Lindell Ally Colorado County Clerk Arrested In Scuffle With Cops Attempting To Serve Search Warrant [VIDEO]

Colorado Politics reports:

Police arrested Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters at a Grand Junction restaurant on Tuesday after she resisted authorities’ attempts to seize an iPad under a search warrant, police said.

Peters was released at the scene pending charges, police said. The incident is not directly related to multiple state and federal investigations into Peters’s alleged involvement last year in election data security breaches, authorities confirmed.

Peters has been accused of helping facilitate breaches in election system security, ignoring election rules and defying orders from Secretary of State Jena Griswold. She also faces ethics and campaign finance complaints involving gifts she’s allegedly accepted above legal limits.

Denver’s NBC News affiliate reports:

According to an affidavit, officers were serving a warrant to seize Peters’ iPad on which she is suspected of improperly recording a court hearing involving her deputy clerk, Belinda Knisley, after a judge prohibited recording in the courtroom.

Clerk Peters denied to the judge that she was recording the hearing but an arrest warrant says “the iPadOS camera application was open, distinguishable with the red record button” and that an observer “saw that the view in the viewfinder was a live view of the courtroom.”

This arrest is not related to a state investigation into a security breach involving Mesa County’s election equipment.

Tina Peters, a CO elections official allied with MyPillow’s Mike Lindell and under investigation for alleged voting machine tampering in an attempt to prove the election was stolen, appears to have scuffled with cops as she was arrested today. https://t.co/FZXRq1NF7h

— Will Sommer (@willsommer) February 8, 2022