The former girlfriend of Colorado House Speaker Doug Dean withdrew the restraining order Tuesday that she obtained against Dean after she said that he broke into her house last week. Officials, Lawmakers React To Dean Incident Dean (pictured, left), a Republican from Colorado Springs, and Gloria Sanak, a pharmaceutical industry lobbyist from Denver, had been living together and planned to get married, according to Dean. Dean, 41, said that Sanak, 35, stayed home while he went out for dinner on May 9 and when he called to check on her, she broke up with him and left his belongings on her porch. Dean said that he used a screwdriver to enter her house through a basement window to retrieve a cell phone charger and to check on Sanak. Dean said that he surprised Sanak in the house and she fled to a neighbor's house to call police. "He waited in the dark for 30 minutes until I arrived home," Sanak wrote in her original request for a restraining order. "He had a screwdriver in his hand. He chased me down the street to a neighbor's house and refused to leave until police escorted him away." Dean was not arrested. Dean said at a brief news conference Tuesday morning that there was no attempt at violence and that he had broken no laws. He told reporters that he still cares for Sanak but has no hope of reconciling with her. In a motion to dismiss the restraining order, Sanak wrote that Dean peacefully removed his belongings from her home and that there was no further need for the order. There were questions Tuesday about why the house speaker wasn't arrested, 7NEWS reporter Lance Hernandez said. Dean had no comment, and went out of his way to avoid reporters, Hernandez said. "If she in any way feels threatened, if there is any harm, any harassment, anything like that, then it needs to be looked into -- it needs to be investigated," Zori Rodriguez, of the Colorado Coalition Against Domestic Violence, said. Police said that Dean did not get preferential treatment. "The information given at the time she responded to file for a restraining order was different than the information she provided to our officers that night," police spokesperson Virginia Lopez said. One of Dean's fellow legislators said that the case should be allowed to play itself out through the legal system. "I feel for Doug. I want to respect his privacy," Rep. Dan Grossman, the House minority leader, said. "I just want to make sure that he feels personally supported by his colleagues down here, and that law enforcement is allowed to do it's job in a fair and adequate manner," Grossman said. Dean told colleagues in a letter that he felt that the incident was a personal issue, and he apologized for the embarrassment that he caused the House, Hernandez said. Dean was first elected to the legislature in November 1996, and he is up for re-election in November 2002. Previous Story:

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