police Officer Trey Harris was struck by gunfire as he and another officer pursued a vehicle occupied by shooting suspects who opened fired on the officers in July 2016.
The warrant includes charges of Aggravated Discharge of a Firearm, Aggravated Battery with a Firearm, Conspiracy to Possess with Intent to Deliver Cannabis and Cannabis Trafficking.
Lewis is currently being held in the Bent County Jail in Colorado awaiting extradition to Illinois.
