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prompted the lockdown of Pitkin County’s administrative offices for two days last week.
Pitkin County District Judge Chris Seldin said he had no option but to set bond for Andrew Johnston rather than release him from custody due to his failure to honor a previous court order forbidding his contact with another person.
Seldin said Johnston might benefit greater from mental health treatment instead of jail time during the duration of his cases. Yet that was not an alternative for Seldin in the case against Johnston, who has not been clinically diagnosed with any mental health issues.
“But society does not provide me with that option,” Seldin said. “Instead, it provides me with the option of either incarcerating Mr. Johnston, and these jails are tasked with the difficult job of trying not only to serve as a correctional facility, but also as a mental health treatment facility.”
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Nikos Hecht in a Pitkin County Jail mugshot from his domestic violence arrest in July 2015. A booking mugshot from his latest arrest was not available Friday.
Clad only in his underwear and high on drugs, a local developer and hedge fund manager held a gun to his head Thursday night outside a relative’s home near Aspen and threatened to kill himself, according to police reports.
Nikos Hecht, 50, admitted to police he’d consumed alcohol, marijuana and cocaine half-an-hour before driving his Range Rover to the home and crashing it into another car parked in the driveway. He then allegedly began banging on a front window with a bloody hand while holding the black Beretta handgun to his head and demanding to speak to a person inside, the reports state.