A woman filed a lawsuit against the Dacono Police Department last week, as well as the Weld County Sheriff’s Office, after officers allegedly “unleashed an assault” on her.

The Denver Legal Team, led by attorney Michael Meaux, filed a complaint against two Dacono Police Department officers and one Weld County Sheriff’s Office deputy on behalf of 44-year-old Erin Faulhaber, claiming that the officers gave the woman life-threatening injuries after tasing and tackling her on March 6, 2024.

Bodycam footage showed Faulhaber being tased multiple times and being thrown from the vehicle in the parking lot of her son’s high school.

The incident started as retaliation by police, according to the lawsuit.

Faulhaber was getting ready to take her daughter to school when an officer entered her garage without a warrant, according to the complaint. The officer was asking questions about a vehicle Faulhaber was storing for her boyfriend’s parents.

The woman eventually left the home and later attempted to file a complaint at the Dacono City Hall and police station. The woman claimed officials at both locations did not allow her to file the complaint against the officer.

Later, in the bodycam footage, officers said they had recovered a stolen vehicle from her house earlier in the day.

Around 5:30 p.m., the woman was heading to pick her 15-year-old son up from school when she noticed she was being followed by Dacono officers. She was then pulled over by Weld County Sheriff’s Office Deputy Aaron McKay.

Due to her interactions with the police earlier in the day, Faulhaber pulled out her phone to record the stop.

DPD Ofc. Jessie Lambert appeared at the scene. McKay claimed Faulhaber would not provide him with documentation, according to Lambert’s body camera footage.

As Lambert approached, Faulhaber said hello. Lambert began pulling the door open and Faulhaber said to stop and screamed for someone to get help, the video shows.

Lambert then grabbed the woman by the arm and threatened to tase her. Faulhaber replied, “You’re going to get tased,” and then Lambert pressed a taser against her leg for over five seconds, according to the video.

Both Deputy McKay and Ofc. Samuel Ayres helped pull the woman from the vehicle.

The officers held her on the ground, handcuffed her and pulled the taser prongs from her leg.

Faulhaber’s son watched from outside of the school, with his step-mother saying he was scared, according to the lawsuit.

Lambert told the step-mother and Faulhaber’s son that the woman jumped the median and ran while they attempted to stop her. He also claimed that they attempted to get her out “nicely” and she started punching, kicking and putting the car in drive.

Lambert also claimed that Faulhaber pulled at her face and was going to jail for “several felonies.”

The son then claimed that the mother may have been on drugs, and he had seen drugs in her possession prior to the day. The step-mother claimed that Faulhaber had lost full custody of her two oldest children.

The woman was arrested and eventually charged with 12 counts, including drug possession and assaulting police officers.

Faulhaber’s lawyers also claimed she was harassed at the hospital after the arrest, and “allowed Officer Lambert to watch her undress and then stare at her naked body,” according to the complaint.

Faulhaber eventually pleaded guilty to assaulting a police officer and felony menacing. She was sentenced in October 2025 to two years of probation with a deferred sentence, according to court records.

Still, the woman’s lawyers claimed that Lambert acted with an unjustified amount of force because Faulhaber was not actively resisting arrest. Furthermore, the other two officers did not intervene.

“Defendants’ use of deadly force against plaintiff, as described herein, was
objectively unreasonable and disproportionate in light of the circumstances confronting them before and during the encounter with plaintiff,” the lawyers wrote.

The lawyers demanded a jury trial on the matter.

The Weld County Sheriff’s Office declined to make a statement on the ongoing lawsuit.

The Denver Gazette reached out to the Dacono Police Department regarding the lawsuit and the employment status of the two officers, if any internal investigations were conducted on the arrest, but did not hear back by the time this story published.