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   About a year and a half before being named the suspect in a mass   
   shooting at an LGBTQ nightclub in Colorado Springs, Anderson Lee   
   Aldrich was arrested after making bomb threats, threatening to   
   kill family members and talking about becoming “the next mass   
   killer,” according to court records unsealed Thursday.   
      
   Aldrich, 22, was arrested in June 2021 on several counts of   
   felony menacing and first-degree kidnapping after making threats   
   that disrupted a residential street in Colorado Springs, Colo.,   
   and led to a standoff with authorities, the unsealed records   
   show.   
      
   But the case was dismissed more than a year later in August 2022   
   because the victims — the suspect's grandparents and mother —   
   dodged subpoenas and did not cooperate with authorities, leading   
   the defense to argue Aldrich's constitutional right to a speedy   
   trial was at risk, Michael J. Allen, the district attorney for   
   the Fourth Judicial District, which includes Colorado Springs,   
   said at a news conference Thursday.   
      
   At one pretrial hearing in the months following the threats, the   
   suspect’s family described Aldrich as “loving” and said they did   
   not deserve to be in jail, the prosecutor said.   
      
   Records were sealed at the request of the suspect, according to   
   prosecutors.   
      
   Authorities have previously declined to discuss the 2021 case,   
   citing Colorado state law that seals records when cases are   
   dropped and prohibits officials from acknowledging any records   
   exist.   
      
   Judge Robin Lynn Chittum of the Fourth Judicial District ruled   
   the seal be lifted Thursday, saying public interest in the case   
   outweighed the suspect’s right to privacy. According to the   
   Associated Press, the judge said scrutiny of judicial cases is   
   “foundational to our system of government.”   
      
   “The only way for that scrutiny to occur is for this to be   
   unsealed,” she said.   
      
   The Associated Press had previously reported on portions of the   
   documents earlier this week before they were unsealed.   
      
   Allen said that his office, as well as news agencies and the El   
   Paso County Sheriff’s Office in Colorado, had filed motions to   
   unseal the case after the Nov. 19 shooting.   
      
   Weapons and bomb-making materials confiscated during the 2021   
   case were seized and held as evidence, Allen said. The suspect   
   attempted to reclaim the weapons but was denied, he said.   
      
   The case has raised questions on why Colorado’s "red flag" laws   
   were not used, given the threats Aldrich made in 2021. In a   
   statement Thursday, El Paso County Sheriff Bill Elder said there   
   was no need to ask for a red-flag order because Aldrich's   
   weapons had already been seized as part of the arrest and the   
   suspect couldn’t buy new ones. A protective order was in place   
   through July 2022, authorities said.   
      
   The sheriff also rejected the idea that he could have asked for   
   a red-flag order after the case was dismissed in August. The   
   bombing case was too old to argue there was danger in the near   
   future, Elder said, and the evidence was sealed a month after   
   the dismissal and couldn’t be used.   
      
   Attorneys for Aldrich have said the suspect identifies as   
   nonbinary and uses they/them pronouns.   
      
   According to a June 2021 arrest affidavit from the El Paso   
   County Sheriff's Office, the incident began June 18 at Aldrich's   
   grandparents’ home in Colorado Springs, after Aldrich became   
   furious when the grandparents said they were selling the house   
   and moving to Florida. Aldrich told the grandparents, Pamela and   
   Jonathan Pullen, not to move, because it "would interfere with   
   [the suspect's] plans to conduct a mass shooting and bombing,”   
   the report said.   
      
   Aldrich had also described amassing “ammunition, firearms and   
   bullet-proof body armor” and storing it in the grandparents’   
   basement to become the "next mass killer." The report states   
   that the grandparents had been living in fear of Aldrich, whom   
      
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