A second Loveland police officer was arrested this week and has been charged with assault and child abuse, the Loveland Police Department reported in a news release Thursday.
Wilbert Howard, 53, is in custody after an incident reported Nov. 2 at a residence in Fort Collins. Loveland police did not specify what the incident was but said in the news release they cannot give any additional information “due to statutory protections regarding juvenile victims.”
Howard, who has worked for the department for 17 years, was off-duty at the time of the incident, police said.
The incident does not have any connection to his official duty as a police officer, which allegedly is not the case with the first now-former Loveland police officer arrested earlier this week.
Dylan Miller, 28, was arrested Monday after a teenage girl came forward and said Miller sexually assaulted her several days after he conducted a traffic stop on her and several other people in late July.
Several days later, the girl and another person were at a Loveland park after hours when Miller contacted them, told the other person to leave and made the girl walk with him to a secluded area, where he assaulted her, the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office said in a news release.
Miller was fired Monday, Loveland Police Chief Tim Doran said in a news conference.
Howard is on administrative leave and is the subject of an internal investigation in addition to the Fort Collins criminal investigation.
Miller was hired in May 2022, police said.
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