Footprints in the Colorado Springs snow lead to the arrest of a car theft suspect hiding in a home, police said.
At about 11:45 p.m. Thursday Springs police spotted a vehicle being driven in a “suspicious” manner, according to the police blotter.
The driver “made several quick turns in an effort to evade” police, but officers found the vehicle, with no one in it, in the alley on the 00 block of Bonfoy Avenue.
Officers determined that the vehicle was stolen and with the help of a police dog they tracked footprints to a nearby home on the 500 block of Bonfoy, the blotter said.
After repeatedly knocking on the door a man answered and told officers that a stranger came into the home and told him “not to answer the door for anyone,” according to the blotter.
The resident gave police permission to search the home and a “suspect immediately gave up,” police said.
Police identified the suspect as 43-year-old Paul Anthony Juliano.
Juliano is being held at the El Paso County jail on suspicion of second degree burglary, motor vehicle theft, possession of a schedule II controlled substance, and several misdemeanors, police said.
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
