On Oct. 25, the board of directors for the Woodmen Hills Metropolitan District held their regular meeting at the districtís Community Center West in Falcon. RenÈ Sintas, a member of the Cherokee Metropolitan District Board of Directors, addressed the board about an encounter she had with a WHMD board member that prompted her to file a complaint against him with the Colorado Springs Police Department.Sintas said Troy Stinson, WHMD board president and an officer with the CSPD, publicly embarrassed her by asking her during the open forum portion of the meeting if he had ever arrested her.According to the video recording of the meeting posted on WHMDís website, Sintas stood up to make a comment during the public forum. She told Stinson that he looked familiar, and he responded, ìI havenít arrested you, have I?îIn a separate interview, Sintas said she attended the meeting to inform the WHMD board that CMD plans to try to be annexed into the Colorado Springs Utilities water system.Sintas said she was mortified by Stinsonís remark and struggled not to cry while she finished her public comment. ìThe whole place started laughing,î she said. ìThe way he (Stinson) laughed when he said it was so demeaning. It is amazing because he had no clue who I was. After the meeting, people came up to me and said, ëWow, that was pretty awful what he did.íîFollowing the meeting, Sintas said she received phone calls at her home from people she knew asking why she had been arrested.ìNow there is this thing out there that I am possibly a convict, and I serve on a board and you are not allowed to be on a board in Colorado if you have a record,î she said.Sintas turned to the Colorado Springs City Council to report what happened and said the council indicated they would investigate the situation. She also said she filed a complaint against Stinson with the internal affairs division of the CSPD.The NFH contacted Stinson for an interview, and he responded with a ìno comment.î Asked if he had knowledge of the IA investigation about the incident, he said he had no idea.ìThis behavior is unacceptable for a police officer and the president of a board,î Sintas said.Editorís note: The NFH called Lt. Howard Black, public information officer with the CSPD, for details about the investigation, but the call was not returned.
