{"id":220168,"date":"2026-06-16T05:27:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220168\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T05:27:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T05:27:15","slug":"boulder-officer-arrested-on-domestic-violence-charge-in-erie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220168\/","title":{"rendered":"Boulder officer arrested on domestic violence charge in Erie"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Boulder police officer was arrested Monday afternoon in Erie on a domestic violence charge.<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Herkalo faces charges of domestic violence harassment and official misconduct, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1DWtkmmGb8\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boulder police news release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Herkalo, who has been an officer with the Boulder Police Department since July 2024, was off-duty when the reported incident happened, according to the release. Additional information about the situation, including an arrest affidavit, was not immediately available.<\/p>\n<p>The department placed Herkalo on paid administrative leave, per department policy.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story and may be updated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Boulder police officer was arrested Monday afternoon in Erie on a domestic violence charge. Matthew Herkalo faces&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220169,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6836,1675,1676,7250,202,136,138,137,1677,241,182,139],"class_list":["post-220168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-boulder","tag-boulder-county","tag-colorado","tag-colorado-news","tag-crime-and-public-safety","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-front-range","tag-latest-headlines","tag-local-news","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220168\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}