{"id":2452935,"date":"2020-01-06T18:00:01","date_gmt":"2020-01-07T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/squatter-a-wanted-man-after-no-show-in-court\/"},"modified":"2020-01-06T18:00:01","modified_gmt":"2020-01-07T01:00:01","slug":"squatter-a-wanted-man-after-no-show-in-court","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/squatter-a-wanted-man-after-no-show-in-court\/","title":{"rendered":"Squatter a wanted man after no-show in court"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A convicted felon who insisted on defending himself at trial for trying to assert squatter\u2019s rights on a Mountain Valley home last spring did not show up Monday for a pre-trial hearing and is now a wanted man.<\/p>\n

District Judge Chris Seldin issued a $100,000 cash only bond for Isaac Brehm, 27, and directed court officials to begin proceedings to forfeit Brehm\u2019s $25,000 property bond in the case, for which his mother put up her house.<\/p>\n

Brehm is also wanted in Garfield and Mesa counties on arrest warrants related to minor, misdemeanor charges, Seldin said.<\/p>\n

A friend of Brehm\u2019s who attended Monday\u2019s hearing said Garfield County sheriff\u2019s deputies and U.S. Marshal\u2019s officers have been sent recently to pick up Brehm, though \u201che beats it out the back door\u201d when they arrive, the man said. Brehm is in DeBeque and \u201cjust doesn\u2019t want to go to jail,\u201d the man said.<\/p>\n

Brehm and another man were arrested in March for allegedly living at the home<\/a> on Mountain Laurel Drive, selling off property from it, driving the owner\u2019s car, possession of stolen goods and possession of heroin. At the time, Brehm told Pitkin County sheriff\u2019s deputies he took \u201cadverse possession\u201d of the home in December 2018, though he was not the homeowner and didn\u2019t know the homeowner.<\/p>\n

Brehm, who said he plowed snow from the home\u2019s driveway and did landscaping for two years, directed deputies to a metal container that featured a seven-page affidavit asserting adverse possession. The doctrine, which dates back to English common law, states that if a person occupies a property for a certain period without the owner ejecting them, the person can exercise title over the land, according to legal websites.<\/p>\n

Stolen goods, including a motorcycle, were found at the home, and a deputy estimated that Brehm and the other man did $25,000 worth of damage to the home.<\/p>\n

Brehm faces felony charges of burglary, theft, criminal mischief, drug possession and aggravated motor vehicle theft.<\/p>\n

Throughout his case, Seldin repeatedly urged Brehm to obtain legal representation, though Brehm ignored the advice.<\/p>\n

Brehm has three previous felony convictions, including burglary, and was on probation at the time of his arrest for at least one of those convictions, a prosecutor has said.<\/p>\n

jauslander@aspentimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n

via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A convicted felon who insisted on defending himself at trial for trying to assert squatter\u2019s rights on a Mountain Valley home last spring did not show up Monday for a pre-trial hearing and is now a wanted man. District Judge Chris Seldin issued a $100,000 cash only bond for Isaac Brehm, 27, and directed court […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[49],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2452935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-18 22:22:58","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSPN The Valley's Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2452935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2452935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2452935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2452935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2452935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}