CO Woman Melody Mellon ID’d As Suspect Accused Of Stealing Dog From Dying Longmont Veteran Robert Corbey

LONGMONT, CO. (THECOUNT) — Melody Mellon has been identified as the Colorado woman accused of stealing a dog from veteran, Robert Corbey, who died after having a seizure outside a Longmont 7 Eleven.

Mellon, 30, was arrested by police after they revealed an arrest in the case on Thursday.

“Early this morning just before 5 am, 8/1/19, Longmont Police responded to a call for service to investigate a motor vehicle theft involving suspect Melody Mellon, age 30. During their investigation, Ms. Mellon was also identified as the suspect in the missing Sampson (dog) investigation,” police wrote. The dog owner who died was Robert Corbey, a 59-year-old veteran, according to Heavy.

The jail booking report says that Mellon, who was born in 1988, was taken into custody at 6:58 a.m. on August 1.

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Geo quick facts: Longmont is a Home Rule Municipality in Boulder and Weld counties of the U.S. state of Colorado. Longmont is located northeast of the county seat of Boulder and 33 miles north-northwest of the Colorado State Capitol in Denver. Longmont’s population was 86,270 at the time of the 2010 U.S. Census – Wikipedia.