DENVER—A 63-year-old Colorado ski bum charged with resisting a Forest Service officer won’t be prosecuted, as long as he doesn’t try to squat at resorts and follows other terms of an agreement with prosecutors.
Charles H. Toups Jr. was charged last year with illegally living on national forest land, possessing marijuana and resisting an officer who tried to serve him with an arrest warrant.
In an agreement filed Wednesday in federal court, Toups admitted resisting the officer. Prosecutors agreed not to pursue charges as long as Toups stays out of trouble; stays off Forest Service, National Park Service and Bureau of Land Management property unless he’s skiing as a paying customer; and doesn’t camp overnight at ski areas, except as a paying customer, over the next two years.
