Jared Polis Shoved Female Employee, Blocked Her From Calling Police, Police Report Says

Jared Polis, Colorado’s Democratic gubernatorial nominee, shoved a female employee at his office which resulted in minor injury, physically prevented her from leaving, and then blocked her from calling the police, according to a newly discovered police report.

In the police report obtained by the Washington Free Beacon, Polis admitted to police that he pushed Patricia Hughes in June of 1999 “at an office Polis had in Boulder for a company called JPS International LLC.”

Polis, whose legal name at the time was Jared Polis Schutz, told police that Hughes “had given her resignation a few days earlier, but called him on the day in question saying she had information to ‘go after’ him if her exit from the company did not go smoothly.”

Polis immediately drove to the office and asked to go through her personal belongings to see if she was taking any company property. She refused, so he called the police.

Polis’ account of what happened: “After hanging up with the dispatcher, Ms. Hughes attempted to leave the office. Mr. Schutz physically blocked the door to prevent her from leaving. She moved toward him again, this time hitting him with one of her bags. Mr. Schutz then put both of his hands on her shoulders and pushed her back to prevent her from leaving.”

Hughes’ account of what happened: “Hughes then tried to leave and Schutz did not let her leave. Hughes said that he grabbed her and pushed her back into the office. Hughes said that when Schutz pushed her she was pushed back into a file cabinet, hurting her leg. Hughes said that she then said that she was going to call 911 and went to the phone. Hughes said that she tried calling 911 three times and twice Schutz hung the phone up. The third time Hughes got through.”

The police noted that they observed “two bruise marks on Ms. Hughes left inside bicep and a red welt on her thigh,” which she claimed were caused by Polis.

The police believed that the bruises were not consistent with the accounts of the incident that were described by Polis and Hughes, but added that “the welt was conducive with a file cabinet in front of the door. There was also a key protruding from the upper right-hand corner of the cabinet that could have produced the welt.”

After inspecting Hughes’ bag, police found that she “did knowingly and unlawfully take several files with original contracts and other sensitive documents” from Polis’ office.

The Free Beacon notes that Hughes did get a temporary restraining order against Polis which only lasted a few weeks.