{"id":1316187,"date":"2019-10-28T15:08:07","date_gmt":"2019-10-28T21:08:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=990219"},"modified":"2019-10-28T15:08:07","modified_gmt":"2019-10-28T21:08:07","slug":"man-who-jumped-bail-twice-in-eagle-county-to-flee-to-texas-sentenced-to-colorado-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/man-who-jumped-bail-twice-in-eagle-county-to-flee-to-texas-sentenced-to-colorado-prison\/","title":{"rendered":"Man who jumped bail twice in Eagle County to flee to Texas sentenced to Colorado prison"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Zachary Rozelle had to be fetched from Texas twice after jumping bail. He was returned Eagle County and sentenced Monday to 18 months in a Colorado prison. <\/strong>
Special to Vail Daily<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

EAGLE \u2014 Zachary Rozelle\u2019s next van ride won\u2019t take as long.<\/p>\n

Rozelle had to be fetched from Texas \u2014 twice \u2014 where Keith Hawkin, his Eagle County bondsman, found him doing all kinds of things including dodging felony warrants. For both trips, the private prisoner transport company\u2019s sojourn took around three weeks.<\/p>\n

His next van ride will be much less arduous. Rozelle was sentenced Monday to 18 months in a Colorado prison.<\/p>\n

Heroin and Bimbo\u2019s Bar<\/h3>\n

It was January 2018 when Vail police spotted Rozelle behind a Vail Village store. They immediately noticed he was impaired, prosecutors said during Monday\u2019s hearing.<\/p>\n

A quick search of his truck uncovered eight grams of heroin.<\/p>\n

He was arrested, booked and was bailed out. He jumped bail and headed to Texas, where he was arrested and spent three weeks in a van trekking from the Lone Star State to the Centennial State.<\/p>\n

The private security companies that transfer prisoners tend to take circuitous routes. Hawkins explained that from Texas, the company might take three weeks and stop by Arkansas to pick up a prisoner, swing down to Oklahoma to drop one off, and then head to Colorado \u2026 all with prisoners like Rozelle along for the ride in the company\u2019s van. The prisoners stay in jails along the way.<\/p>\n

Rozelle apparently did not mind his first ride that much. He jumped bail again and headed back to Texas, which made him a fugitive from Eagle County \u2026 again.<\/p>\n

Rozelle\u2019s court-appointed defense attorney said Rozelle could not afford to stay in the Vail Valley and decided to return to Texas to help support his pregnant wife.<\/p>\n

Hawkins tracked him to Bimbo\u2019s Beer & Bar BQ, a biker bar outside Houston.<\/p>\n

Law enforcement officials in the Houston area loaded Rozelle into another prisoner transport van for a second circuitous trip from Houston to Eagle County.<\/p>\n

Rozelle was one of Hawkins\u2019 bond clients. When someone jumps bail and bolts, the bonding company tracks down them and pays to have them brought back.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do all this at zero cost to the taxpayer,\u201d Hawkins said.<\/p>\n

It was not zero cost to Hawkins, though. He had to pay the $1,200 transport fee for Rozelle\u2019s latest sojourn.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not zero cost to Rozelle, either. District Court Judge Russell Granger ordered him Monday to pay $2,431.15 in restitution, most to the Eagle County Sheriff\u2019s Office.<\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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