Cameron Schultz

Convicted by guilty plea to a bias-motivated crime. Cameron Schultz pleaded guilty, under a May 2026 plea agreement, to driving under the influence, menacing, and a bias-motivated crime for a drunken, racist confrontation in which he shouted slurs at a Hispanic landscaper and stole his work truck. He received probation rather than prison.

Introduction

Cameron Schultz is a 33-year-old Greeley, Colorado man who was sentenced on November 13, 2026 to two years of supervised probation and 90 days of electronic home monitoring for a June 2025 incident in which he drunkenly shouted racial slurs at a Hispanic landscaper, threatened to kill him, and stole his work truck. Weld County District Court Judge Sean Lacefield imposed the sentence after Schultz pleaded guilty, as part of a May plea deal, to driving under the influence, menacing, and a bias-motivated crime for placing the victim in fear. Charges of driving after revocation and motor vehicle theft were dismissed under the agreement, according to Colorado court records.

Background Information

The incident occurred around 5 p.m. on June 9, 2025, when Schultz drove past the victim in a red SUV and shouted slurs at him, then told him, “If I want to, I can kill you right now,” according to the victim’s account to police. Schultz stole the victim’s work truck, and the victim could hear him revving the engine and taunting him as he drove away. Schultz then returned to the scene on foot to retrieve his personal car, where police arrested him. According to arrest records, he told police he needed to go to jail for stealing the truck, said he had drunk five beers earlier in the day, and did not remember exactly what happened.

The Controversy or Incident That Led to Their Cancellation

The conduct Schultz pleaded to was explicitly racial: a bias-motivated crime charge, to which he pleaded guilty along with menacing and DUI, rests on his targeting of the victim because he is Hispanic and on the threat that placed the victim in fear. The case moved slowly through the Weld County courts — Schultz entered his pleas in May 2026, nearly a year after the incident — and the sentencing hearing a year and a half after the theft became the occasion for the victim to describe what the attack had cost him. Through a translator, the victim said the incident has made him lose his sense of safety. He said he immigrated to the United States to work and provide for his family and is grateful for that opportunity, but that the incident has tainted his image of the country, and he fears he may encounter another crime targeting him again.

Public Reaction and Consequences

Judge Lacefield addressed the racial character of the crime directly at sentencing, noting that about one-third of Weld County residents are Hispanic and calling the targeting of a Hispanic worker who was just looking to provide for his family troubling. He also weighed mitigation: Schultz has completed a sobriety course and has shown remorse, the judge said. The sentence combines supervision and consequence — two years of supervised probation, 90 days of electronic home monitoring, 60 hours of community service, monitored sobriety, and a diversity and equity sensitivity class — along with court and probation fees, the cost of which was not immediately available online. The victim’s statement, delivered through a translator, stood as the public accounting of the harm.

Current Status

Schultz, 33, is a convicted felon by plea in Colorado state court, serving two years of supervised probation imposed November 13, 2026, with 90 days on electronic home monitoring, and is required to complete community service, monitored sobriety, and the court-ordered sensitivity class. The dismissed counts — driving after revocation and motor vehicle theft — are closed under the plea agreement, leaving the bias-motivated crime conviction, menacing, and DUI as the record. No appeal was reported, and the sentencing concluded the criminal case.

Impact on Their Career/Life

The conviction puts a bias-motivated crime on Schultz’s record permanently — a felony finding that follows him through employment, housing, and background checks — and ties his freedom for the next two years to probation compliance, sobriety monitoring, and the treatment-adjacent coursework the judge ordered. The 90 days of electronic home monitoring mark the beginning of that supervision. For the victim, a landscaper who came to the United States to work and support his family, the case closed with a judicial acknowledgment, in the judge’s own framing, that the crime was aimed at who he is; the victim told the court the episode has changed how safe he feels in the country he immigrated to. For Schultz, the practical effect is two years under court supervision with the sobriety and equity requirements as the stated path to completing it.

Sources

• Greeley Tribune, “Greeley man gets probation for threatening, shouting racial slurs at landscaper before stealing his truck,” November 13, 2026 — source