The homeless man picked up for allegedly kidnapping a man and woman who were hiking near Nederland over the weekend has a criminal history that suggests a troubled past, 9NEWS has learned.
Boulder County Sheriff’s deputies arrested Joseph Scott Carter on Monday afternoon while he was walking along the Peak to Peak Highway. A spokesperson for the sheriff’s office says it appeared as if Carter had been living in the area for several weeks.
Four months ago, the Longmont Police Department says they ran into Carter while the 42-year-old man was wearing a “chain mail hood (and) chain mail body armor” while threatening to kill a one-time co-worker.
When officers approached the clearly very agitated Carter in February, “Carter continued to repeat that he was going to kill (the co-worker), and nothing we did would stop that,” according to a Longmont Police report.
One officer noted, “Based on my prior experiences with Joe I know him to be antagonistic and unstable. Joe is very scared of any government employee. The last time I met Joe he was forecasting a government collapse.”
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