WESTMINSTER, Colo. (CBS4) – A Denver police officer is facing domestic violence charges for allegedly attacking his fiancé who is also a Denver officer. 
 
 The alleged incident occurred at a home in a Westminster neighborhood where there was also a brief standoff early last Friday morning. 
 
 Denver Police Officer Lane Gardner allegedly shoved his fiancé in a drunken rage and told her if she called the police she would be dead. 
 
 Neighbors awoke to SWAT teams swarming the neighborhood. 
 
 “There are six, seven, eight SWAT guys right along the fence in full gear,” a 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. 
 
 The victim said Gardner awoke from a drunken stupor and saw her wearing a Denver Fire sweatshirt and accused her of having an affair with a firefighter. The arrest affidavit says he told her “I hope you die” and then shoved her to the ground. She said she blacked out as he ripped the engagement ring off her finger and she felt something hit her face. 
 
 The victim then woke up and went outside and called 911. 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. 
 
 “Like any other neighbor, mowing the lawn, taking walks, doing their thing,” the neighbor said. 
 
 An ambulance took the victim to the hospital to be treated. 
 
 Gardner was arrested hours later after a standoff with police. 
 
 As the Denver officer recovers from her injuries, neighbors are looking for answers. 
 
 “You never expect that, so you just kind of go with it,” the neighbor said. 
 
 Gardner has been charged with domestic violence and battery in Westminster. He’s been placed on desk duty with the Denver Police Department pending the results of the investigation. ||||| Please enable Javascript to watch this video 
 
 WESTMINSTER, Colo. -- A Denver policeman was arrested Friday morning at his Westminster home for allegedly assaulting his fiancee, who is also a Denver police officer. 
 
 Lane Gardner, 48, and Jennifer Jaidinger, 42, have lived in the home in the 7000 block of West 110th Avenue since February. Now, he has a restraining order against him and can’t go there. 
 
 The incident happened Friday morning when police allege Gardner hit Jaidinger in the face. The entire right side of her face is battered, bruised and swollen. 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. 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. 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. 
 
 Gardner turned himself in at the Westminster Police Department on Monday. He's charged with simple assault battery domestic violence, a misdemeanor. 
 
 This is not Gardner’s first brush with the law. In May 1985 he was arrested for obstructing Wheat Ridge police and in February 1993 he was arrested on the same charge in Denver. 
 
 Gardner is a 12-year veteran with Denver Police. He’s currently serving behind a desk during the investigation. ||||| 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. 
 
 Officer Jennifer Jaidinger, 42, said Gardner was drunk and began arguing with her about where she'd been. 
 
 The affidavit states, "Lane got upset that she was wearing a firefighter shirt as he suspects her of cheating on him with a firefighter." 
 
 The arguing escalated until Gardner pushed her off the bed and she hit the floor, passing out for a while. 
 
 The affidavit states that Jaidinger awoke to find Gardner standing over her. 
 
 She said she felt pain in her right eye and told police, "Lane must have punched me when I passed out." 
 
 When responding officers saw Jaidinger’s injuries, they called firefighter paramedics. The paramedics transported her to Good Samaritan Hospital. 
 
 Officers tried to contact Gardner, knocking on the door and calling him on the phone. There was no response. 
 
 While all this was going on, neighbors say they received automated phone calls instructing them to stay indoors. 
 
 “I went out to retrieve my newspaper,” one neighbor said. “I heard a man’s voice, turned around and saw an officer with a big rifle in his hands telling me to get back in the house. He also told me to ‘kill’ the (porch) light. That’s how my day started.” 
 
 Another neighbor said he looked out the window and saw SWAT Team members taking up positions around the neighbor’s house. 
 
 “I called my wife over to check it out,” he said. “We waved at the SWAT Team, they waved back. We got a call from Westminster Police a few seconds later asking us to back away from the window, they were in full operation.” 
 
 The neighbors say they never saw police take anyone into custody. 
 
 A police investigator who interviewed Jaidinger at the hospital noted in the arrest affidavit that her right eye was heavily swollen. Jaidinger also had an abrasion that was 2- to 3-inches long on her right rib area. She said the abrasion happened when Gardner shoved her off the bed. 
 
 According to the affidavit, she told police that "Lane is very unstable," and there are several guns in the house. 
 
 She also told them that that "Lane is a heavy drinker and usually will drink a half bottle of whiskey daily." 
 
 The alleged suspect and victim have been in a relationship for about 2 1/2 years. 
 
 Neighbors say the couple moved into the house about two months ago. 
 
 Jaidinger declined an on camera interview but allowed 7NEWS to photograph her injuries. 
 
 The right side of her face is still swollen and discolored. 
 
 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 surrendered to Westminster police on an arrest warrant Monday. He appeared in Westminster Municipal Court and was released after posting $1,500 bond. 
 
 A judge issued a protection order, which prohibits Gardner from contacting the alleged victim. 
 
 One neighbor said she saw Gardner and another woman, accompanied by three officers, return to the home Monday to retrieve some of his belongings. 
 
 Jaidinger said it wasn’t Gardner who showed up, it was his twin brother. 
 
 Gardner has two prior arrests for obstructing/police interference, one in Wheat Ridge in 1985 and the other in Denver in 1993. He pleaded guilty to the Denver police interference incident, according to court records. 
 
 A Denver Police Department spokeswoman confirmed that two officers are now occupying "administrative" positions, but did not explain why.
– 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.