SNOWMASS — A congregation member of the St. Benedict’s Monastery in Snowmass faces felony charges for allegedly taking prescription painkillers from a monk, once during a church service.
Daniel Jackson Kramer, 23, of Carbondale turned himself into Pitkin County authorities Tuesday. He remained in the custody of the Pitkin County Jail on Thursday after a judge set his bond at $13,500.
One of Kramer’s alleged thefts was caught on a surveillance video collected on Aug. 29, when the suspect entered Father Joseph Boyle’s bedroom at the monastery and took a prescription bottle containing five Vicodin tablets, according to an affidavit prepared by Pitkin County Deputy Brad Gibson. The bottle was stolen during Mass, Boyle told authorities.
The camera had been placed in Boyle’s room after the monk, along with a brother at the monastery, said their prescription drug bottles had been disappearing. The brother claimed that 10 pills of his Percocet, prescribed for a back surgery, had gone missing from his bedroom at the monastery in December.
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