A Suspect Arrested for Breaking into Colorado Supreme Court Building

Police say a man was caught on Tuesday after breaking into the Denver Colorado Supreme Court building with a gun and starting a fire in a hallway.

Brandon Olsen, 44, was caught by police on charges of arson, robbery, and burglary. They say he broke into the Ralph L. Carr Colorado Judicial Center in downtown Denver and shot out a window after leaving the scene of a car accident just after 1 a.m.

Police say Olsen held a gun to the head of an unarmed security guard and took his keys. He then went up to the seventh floor of the building, where he fired shots and started a fire in a hallway that was quickly put out by the sprinkler system.

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The Denver Police Department said in a statement that Olsen turned himself in to police without any problems at about 3 a.m. The suspect was taken to the hospital and cleared by medical staff, but the Colorado State Patrol said in a statement that no one else was hurt.

Olsen might have had a lawyer who could speak out in his defense, but it wasn't clear. It wasn't clear why the break-in happened, but the Colorado State Patrol pretty much ruled out any link to the recent ruling by the Colorado Supreme Court about Donald Trump's presidential campaign.

As a result of his part in the attack on the U.S. Capitol by his followers on January 6, 2021, the former president was not allowed to run in the state's Republican primary.

The court said that Trump couldn't be president because of a part of the U.S. Constitution that says people who "engaged in insurrection or rebellion" can't hold public office. After that, people started bothering and maybe even threatening the justices.

The state patrol said in a statement that there was a "high probability" that the break-in had nothing to do with recent threats against the justices.

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