Summit County Sheriff's Office

Stranger in the house

A Dillon Valley man arrived home from school last week to find a stranger watching TV in his house.

He arrived home in the afternoon and saw an unfamiliar pair of shoes sitting outside his front door and the television on a court TV program. Thinking his sister was home he went upstairs and came back down to find someone he didn't know kneeling in front of the TV, according to a report from the Summit County Sheriff's Office.

He screamed and ran toward the stranger, ready to punch him, yelling at the man to get out of his house. The trespasser left, crying through an open door and grabbed his coat and shoes on the way out.

Deputies with the sheriff's office were called in to investigate and later found the trespasser at a residence across the street.

The man later said he was under the influence of cigarettes, coffee, marijuana and an asthma inhaler when he went into the house uninvited. He first knocked at the neighbors' house, he later told authorities, but when no one answered, he took off his shoes, went in through the unlocked door and began to pray for the people who lived in the house.

The trespasser was charged with first-degree criminal trespass, a Class V felony. He was not armed when he entered the house or when he was arrested.

Breckenridge Police Department

Spitting devil takes on police

A very drunk man spit at arresting officers last week after punching another patron in a bar in Breckenridge.

The man allegedly punched another customer at the bar without provocation and continued to struggle and fight police who arrived on scene afterward.

The man, who was bleeding from a cut to his lip, was too intoxicated to transport by police car, so authorities called for medical support to take him to the hospital, according to a report from the Breckenridge Police Department.

While waiting for the ambulance to arrive, the man was “growling,” “howling” and at one point spit at one of the officers, who described his behavior as devil-like.

The man was eventually transported to the hospital, where a breath test determined his blood alcohol content to be .369.

The man was issued a summons for assault.

Skis stolen from local lodge

A man staying at a lodge in Breckenridge reported his skis stolen after storing them in a locker on the property.

The man left the gear in the locker and returned to find the code had been changed. Representatives with the lodging company initially tried to track down the skis internally. When they didn't turn up, the owner called the police, according to a report from the department.

They were valued at $900.

Frisco Police Department

Stolen oil change

A woman with Kentucky plates duped employees at a local Grease Monkey out of an oil change earlier this month.

The woman pulled up at the Frisco Grease Monkey requesting the service.

The employee changed her oil and was ringing her up when he was called to the work bay area of the shop. Left alone, the woman grabbed her car keys and drove away without paying, according to a report from the Frisco Police Department.

The oil change was valued at $42.99.

The suspect has not yet been caught.