As the hour inched toward midnight at Belly Up Aspen’s campy “’80s Prom Night” Saturday, not everyone was making out and slow dancing to Poison’s “Every Rose Has Its Thorn” on the club’s sunken dance floor.
Police say that owner Michael Goldberg and patron Daniel Wettstein had taken it outside and were in a “heated argument” on Galena Street when they arrived. When police told Wettstein, 23, to step away from the fight, he allegedly clenched his fists and charged toward an Aspen police officer. He was arrested and cited for disorderly conduct.
In other local crime news
— Alvaro Perez, 23, was arrested Tuesday evening for allegedly head-butting another man at the Mountain Chalet in Aspen. The victim said Perez had fled the scene and gone to Cooper Street Pier. Aspen police later found Perez and arrested him for assault and battery.
— An Aspen Village man found himself in some unexpectedly deep trouble after allegedly running a stop sign on Main Street early Saturday morning. The driver, Frederick Benner, reportedly told police he was new to Aspen, that his passenger was drunk, that he was driving him home, and that he could park the car and take the bus if they preferred. Police said he had bloodshot eyes, smelled of alcohol and had had his license suspended for previous alcohol and marijuana-related offenses. And he was three weeks from turning 21.
Benner allegedly failed a sobriety test and had a pipe and some marijuana on him. He was arrested on six different offenses for the incident.
— Aspen police officer Rick Magnuson stopped driver Roxanne Crittendon, 22, after observing her red Jeep swerve into an oncoming lane and hit a curb on Rio Grande Place early Tuesday morning,
Crittendon said she was trying to catch a bus, according to a police report.
Magnuson said the buses stopped running at midnight, and it was almost 4 a.m.
Crittendon allegedly failed a sobriety test. Magnuson arrested her for drunk driving and weaving.
— A local man was arrested at Belly Up in the early morning of Friday, May 2 for underage drinking just a month shy of his 21st birthday. Police say they came upon Jonathan Vanderhorst as he was outside of the club arguing with bouncers, who had thrown him out. When they asked him for identification, he said he didn’t have a wallet. A bouncer then reportedly handed Vanderhorst’s wallet to police, who arrested him for being a minor in possession of alcohol and trespassing.
— Compiled By Andrew Travers
