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If there is a warrant out for your arrest, there are better places to hide out than, say, unconscious in a roadway.

But Basalt police say that’s just where a 26-year-old man with a $5,000 warrant out of Pitkin County was on Tuesday night — passed out in the road outside of Stubbie’s Sports Bar and the Alpine Liquor Store.

Police believe the intoxicated man’s friends might have dragged him out of the bar and left him. “That’s what we think, but he may have also stumbled out and fallen on his own,” said Basalt Police Sgt. Stu Curry.

The man was jailed on an old warrant for theft. No additional charges were filed for sleeping in the road.

In other local crime news:
— Married life sucks sometimes, as a local husband who was allegedly beaten with a vacuum cleaner by his wife can attest. The 32-year-old wife allegedly returned to their Streamside Apartments home Saturday and found her husband had not done the dishes, as he had promised.

She allegedly swung the vacuum cleaner at him, breaking both the vac and his arm. Then she allegedly struck him in the head with a broken piece. She is facing domestic violence charges.

— When his roommate came home a little before 8 p.m. Saturday night, Timothy J. Hosfield was drunk and sitting on the couch with a vodka bottle, according to a Pitkin County Sheriff’s office report.

Hosfield allegedly said he was going to hit the roommate with the vodka bottle.

When his roommate turned his back, Hosfield allegedly went ahead and hit him with the vodka bottle. He was arrested for felony second-degree assault.

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Snowmass Village police responding to a fight at Zane’s Tavern on Friday night say the men had fled the scene. They got descriptions of the men from witnesses, and soon allegedly found them arguing on nearby Daly Lane. They charged Alexis Perez, 31, and Christopher Castaldo, 23, for disorderly conduct fighting.

A subsequent search of Perez allegedly turned up a pair of brass knuckles, which are outlawed in Colorado and carry a misdemeanor charge for possession of an illegal weapon. Police did not say why the men were fighting, but did say Castaldo is dating Perez’s sister.

— A 33-year-old man was allegedly found urinating in a hallway at the Wildwood Lodge in Snowmass Village after 1 a.m. Saturday. Hotel security detained him and turned him over to police. He is charged with disorderly conduct.

— Belly Up staff reported an underage drinker to police late Saturday night. The alleged drinker told police she drank a rum and Coke. Police cited her for underage drinking.

— Upper valley authorities reported six drunk-driving arrests this week:

A driver was reportedly close to driving off of Brush Creek Road last Thursday at around 8:30 p.m. When a sheriff’s deputy pulled him over, Louis Garcia, 26, allegedly failed a roadside sobriety test and did not have a valid driver’s license.

A liquor store clerk in Basalt called police Friday night, saying a group had come in too drunk to be served. The police later caught up with the car on the road and arrested the driver, Piper McDougall, for allegeddrunken driving.

After a report of a wobbly and weaving motorcyclist at the roundabout, Aspen police reportedly saw Robert Carillo, 51, nearly topple his bike, causing a series of sparks on the road with his right foot peg. Police say he admitted to drinking “a couple of beers” and failed a roadside sobriety test. He was arrested for alleged drunken driving and weaving.

When Basalt police pulled him over Saturday afternoon at 5:30, Duane Franklin allegedly said he was coming home from a round of golf. Police say he was drunk. They arrested him for DUI.

Shortly after closing time Saturday night, police say, Rene Orellana ran a stoplight on Two Rivers Road, and then blew a .139 on a breathalyzer test.

Aspen police say they spotted a man driving down Main Street with one headlight on shortly before 1 a.m. Wednesday. They allege that Trevan Flynn, 19, was also excessively drunk.

— Compiled by Andrew Travers