Officer Linda Coulimore Arrest Doesn't Shock Neighbors

MEAD, Colo.

Neighbors of a former Longmont police officer accused of stealing a pain medication pump from the hospital room of an Iraq war vet said they're not surprised.

They said officers have been called to the woman's house several times.

None of those neighbors wanted to talk on camera because of fear of retribution from the suspect's sons.

But several people have said that Linda Coulimore is a single mom with two teenage boys who have been accused of causing problems in the neighborhood.

When asked what kinds of problems, one neighbor responded, "Car vandalism and just torment. I know they've tormented other children."

Another neighbor said Coulimore was setting a bad example for her children.

Coulimore is accused of walking into a patient's room at Presbyterian/St. Luke's Medical Center in Denver and taking a pain medication pump that was being used by an Iraq war vet who had just undergone surgery.

Denver police distributed photographs of the alleged thief which were captured by the hospital's security camera system.

Police department spokesman Sonny Jackson said that after Coulimore was identified as a possible suspect, authorities issued an arrest warrant. Weld County deputies executed the warrant and arrested Coulimore at her home in Mead on Friday.

"We've seen police cars at that house numerous times," said one neighbor. "The only surprise is that it was for her this time and not her sons."

Coulimore has since bonded out of jail.

A spokeswoman for the Denver district attorney said formal charges will likely be filed against the suspect later this week.

An individual inside Coulimore's house declined to answer the door when I rang the doorbell seeking comment.

One of the woman's sons told 7NEWS, Saturday, that the image of a woman captured by the hospital's security camera was not his mom's.

Long time Mead resident Gerald Boos told 7NEWS, "I think it's terrible," that someone stole much needed pain medication from a veteran.

Boos said it's hard to understand that a former police officer is accused.

"That makes it even worse in my estimation," Boos said.

Coulimore was an officer at the Longmont police department from 1981 to 1995.

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