One of two Republican candidates in Douglas County’s Senate District 2 has a lengthy criminal and civil court case history, beginning in 1988 and continuing until 2022, Colorado Politics has learned.
Court records show 39 separate civil and criminal cases, in which Timothy Arvidson has been the defendant in 30.
Arvidson’s criminal past includes domestic violence, four DUI charges between 1992 and 2006 and multiple restraining orders between 1996 to 2010. The criminal and civil complaints stretched across six separate jurisdictions: Arapahoe, El Paso, Jefferson, Denver, Douglas and Summit counties.
“I’ve made mistakes in my past, I’ve owned them and own up to everything I have in my past. Everything in my past is 20 or 30 years ago,” Arvidson, 62, told Colorado Politics.
His most recent criminal charge stemmed out of not wearing a mask at a grocery store during COVID, in which he slapped a cell phone out of the hand of a person who — Arvidson said — stuck a phone in his face. The report from Castle Rock police said Arvidson was believed to be armed with a handgun during the incident, although he subsequently denied it. The police also reported that Arvidson told them he had been a public safety commissioner for two years. “Do you know who I am,” Arvidson told the police.
