Tight security around Invesco Field
By Tillie Fong, Rocky Mountain News (Contact)
Published August 28, 2008 at 5:38 a.m.
Updated August 28, 2008 at 5:38 a.m.
Photo by Brian Lehmann © The Rocky
The Secret Service digs through equipment as news crews make the move from the Pepsi Center to Invesco Field early Thursday morning.
INVESCO FIELD -- A helicopter can be heard circling over Invesco Field in the early morning hours.
A security fence has been erected overnight that encompasses more than the immediate area around the stadium. Side streets are blocked off and also fenced off, with bright klieg lights set up everywhere.
The media tents have been set up earlier, as are all the satellite trucks. A SWAT team could be seen hanging out near one entrance.
A hapless female security guard tried to talk her way pass a security checkpoint, where a police car is parked across the way past a fence.
"I was trying to get some coffee to a friend inside," she said. "But I can't get in."
Inside the perimeter, police officers in golf carts and patrol cars can be seen driving by. An SUV with police officers hanging outside the vehicle pulls into one of the blocked off streets to the stadium. The markings on the SUV indicate that it's with Wheat Ridge police.
A big white tent has been set up across Dick Connor Avenue, with a smaller tent set up on one side. But the entrance to the street is also closed off by a fence, with a couple of police cars parked inside the barrier.
A security guard in a parked SUV also check the credentials of people entering the parking lot of a city building that overlooks the stadium. A number of trucks drive in after showing their ID.
A lone bicyclist, apparently a resident, turns into a side street that is lined on one side by a perimeter fence. "Excuse me," he said, as he pedals by.
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