{"id":220778,"date":"2026-06-16T21:11:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:11:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220778\/"},"modified":"2026-06-16T21:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-16T21:11:11","slug":"boulder-cop-faces-domestic-violence-official-misconduct-charges-city-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/220778\/","title":{"rendered":"Boulder cop faces domestic violence, official misconduct charges, city says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Boulder police officer has been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, the City of Boulder announced Monday. <\/p>\n<p>The officer, Matthew Herkalo, 24, faces misdemeanor charges of domestic violence and official misconduct, according to a release from the city. He is currently on paid administrative leave, per department policy, the release said. <\/p>\n<p>According to the city, Erie police had been investigating the alleged off-duty incidents, and Herkalo &#8220;turned himself in&#8221; and was arrested by Erie police Monday. Denver7 has requested additional information. <\/p>\n<p>Records show he was booked into the Boulder County Jail on Monday evening. <\/p>\n<p>Herkalo has been an officer with Boulder PD since July 2024, according to the city. <\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story that may be updated. <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Coloradans making a difference | Denver7 featured videos<\/p>\n<p class=\"cms-textAlign-left\">Denver7 is committed to making a difference in our community by standing up for what&#8217;s right, listening, lending a helping hand and following through on promises. See that work in action, in the videos above. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Boulder police officer has been arrested on suspicion of domestic violence, the City of Boulder announced Monday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220779,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[6836,96126,96127,96128,1675,96129,96130,96131,96132,5835,136,138,137],"class_list":["post-220778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-boulder","tag-boulder-cop-arrested","tag-boulder-cop-dv","tag-boulder-cop-in-jail","tag-boulder-county","tag-boulder-county-jail","tag-boulder-police","tag-boulder-police-department","tag-boulder-police-officer-arrested","tag-domestic-violence","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220778","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=220778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}