Barry Morphew was arrested at approximately 9:11 p.m. Thursday night in unincorporated Boulder County, Colorado, by the Boulder County Sheriff's Office on an Alamosa County warrant for failure to comply with his bond conditions. A judge had granted prosecutors' request for a warrant and set a $3 million cash-only bond earlier this month, citing Morphew as an "extreme flight risk." Morphew was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Boulder County Jail, where he will await transportation to Alamosa County for a bond hearing on Tuesday.
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Murder suspect Barry Morphew is back behind bars after a Colorado judge granted prosecutors' request for an arrest warrant.
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Morphew was arrested Thursday night in unincorporated Boulder County on an Alamosa County warrant for failure to comply.
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The Boulder County Sheriff's Office said deputies located and arrested him at approximately 9:11 p.m.
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He was taken into custody without incident and booked into the Boulder County Jail.
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The arrest came just hours after prosecutors filed a verified application asking the court to issue a warrant and modify
.In an order signed Sept. 3
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, the judge granted that request, writing that a bench warrant should issue and setting bond at $3 million cash only with nationwide extradition.
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The order also set a bond hearing for Sept. 8 at 1:30 p.m. and requires Morphew to appear in person.
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In their filing, prosecutors said GPS monitoring data showed Morphew left his home under a work exception to his bond conditions on Aug. 26.
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Instead, prosecutors said the data showed Morphew drove to Denver International Airport.
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According to the filing, Morphew's attorneys told prosecutors he does not work at the airport and said it was possible he had gone there to pick up his daughter.
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Prosecutors argued that regardless of the reason, the trip violated the terms of his release because he had only been authorized to leave home for work.
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The filing described the airport trip as evidence of what prosecutors called an "extreme flight risk."
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Prosecutors also said video and GPS information provided by Morphew's monitoring company showed him driving from his home to the airport around 10 a.m., arriving around 11:45 a.m. and then leaving the airport.
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They said he was later tracked near hotels and a mall before traveling to the area of East 8th Avenue and Colorado Boulevard in Denver.
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That same area is where Morphew was involved in a hit-and-run incident
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showed a man later identified by the judge as Morphew after a collision near 8th and Colorado.
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The video showed the driver refusing to provide identification or insurance information, offering one of the drivers cash and later leaving the scene.
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Morphew has not been charged in connection with that incident.
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The newly filed court records now show prosecutors were reviewing his GPS data from that same day as they investigated whether he had violated the conditions of his release.
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Another order filed Friday directs authorities to physically transport Morphew from the Boulder County Jail to Alamosa for Tuesday's bond hearing.
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Morphew is awaiting trial on a charge of first-degree murder after deliberation in
, Suzanne Morphew.
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He has pleaded not guilty and has denied killing her.
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