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ASPEN — A man who acknowledged stealing thousands of free copies of a Colorado resort town’s two daily newspapers because his friend was named in police blotters has made a public apology.
The Aspen Times and the Aspen Daily News both printed an apology letter Friday from 23-year-old Mitchell Reed of Carbondale, who agreed to write the apology to avoid criminal theft charges.
Reed stole thousands of papers on Nov. 5 because one of his friends was in that day’s police blotter in both publications for a drug arrest. A maintenance worker told police that Reed dumped the papers in trash bins behind a local grocery store, and Reed confessed to the theft.
In his letter Friday, Reed apologized to newspaper employees and readers. The Associated Press
