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Former Sheriff Sullivan's Suspected Meth Dealer Arrested

Written by Brian Maass

DENVER (CBS4) - CBS4 has learned that police have arrested Timothy Faase of Denver, suspected of being a meth supplier for former Arapahoe County Sheriff Pat Sullivan.

A SWAT team arrested Faase, 49, late Tuesday night at his Denver apartment at 1090 Clarkson Street.

"I heard the crash and a window broke and the cops said get back inside my room. The cops were in full uniform and they had their rifles," said Victor Trujillo, Faase's next door neighbor.

Sources familiar with the case said police were conducting surveillance on Sullivan Tuesday, and followed him to Faase's ground floor apartment in Denver's Capitol Hill neighborhood.

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Pat Sullivan
Pat Sullivan in court on Wednesday (credit: CBS)

After meeting with Faase, Sullivan continued on to a home in Aurora where he was arrested after allegedly trying to trade meth for sex with a male acquaintance.

Police believe the meth Sullivan brought to the Aurora home was obtained at Faase's apartment. So several hours after Sullivan's arrest, police, armed with a search warrant, hit Faase's home.

"I'm not sure what he does, but he's always here," said another of Faase's neighbors, Daryl Cantrell.

Cantrell and other neighbors said Faase had many visitors every day, usually stopping by for about 10 minutes.

Neighbors described Faase as a nice, helpful neighbor. On Thursday afternoon a plywood board covered his broken window.

The Colorado Bureau of Investigation shows Faase was born in Wisconsin and that Tuesday's arrest was his first felony arrest in Colorado.

Faase is being held in the Denver Jail on $25,000 bail. He is facing one count of possession of more than 2 grams of methamphetamine and a second count of distribution of methamphetamine.

Faase declined a CBS4 interview request Thursday afternoon.

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