A woman who was in a car yesterday that led police on chase out of the foothills into southwest Denver has been identified.
Bonnie Jean Arguello-Pool, 39, is being held at the Clear Creek County Jail on suspicion of several criminal counts, including burglary, mail theft and eluding police, said Capt. Bruce Snelling of the Clear Creek Sheriff’s Office.
With the help of two men who remain at large, Arguello-Pool is suspected of stealing mail from at least two subdivisions in Clear Creek County Monday night into Tuesday monring, Snelling said. The three are also suspected of breaking into cars, stealing tools from a job site, and attempting to steal a power washer from a local resident who caught them in the act.
“They were on a mini crime spree,” Snelling said.
The spree unraveled with the attempted power washer theft, Snelling said, when the homeowner surprised the would be thieves.
“They dropped the power washer and took off” in a Pontiac Grand Am, Snelling said.
At about 8 a.m. Tuesday a state trooper spotted the Grand Am in the Evergreen area, near Highway 74 and Jefferson County Road 73 and tried to stop it, but the driver took off.
As the Grand Am sped toward Denver, people in the car threw stolen mail out of the windows, Snelling said.
Eventually the driver of the Grand Am caused a non-injury crash near West Jewell Avenue and South Sheridan Boulevard. The car stopped a short time later near South Xavier Street and West Colorado Avenue, and two men ran off.
Arguello-Pool was arrested at the scene. Police found drug paraphernalia on her, Snelling said, and she has not been cooperative with investigators.
Snelling said investigators doubled back along the chase route and recovered lots of stolen mail.
“They threw it out in about three different places,” Snelling said. “We ended up with about three bags full of mail.”
Kieran Nicholson: 303-954-1822 or knicholson@denverpost.com.
