Man reports stolen car in Snowmass

A Snowmass resident reported his car was stolen from Lot 2 of the Snowmass Mall last week.

The 46-year-old man said he left his white 2006 Ford Taurus at 9 p.m. on Oct. 9. The car was gone when he returned around 3pm on October 11, as were the golf clubs he had left in the car.

The man, who wished to remain anonymous and has lived on and off in the Roaring Fork Valley since 1999, said he had never had to worry about theft in the past. He would leave his car and his house unlocked.

“I have lived here for 25 years. I have never taken the keys out of my car. “Never,” the man said, adding, “I think I’m less angry that the car was ripped off than that this is happening here.”

Snowmass Police Chief Brian Olson said there is an ongoing investigation into the car.

“We checked every corner and every parking lot in the area just in case it becomes a joyride within the village,” Olson said.

He said he wasn’t sure under what circumstances the white bull disappeared and they wouldn’t know until they found him and could back out.

Every few years they get a report of a stolen car, but many are misplaced – not stolen. In this case, however, they had searched the entire Snowmass area for the car and had not yet found it, he said.

“We’re treating it like it was stolen, continuing to search and we couldn’t find it at the scene,” Olson said. “(We) are starting to expand our ability to look a little further to see if we can maybe figure out where it went.”

He said they had posted a report about the stolen car on the national crime computer system. So if the car is stopped or found and a police officer checks the license plate, they would see that it is a stolen vehicle.

He did not comment on how it might have been stolen or who might have stolen it. They would not know the motive for the theft until they found the car and the responsible party, he added.

“We’re confident it’s no longer here,” Olson said. “And now all you have to do is wait for someone to come across it so it can be identified as stolen.”

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