Deputies opened the car door to try to prevent the driver from leaving but he shifted in reverse, striking a deputy with the door and dragging him several feet.
''Hillyer was arrested Thursday and booked at 3:03 p.m. into the Weld County Jail on one count of sexual conduct in a correctional institution, a Class 5 felony.''
Faudoa had been convicted in 2019 of second-degree assault charges in connection with strangulation. He had been sentenced to six years in prison but had been released after serving 20 months.
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.