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Rolex ties alleged bike thief to Aspen housebreaking, police say
A 31-year-old man arrested Friday in Glenwood Springs was charged Monday with breaking in to the house of a rich Aspen actual property developer and allegedly stealing thousands and thousands of {dollars}’ price of jewellery and watches.
Nicholas Henderson of Glenwood Springs is dealing with many years in jail after a Pitkin County Sheriff’s Workplace investigator tied him to an Aug. 6 housebreaking on the house of developer Nikos Hecht, based on prosecutor Don Nottingham and proof introduced at Henderson’s court docket advisement Monday.
Authorities arrested Eleanore Louise Davis, 28, final week on a cost of second-degree housebreaking and theft of thousands and thousands of {dollars}’ price of watches and different gadgets from Hecht’s Owl Creek Highway house.
On Monday, regardless of District Decide Chris Seldin repeatedly warning Henderson to not tackle the substance of the fees towards him, Henderson admitted being acquainted with Davis.
“I do know the co-defendant Ms. Davis,” Henderson mentioned. “She hates me. She’d sooner kill me.”
Rolex watches, jewellery and airsoft weapons had been allegedly stolen from Hecht’s house whereas he was vacationing within the Bahamas. And it was a Rolex on Henderson’s wrist that Aspen police say tie him to the theft, based on court docket paperwork.
Henderson first got here to the eye of Aspen law enforcement officials Aug. 19 after he was suspected of stealing gadgets from the Miner’s Constructing on Essential Road in downtown Aspen, based on a warrantless arrest affidavit filed Friday in Pitkin County District Courtroom. He allegedly stole $60 price of instruments from the enterprise, Nottingham mentioned Monday.
Police say they discovered these stolen gadgets on Henderson on Aug. 19 and issued him a summons for the crime. Whereas he was nonetheless in custody, Henderson requested officers to contact a buddy of his who was ready in a automobile parked throughout the alley from the Miner’s Constructing, the affidavit states.
The officers drove Henderson to the world the place his 2005 Chevrolet Blazer was parked. Simply earlier than officers uncuffed Henderson after issuing him a misdemeanor summons for the Miner’s Constructing theft, one of many officers seen the watch he was carrying, based on the affidavit.
“(The officer) famous that Mr. Henderson had a pleasant watch,” the affidavit states. “It had a Rolex label. Mr. Henderson implied that it was a faux.”
The officers and Henderson then walked over to the Blazer parked close by and seen two bicycles within the again. An officer requested Henderson if he may take footage of the serial numbers hooked up to the bikes and Henderson agreed, although he requested to be current when the images had been taken, based on the affidavit.
The primary bike — a 2020 Trek Rail 9.7 electrical mountain bike valued at $6,500 — turned out to have been stolen July 24 from the again of a automobile parked within the 600 block of East Hopkins Avenue in Aspen, the affidavit states. The second bike — a Yeti SB130 — had been stolen from the Carbondale location of Basalt Bike and Ski, based on the doc.
Henderson was charged with felony theft between $5,000 and $20,000 for the e-bike theft. He’s additionally been charged with misdemeanor theft in 2005 and 2006 and felony theft in 2007 in New Hampshire, the affidavit states. He additionally was wished in Rifle for failing to seem in court docket on one other theft cost, based on the affidavit.
However the officers let Henderson go Aug. 19 they usually found Friday the bikes had been stolen, based on the affidavit.
Within the meantime, Glenwood Springs law enforcement officials arrested Henderson on Friday on a warrant associated to the Yeti theft, and found weapons and three watches belonging to Hecht in Henderson’s backpack, Nottingham mentioned Monday. He additionally mentioned that airsoft weapons and handguns had been present in Henderson’s Blazer after it was impounded.
“Gadgets had been discovered within the automobile that match (the Hecht) case,” Nottingham mentioned.
Henderson requested Monday to be launched on a private recognizance bond and promised he would present up for all court docket hearings. He mentioned he’s lived in Glenwood Springs most of his life, bought out of the navy after 4 years in 2011 and has labored for eight years at a neighborhood sheet metallic firm.
“I do know I’ve created myself just a little little bit of a sticky state of affairs,” he mentioned. “I’ll go to work and I’ll go to court docket and I’ll do what I gotta do.”
Seldin, nonetheless, declined to challenge a private recognizance bond. As a substitute he ordered Henderson held within the Pitkin County Jail in lieu of a $100,000 bond. Davis additionally remained incarcerated Monday on the jail, based on the jail’s web site.