A Basalt man got burnt by police after his car caught fire.

Responding to a Fourth of July call of a flaming pickup truck on Homestead Drive, police found Raymond Boyd, 50, standing by his Ford Ranger.

The truck was on fire, but police say Boyd was lit.

They report that the intoxicated Boyd said he was not driving the truck when it caught fire, but witnesses reported otherwise. Basalt police arrested him for drunken driving, and allege that, in a subsequent search, they found a bag of cocaine on him. Whether the fire was related to his alleged crapulence is unclear; Boyd refused a chemical test.

“We don’t know why the car was on fire,” said Basalt Police Sgt. Stu Curry.

In other Fourth of July weekend crime news:

— A bouncer from Club Chelsea who drove to Basalt for a fight got slapped with felony assault charges after he and his posse allegedly beat his opponent unconscious in the early morning after Independence Day.

Police say Albert Wunder, 27, made the trip downvalley to the Pan and Fork trailer park to fight a 23-year-old man. Wunder arrived in the early morning, police say, with three friends in tow. They say the man was outside waiting for Wunder, but when he saw the group, he hit one with a rock and then ran.

Wunder and his friends allegedly chased the man down and caught him near the intersection of Midland Avenue and Two Rivers Road. Then they allegedly beat him until they had rendered him unconscious and caused him severe injury, including two broken eye sockets.

The man was hospitalized, and police issued a warrant for Wunder on a felony assault charge. He turned himself in yesterday.

— Snowmass Village Police arrested a 21-year old man Thursday night after two alleged drinking incidents. And he is pissed about the aftermath.

Police say Sean Riley was on the Snowmass Village Mall with an open beer. When they stopped him, police say, Riley denied the beer was his and then drank it. They gave him a warning.

Later, police say, they spotted Riley on the porch at the Big Hoss Grill, drinking a beer he had brought from elsewhere. When they confronted him, Riley reportedly became argumentative, so they cited him for an open container violation and took him to the Pitkin County Jail to sober up.

Riley was restrained while in the jail, jailers say, because he was banging on the jail’s wall and they feared he might break his hand. Riley says they strapped him to a chair for eight hours, left him to urinate on himself three times, and treated him like Rodney King (see related letter, page 8).

— Only two alleged drunk drivers were arrested between Aspen and Basalt during the Independence Day weekend. Statewide, 450 DUI arrests were made, 67 in Denver alone.

At 2:40 a.m. on July 5, Aspen police pulled over a California man for allegedly weaving on Main Street.

When he pulled over, police say, Justin Leonard, 22, placed his keys on the car’s roof. When they asked him why he did that, police say, he responded that he is from Los Angeles. When they asked him to do a roadside sobriety test, police say, he failed it, and when they searched him, they found marijuana in an Altoids case in his pocket. They arrested Leonard for drunken driving and marijuana possession.

— Basalt police pulled over a car for allegedly weaving, and found the driver, Manuel Garay-Gonzalez, 20, allegedly intoxicated. They arrested him for driving drunk, drinking underage and driving without a license.

— Just before 4 a.m. the morning after Independence Day, police responded to a call of a drunken man who had entered Hunter Creek Longhouse after being asked to leave. They found the man, Brad Unglert, “intoxicated and confused” outside of Longhouse and arrested him for trespassing.

— Basalt police say that Michael “Captain Mike” Bryan began his celebrating even before the holiday weekend. They report that Bryan, 43, walked into his East Valley Road home “extremely intoxicated” after a night on the town Wednesday. They say he punched his female roommate in the leg. Then, when his other roommate pulled him away from her, he allegedly punched him in the mouth. Captain Mike was arrested for assault and delivered to detox.

— Compiled by Andrew Travers