SNOWMASS VILLAGE — Police arrested a 26-year-old Snowmass Village man Monday and charged him with breaking into his ex-girlfriend’s apartment and destroying her property, according to court documents.
Jeffrey Hartwell is facing a domestic violence-related felony charge of criminal trespassing for the alleged incident as well as misdemeanor criminal mischief. District Court Judge Chris Seldin allowed him out of jail Tuesday on a $2,500 personal recognizance bond after a prosecutor said the victim in the case supported such a bond.
The victim in the case told police Monday that Hartwell texted her on Saturday while she was in Aspen, saying he was on the way to her Snowmass Village apartment, according to an arrest warrant filed in District Court.
The woman told Hartwell several times via text to leave her apartment and that he was scaring her, the warrant states. She told him she would return belongings of his that were at her apartment the next day.
The woman spent Saturday night in Aspen and returned home Sunday morning to find Hartwell asleep on her apartment floor, the warrant states. The woman told Hartwell to leave, then left the apartment and waited at Town Park for him to leave. When she returned to her apartment, she discovered he broke her iPad and a framed picture, according to the warrant.
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