FORT COLLINS — Larimer County sheriff’s deputies have made an arrest in an attack on two women who were hiking in northern Colorado.
Sheriff’s officials announced Thursday that James Jud Bondsteel, 38, had been arrested at his home in Loveland shortly before noon.
The sheriff’s office said Bondsteel was booked on two counts of second-degree kidnapping, one count of criminal attempt to commit sexual assault, one count of first-degree assault, one count of second-degree assault and two counts of menacing with a deadly weapon.
Bondsteel was being held in the Larimer County jail on $100,000 bail.
The women say they were attacked by a knife-wielding man on a trail in the Roosevelt National Forest on Sept. 13. Deputies say they believe the man intended to sexually assault the women. Investigators say the man held a knife to one woman’s throat.
The pair fought him off with a hiking stick.
The women have been identified only as a 38-year-old from Eaton and a 46-year-old from Casper. The Casper woman was treated for cuts to her hands and shoulder.
Denver Post staff and wire reports
