Jim Shires Quotations

One of our biggest concerns is to find the burglar and to recover these items as well as the keys.

Now the investigation is focusing on the home-invasion robbery. He's been taken to the sheriff's office to be interviewed to see what his involvement is, or to see if anyone else was involved.

He may have been a suspect in the home invasion but may have been a victim in some type of assault, after the home invasion robbery.

He said he had been assaulted. He had been beaten up. We don't know to what extent.

Our investigators are working as diligently as they can.

Our main concern is that anyone who did business with any of these businesses, check their credit card statements closely to make sure all the charges are theirs.

We need a lot of consistent moisture. Conditions in the forest are ripe to explode.

We don?t know that any charges will be filed, but we have to eliminate other causes as well to remove any reasonable doubt should any charges be filed. We have to eliminate other causes, including a train going through and sparking the fire.

We don't know if he's unconscious. We don't know if his cell phone is no longer working, if the battery's gone dead. We don't know why we haven't received contact from him lately.

We have gotten some information from a person that may have witnessed something, and we have contacted three or four people of interest. There have been no arrests.

The recent rain that?s come in the middle of the night, or even the snowfall last week, might be misleading. People think there's some moisture, so that should minimize the fire danger. We want to prepare our citizens and visitors to Jefferson County for the potential fire dangers.

There have been no new developments. Many people have been talked to and interviewed but no one has been arrested and named as a suspect.

The siding of the cabin was metal and . . . they would light the stick on fire and use the blackened portion of it to write their names with. And, as they were doing that, burning embers would fall onto the grassy area. That's how we feel the fire started.

It's very difficult to isolate exactly the hours spent on the investigation.

It's cold and there's a fire. It doesn't make any sense.

It's not breaking in if they have the keys. It's difficult to say whether someone is a victim of these people. Somebody goes into someplace and steals a small item and it's not noticed for a couple of weeks.

Anytime that an arrest is not eminent after a crime is committed, it becomes more and more challenging for investigators.

In the back seat, we found items that had been taken from a courier truck stolen in Denver on March 6.

These five individuals do not live in that area as well, so that strengthens the case about why they were there, should they have been there, and what were they doing there.

The driver left the vehicle running when he was in a business and it was taken.

The developing investigation indicates that Peterson may have committed this crime many times in the past.