{"id":2455324,"date":"2020-03-03T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T05:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/?p=322005"},"modified":"2020-03-03T22:45:00","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T05:45:00","slug":"basalt-cops-were-on-to-suspect-before-robbery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/basalt-cops-were-on-to-suspect-before-robbery\/","title":{"rendered":"Basalt cops were on to suspect before robbery"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Hayden May<\/strong>
Aspen Police Departmart<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

Police had already identified Hayden May as the prime suspect in the bungled burglary of a Basalt marijuana dispensary five days before he allegedly robbed the same store at knifepoint Sunday.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s according to court documents filed in Pitkin County District Court, including a second arrest warrant affidavit posted late Monday charging May with the Feb. 18 Roots Rx burglary, in which the culprit was caught on video crashing through the store\u2019s ceiling after hiding out inside the building.<\/p>\n

That means the 26-year-old May \u2014 who pleaded guilty to robbing an Aspen marijuana dispensary with a hammer in 2015 \u2014 now faces four felony charges of burglary, aggravated robbery, menacing and theft plus second-degree trespassing and criminal mischief, both misdemeanors.<\/p>\n

On Monday in his first appearance in District Court, May and his public defender seemed to indicate he was innocent of the robbery charges. Lawyer Ashley Andrews said May had an alibi for the Sunday night robbery and called witness identification of him \u201cshaky.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to court documents, a female Roots Rx employee who was ordered to open the store\u2019s cash registers recognized May\u2019s voice and eyes<\/a> and called him by his first name because he is a regular customer there. May made purchases at the store four times in the eight days before the burglary, though none since, according to the second affidavit.<\/p>\n

Basalt police, however, already identified May as the suspect in the Feb. 18 burglary at Roots Rx before the armed robbery Sunday, the documents state.<\/p>\n

After a story about the burglary<\/a> and a photo of the suspect ran in The Aspen Times, a man called Basalt police and said the photo looked like May, according to the affidavit. Another person who saw him near the dispensary bathrooms several hours before the Feb. 18 burglary also tentatively identified May as the suspect.<\/p>\n

Police later searched May\u2019s house and found the exact clothing the burglar was wearing, including a jacket covered in what appeared to be drywall and Sorel winter boots with multi-colored laces.<\/p>\n

Surveillance video inside the store caught the burglary suspect entering the building three times between 6:45 p.m. and 7:25 p.m. After the last entrance, the man \u201chid behind a tall stack of retail boxes near the restroom until the employees closed and left the building around (8:15 p.m.),\u201d according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n

The man then stands on a counter, hoists himself up into the \u201cattic,\u201d crawls about 8 feet through the ceiling, then kicks out ceiling tiles and insulation sheets and drops on to a glass counter about 8:45 p.m., knocking two glass bongs to the floor, the document states.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when alarms sound and he flees.<\/p>\n

May is due back in court March 16.<\/p>\n

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

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

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