Weld County Sheriff's Office

The suspect, a 60-year-old white man, was pronounced dead at the scene.

But investigators don't think he is the same person who allegedly impersonated a police officer in several incidents in northern Colorado at the start of the COVID-19 outbreak.

With the help of the FBI's Rocky Mountain Safe Streets Task Force, Van Auken was tracked to a Denver hotel, where he was arrested.

She later released the bird in a body of water.

Traffic stops conducted by a police impersonator have been reported in both Larmer County and Weld County.