{"id":2457756,"date":"2020-04-27T22:48:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-28T04:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/news-briefs-snowmass-man-back-in-jail-traffic-light-work-and-more\/"},"modified":"2020-04-27T22:48:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-28T04:48:00","slug":"news-briefs-snowmass-man-back-in-jail-traffic-light-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/local-news\/news-briefs-snowmass-man-back-in-jail-traffic-light-work\/","title":{"rendered":"News briefs: Snowmass man back in jail, traffic light work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadLarge\">Released from prison and back behind bars<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">A Snowmass Village man who appears to have been released early from prison was back in jail Sunday after renewing a habit of making threats against a local law enforcement official, according to court documents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Jeremiah Casper, 42, was arrested by Pitkin County sheriff\u2019s deputies Sunday after Snowmass Village Police Chief Brian Olson reported receiving more than 30 threatening emails from him in a short period, according to an arrest warrant affidavit filed in Pitkin County District Court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The court documents also included an email from Casper\u2019s former attorney to Olson saying it \u201clooks like Jeremiah is out of custody\u201d and attaching a threat to Olson sent to the lawyer.<\/p>\n<div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"col\" readability=\"6\">\n<div class=\"row at-donation at-donation-mobile p-0\" readability=\"7\">\n<div class=\"col-xl-4 p-2\">\n<div data-bg=\"url(https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png)\" class=\"p-0 mt-2 mb-2 h-75 text-center rocket-lazyload\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.aspentimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2020\/03\/AT-logo-white.png\" class=\"logo m-0 p-0 invisible\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><h3 class=\"d-inline mr-3\">Support Local Journalism<\/h3>\n<p><button class=\"btn d-inline\" type=\"button\" onclick=\"handleDonationButtonClickMidArticle()\">Donate<\/button><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Olson told a sheriff\u2019s investigator he took the threats from Casper seriously and was worried about this family\u2019s safety, according to the affidavit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Casper was arrested and charged with stalking, menacing and intimidating a witness \u2014 all felonies \u2014 as well as misdemeanor harassment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Casper sent threatening emails to Olson and other Snowmass Village police officers almost exactly two years ago when he was charged with three counts of misdemeanor harassment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">He was convicted of burglary and theft in December 2018 for stealing meat and alcohol from a Snowmass hotel, and sentenced to three-and-a-half years in prison in April 2019, said prosecutor Don Nottingham. That sentence was set to run consecutively to a separate two-year sentence he received in Eagle County, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">It was not clear why Casper was released from prison, though Gov. Jared Polis has directed the state\u2019s Department of Corrections to reduce prison populations because of the virus. An email Monday to a corrections spokesperson seeking comment was not immediately returned.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadLarge\">Coroner: No pre-March COVID-19 deaths<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Officials at the Pitkin County Coroner\u2019s Office went back through records from January and February and found no deaths that might have been caused by the corona virus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">That\u2019s according to Coroner Steve Ayers, who said the only case that might possibly have been related was that of a 21-year-old woman from Miami who died New Year\u2019s Day at the Pine Creek Cookhouse. The death was attributed to the woman\u2019s asthma and does not appear linked to COVID-19, Ayers said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Two Pitkin County men have died from COVID-19, a 94-year-old and a 55-year-old.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText HeadLarge\">ABC stoplight lifted into place<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Repairs to the damaged stoplight at the intersection of Highway 82 and the Aspen Business Center continued Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Crews lifted the repaired stoplight arm into place Monday that extends over the upvalley lanes at the intersection as traffic was detoured to the airport frontage road. Eastbound traffic will be routed into one lane Tuesday as crews affix the stoplight head and signage.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The project will finish Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The city of Aspen paid about $72,000 to fix the light after one of its dump truck drivers drove through the intersection with the bed up after dumping snow nearby. The truck bed toppled the stoplight arm, and led to a much smaller, temporary light controlling upvalley traffic for the past couple months.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">Few details on teen sex assault arrest<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">A detective with the Pitkin County Sheriff\u2019s Office arrested a 16-year-old boy Friday and charged him with sexual assault.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The boy was arrested in Carbondale by Detective Bruce Benjamin, according to an arrest report. No other details were available Monday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"STND-STND BriefText\">The office\u2019s records custodian said in an email it would be \u201ccontrary to the public interest\u201d to release details about the case.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aspentimes.com\/news\/news-briefs-snowmass-man-back-in-jail-traffic-light-work-and-more\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: The Aspen Times<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Released from prison and back behind bars A Snowmass Village man who appears to have been released early from prison was back in jail Sunday after renewing a habit of making threats against a local law enforcement official, according to court documents. Jeremiah Casper, 42, was arrested by Pitkin County sheriff\u2019s deputies Sunday after Snowmass [&hellip;]<\/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-2457756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-08-17 22:14:49","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&#039;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\/2457756","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=2457756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2457756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2457756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2457756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2457756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}