 WESTMINSTER, Colo. - A veteran Denver police officer was arrested Monday and charged with misdemeanor assault, three days after the Westminster Police Department SWAT Team surrounded his house and tried to take him into custody. The arrest affidavit, obtained by 7NEWS, states that Officer Lane Warren Gardner, 48, allegedly punched his fiancé in the face and told her if she called the cops, "she'd be dead." The victim, a fellow Denver police officer, told investigators she'd returned to their home, on the 7700 block of W. 110th Avenue, early Friday morning and found Gardner in the master bedroom. An arrest affidavit reads that at about 3 a.m. Friday, “Lane was drunk and began arguing with her about where she was.” 
 
 Jaidinger said Gardner “got upset that she was wearing a firefighter shirt as he suspects her of cheating on him with a firefighter.” 
 
 The affidavit also said, “Lane pushed her off the bed causing her to fall to the ground. She felt pain to her right eye and stated, “Lane must have punched me when I was passed out.” 
 
 Jaidinger called 911 and told police “there are several guns in the residence and Lane is very unstable.” The affidavit said Gardner previously had made statements about “shooting it out with officers.” 
 
 For that reason, Westminster’s SWAT team was called out to the normally quiet neighborhood. But after repeated unanswered phone calls and shouts at the door, police felt it best to walk away. “Like any other neighbor, mowing the lawn, taking walks, doing their thing,” the neighbor said. “There’s a sniper across the street.” 
 
 CBS4’s Tom Mustin spoke to the victim who didn’t want to comment on camera but allowed CBS4 to take video of her injuries. Neighbors awoke to SWAT teams swarming the neighborhood. While falling to the ground, Jennifer stated she sustained an abrasion on the right side of her rib area.” 
 
 Jaidinger said she then passed out for an unknown amount of time and woke up to Gardner standing over her. The incident happened Friday morning when police allege Gardner hit Jaidinger in the face. She told the operator that Gardner had several weapons inside the home and he talked about “shooting it out with officers.” 
 
 Neighbors say the couple had just recently moved into the neighborhood. The entire right side of her face is battered, bruised and swollen. When asked if the couple were engaged, she said they had been, but that Gardner yanked the ring off her finger, after shoving her off the bed. Gardner turned himself in at the Westminster Police Department on Monday. Jaidinger said it wasn’t Gardner who showed up, it was his twin brother. In May 1985 he was arrested for obstructing Wheat Ridge police and in February 1993 he was arrested on the same charge in Denver.
– A Denver police officer allegedly assaulted his fiancee—who is also a Denver officer—because he thought she was cheating on him with a firefighter, ABC 7 reports. Jennifer Jaidinger, 42, arrived home early last Friday morning to find Lane Gardner, 48, drunk and demanding to know where she had been. According to what she told police, Gardner suspected she was sleeping with a firefighter because she was wearing a Denver Fire sweatshirt at the time, CBS Denver reports. Gardner allegedly ripped the engagement ring off her finger and pushed her off the bed, knocking her unconscious. When she came to, she had a pain in her eye and thinks her fiance of 2 1/2 years hit her while she was knocked out. In her 911 call, Jaidinger described her fiance as "very unstable" and claimed he had made earlier comments about "shooting it out with officers." A SWAT team duly arrived Friday, shouted at his door, and made phone calls that went unanswered, FOX 31 reports. But SWAT backed away that day and Gardner turned himself in Monday to face a domestic-violence assault charge. Jaidinger describes him as "a heavy drinker and usually will drink a half bottle of whiskey daily," according to an affidavit. She also said he told her that if she notified police, she'd "be dead." Gardner, a 12-year Denver police veteran, is on desk duty during the investigation.