A 40-year-old man led three Roaring Fork Valley police agencies on a chase that ended with officers pulling weapons on the man after he crashed on Highway 82 near Emma.
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A former El Jebel resident who allegedly took a 3-year-old girl from her mother’s car 13 years ago and molested her in a nearby yard was extradited back to Aspen to face charges this week, a prosecutor said Tuesday.
Miguel Franco-Hernandez, 54, was ordered held in lieu of a $50,000 cash-only bond during an advisement Monday, said Deputy District Attorney Don Nottingham. Franco-Hernandez faces charges of second-degree kidnapping with intent to commit a sexual offense, sexual assault on a child and second-degree criminal trespassing, according to Nottingham and court documents.
Franco-Hernandez, also known as “Martin Fuentes,” was arrested in Texas on the Pitkin County warrant and extradited to Aspen. The allegations in the case are “very disturbing,” Nottingham said Tuesday.
A notorious con man and lifelong thief caught four years ago living in a well-appointed cabin he built on Aspen Mountain is back in town and back in trouble.
James Hogue, 61, was arrested Monday by Aspen police officers investigating a burglary and charged with parking illegally and stealing power from a nearby apartment building, said APD Sgt. Mike Tracey. Hogue was not taken to jail and, instead, issued a summons for trespassing and tampering, which are low-level offenses.
Aspen police continue to investigate the burglary, which took place inside the parking garage of an apartment building in the 200 block of East Cooper Avenue, Tracey said.