As an allegedly highly intoxicated and uncooperative John Boyett was handcuffed in the back of a patrol car Monday evening, police were unable to read him his rights because the Broncos practice squad safety kept repeatedly telling the arresting officer to "contact his boss, John Elway."
Elway is not Boyett's boss, anymore. After the Broncos read details of the Greenwood Village Police Department's report on Boyett's arrest, Elway, the team's general manager, announced Thursday afternoon the safety had been released.
In summary, according to the police report, Boyett was highly intoxicated, threatened a bartender at a sports bar where he ate, drank and did shots, was belligerent to his fellow patrons, assaulted a cab driver, stole a shovel from a construction site so he could whack the cab driver, fled the scene and tried to hide from police by trying to bury himself under mulch.
And then as he was handcuffed and placed in the back of a patrol vehicle, Boyett, 24, repeatedly yelled at an officer to contact his boss "John Elway."