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investigate it.

e investigation is ongoing with a nal meeting scheduled for April 25, and Romero’s attorney expected to have more items for discovery from that meeting.

Generally, discovery is when the prosecution provides information, documents and other materials regarding a given case to the defense.

e prosecutors didn’t object to delaying Romero’s preliminary hearing, and the judge agreed that there was good cause to delay it. She also ordered that, at the May 9 hearing, Romero should be brought from the jail to attend the hearing in-person.

The Feb. 13 incident

According to Romero’s arrest afdavit, police initially contacted him as a suspected DUI case in the early hours on Feb. 13. He ed police custody and hid near the Mines campus, admitting later that he knew he had multiple warrants for his arrest.

Despite the proximity to cam- pus, Mines o cials have clari ed Romero is not associated with the university. e a davit stated Romero has a recent criminal history of forgery, theft and DUI cases. He also has a revoked driver’s license as a habitual tra c o ender.

After he was arrested, investigators reportedly found that he was driving a stolen car and carrying an ID that was not his own.

K-9 Gra t, who’d been with JCSO since 2015, died at the scene Feb. 13. Deputy Zachary Oliver, his handler, has described how Gra t was a very driven and obedient dog, who never backed down from a task. He was a very social dog who loved attention both with Oliver’s family and JCSO deputies.

“He was my partner, my best friend, and most of all, my family,” Oliver said at Gra t’s memorial service Feb. 27. “ ... He gave his life that day. He took a bullet that wasn’t meant for him.”