The Summit County Sheriff’s Office shared more information about the man it arrested May 1 following a multiday manhunt in the area of Bill’s Ranch near Frisco. 

Law enforcement first heard about the suspect when someone reported seeing a masked man leave an unoccupied home in the Moonstone Road area near Breckenridge, according to Sheriff’s Office reports.

In an email to Summit Daily News, Summit County Sheriff’s Office Lt. Mike Schilling wrote that the man appears not to have entered that home, although Sheriff’s Office and Frisco Police Department investigations reportedly tracked him to other homes and cars in Breckenridge and Frisco.

Schilling wrote the man did not look to steal anything specific.

“It seemed like a crime of opportunity,” Schilling wrote. “He is suspected of stealing sports equipment, high-end battery packs, tools, clothes, phones, and watches.”

Deputies attempted a traffic stop on the man April 30, but he failed to yield, according to a news release from the Sheriff’s Office. The man abandoned the stolen car he was driving in the area of Bill’s Ranch near Frisco. Law enforcement suspected he fled into a nearby neighborhood, and officials searched for him into the evening.

The next day, officers responded to a reported vehicle trespass in the town of Frisco, and that suspect matched the description of the suspect from the manhunt, according to Sheriff’s Office reports. The man is now in custody at the Summit County Jail.

The Sheriff’s Office shared the charges on which they arrested the man in a Facebook post. Charges included a felony warrant for his arrest from Garfield County, as well as felony charges for burglary, motor vehicle theft, vehicular eluding, theft and criminal trespass. The man was also charged with several related misdemeanors and petty offenses.

Summit County Sheriff Jamie FitzSimons wrote in an email to Summit Daily News that people who may come to the county expecting to find easy targets for crime instead find people who look out for each other and professional law enforcement across all jurisdictions.

“I urge everyone to always lock their homes and vehicles and report suspicious activity immediately,” FitzSimons wrote. “You never know what it will lead to.”