Student leader arrested for falsely reporting threats; he resigns

[The Straight Story]

Student leader arrested for falsely reporting threats; he resigns

Alray Nelson, the student body president at Fort Lewis College, resigned Tuesday afternoon, just hours before he was arrested and served a summons on suspicion of falsely reporting to police that he has received threats.
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Nelson, who is openly gay and Navajo, reported several bias-motivated threats against him, including notes left on his car, harassing text messages sent to his cell phone and harassing e-mails, said Alex Hutchison, a detective with the Durango Police Department.

Hutchison said Nelson also claimed to have been drugged downtown, but police suspect that claim is false, too.

“During the course of our investigation, we determined that these incidents did not occur, and there is evidence to believe that Alray filed false reports with multiple law-enforcement agencies,” he said.

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