DENVER — A Denver Police Officer was arrested and suspended without pay Friday after an Internal Affairs investigation. 
 
 Officer Julian Archuleta faces charges of misdemeanor theft, 1st degree official misconduct and tampering with physical evidence. 
 
 According to an arrest affidavit, Officer Archuleta responded to a call of shots fired in the early morning hours of October 7. After a short pursuit the suspects rolled their vehicle. The driver ran away from the scene but the passenger was left unconscious in the passenger seat. 
 
 During the call Officer Archuleta was wearing a body camera. Video from the camera shows him searching the suspect's clothing after it was removed by paramedics. 
 
 He discovers an unknown amount of cash and sets it on the passenger seat. One stack of bills in the video contains a $100 bill on the outside of the stack. Officer Archuleta is seen separating that $100 bill and other bills that were stacked inside it. 
 
 The camera pans away from the passenger seat and when the seat is back in view there are no large bills visible. 
 
 A detective collected evidence from the scene including suspected narcotics, a firearm and cash totaling $118 according to the affidavit. No $100 bills were collected and there was no mention of $100 bills in Officer Archuleta's written report. 
 
 A detective notified the Internal Affairs Bureau after watching Archuleta's body camera video. 
 
 After he was contacted by Internal Affairs on October 10, Officer Archuleta told a detective that he found 12 $100 bills in his war bag and that the money "must have fallen in his bag." 
 
 He later turned that money over to Internal Affairs but declined to make a statement. 
 
 Officer Archuleta is also accused of moving evidence inside the vehicle before a search warrant was issued. 
 
 The Denver District Attorney is expected to file formal charges early next week. 
 
 Officer Archuleta joined the Department in 2004 and was assigned to the Patrol. 
 
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 A veteran Denver Police Department officer has been arrested after he recorded himself with his body camera as he allegedly stole $1,200 from a suspect during a shooting investigation. 
 
 Julian Archuleta, 48, was arrested Thursday on suspicion of felony tampering with physical evidence and misdemeanors of first-degree official misconduct and theft, according to his arrest affidavit. Archuleta was booked into the Downtown Detention Center and suspended without pay, pending the investigation, the Denver Police Department said in a news release. 
 
 The police department said Archuleta’s alleged actions blew a criminal investigation into a shooting, and a suspect was never charged because of it. 
 
 Archuleta has worked as a Denver cop since 2004 and was assigned as a patrol officer in District 1, which covers the northwest part of the city. 
 
 His arrest is the first time a Denver police body camera has led to a criminal charge against an officer. 
 
 Denver police officers began wearing body cameras earlier this year. The police department said the cameras would help with criminal investigations, while the public has wanted the cameras to monitor police conduct. 
 
 On Oct. 7, Archuleta responded to a car crash that happened after other officers had pursued a suspect in a shooting. Archuleta’s body camera recorded 24 minutes and 40 seconds of footage as he took pictures of the scene and searched the suspect’s clothing after it was removed by paramedics, the arrest affidavit said. 
 
 In the footage, Archuleta discovers a stack of cash with a $100 bill on top, the affidavit said. He is seen separating the $100 bill from the stack, and a $1 bill remains on top. 
 
 Throughout the footage, Archuleta shuffles money and rearranges paperwork in his patrol car, the affidavit said. 
 
 When a detective collected the cash and logged it into the property bureau as evidence, he counted $118 and did not find any $100 bills, the affidavit said. But while reviewing Archuleta’s body camera footage as part of the investigation, the detective noticed the $100 bill. 
 
 The detective reported his discovery to the internal affairs bureau. When confronted, Archuleta called a detective and said he would “check his war bag” and would look to see if the money had slipped into a crevice in his car, the affidavit said. 
 
 An hour later, Archuleta called the detective and said he found 12 $100 bills that “must have fallen in his bag,” the affidavit said. He turned over the money on Oct. 10, the same day he was notified of the internal investigation. 
 
 The Denver district attorney’s office declined to prosecute the shooting suspect because of the missing cash and because Archuleta allegedly moved evidence inside the suspect’s vehicle before detectives had a search warrant, the affidavit said. 
 
 Archuleta’s arrest is the second time this month that Denver police have charged one of their own. 
 
 Last week, Denver officer Anselmo (Sal) Jaramillo was charged with two misdemeanor accounts of prohibited use of weapons after he placed a handgun on a desk at police department headquarters and pointed the barrel toward a colleague, according to a copy of his summons.
– A Denver cop who claimed $1,200 "must have fallen into his bag" at the scene of a car crash was arrested and suspended without pay after footage from his own body camera told a different story. The footage showed Julian Archuleta, a 48-year-old who has been on the force since 2004, responding to a report of shots being fired earlier this month, reports the Denver Post. When the suspects rolled over their car after a short chase, one fled the scene while the other was unconscious in the vehicle. Archuleta's body camera captured him removing money from the suspect's clothing after it had been cut away by paramedics. In the footage, Archuleta could be seen reshuffling the money and removing a $100 bill from a stack of bills, 9News reports. He was contacted by Internal Affairs after a detective reviewed the footage and noticed that there had been no $100 bills recovered from the scene. Archuleta told them he would "check his war bag" and later claimed to have discovered 12 $100 bills that "must have fallen" in there. He faces a felony charge of tampering with physical evidence and misdemeanor charges of first-degree official misconduct and theft. Police say that because of his actions, the shooting investigation was blown and the suspect was never charged. (These officers got in hot water over a video involving edible marijuana goodies.)