BOULDER, Colo.—A Denver homeless man accused of kidnapping hikers near Nederland has been found incompetent to stand trial.
The Daily Camera in Boulder reports that a judge announced Thursday that 43-year-old Joseph Scott Carter was found to be incompetent by staff at the Colorado Mental Health Institute in Pueblo.
Carter will stay at the hospital pending another review in 90 days.
He is accused of tying up a man and a woman who were hiking in the mountains west of Boulder in June. Police say he pointed a rifle at the man, threatened to kill him and handcuffed him to a tree. They say Carter tied the woman to a tree with a chain.
Police say the man escaped and Carter let the woman go.
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Information from: Daily Camera,
