A report of a man surfing in the back of a white Chevy pickup truck on Highway 82 led Pitkin County sheriff’s deputies on the lookout for the rogue thrill-seeker last Thursday night.
The truck reportedly pulled into the Buttermilk parking lot, and authorities never caught up with it.
In other local police news:
— An apparent alleyway brawl among five men two weeks ago resulted in the arrest of a Basalt man on Monday. A witness identified Daniel Perez-Mejia, 31, as the instigator of the fight behind Jimmy’s restaurant. Police arrested him for disorderly conduct.
— At 2:35 a.m. Monday, Aspen police say, they found a man in the concession stand of the Isis Theater. The local man, Ridgwan Reketai Dube, 20, told police he was a former employee. He was cited for trespassing.
— A group of kids were reportedly racing up and down Aspen’s Mill Street inside shopping carts on Tuesday night. Police investigated the supermarket street sweep, but made no arrests.
— Two women called Aspen police Tuesday, via cell phone, saying they had accidentally locked themselves inside a local storage unit. They have since been freed.
— The Colorado State Patrol reported that a man driving down Brush Creek Road in a tire-mounting truck last Friday became distracted by a bee, and while swatting at it, hit a guard rail and ran off the road. He was uninjured.
— Police responding to a noise complaint last Thursday at a Cooper Avenue apartment were surprised to find nearly 20 people inside, with allegedly attendant noise. Police arrested the three lease holders — Juan Jose Fidelio, Sebastian Norberto Cabral and Juan Ignacio Cavanna — for disorderly conduct.
— There was $6,000 in computer equipment reported stolen from a man’s Dodge Durango at the Snowmass Village Mall on Saturday. Oddly, the man reported his truck was locked when he left it — with the equipment inside — and locked when he found it the next morning, empty, with no signs of a break-in.
— Aspen police made three arrests at the Belly Up nightclub this week. The first, 20-year-old Christopher Dalton of South Carolina, allegedly refused to leave the club after 2 a.m. Friday. Police say the underage man was drinking.
The second and third arrests were reported by club staff during Sunday night’s reggae concert. Police hauled in Anna Blad, 18, of New Hampshire, and a juvenile woman for sharing a drink they reportedly said they did not know was alcoholic.
