ASPEN — A Snowmass Village man who made a cocaine-related statement to police in October that spread virally throughout the country’s media was sentenced to two years probation Monday for drug possession.
Aspen police officers encountered Eliphalet Ford, 34, allegedly chopping lines of cocaine on a stone bench at about 2:10 a.m. Oct. 5, according to an officer’s report. Ford brushed a line of cocaine to the ground and officers asked if the white substance in his nostrils was cocaine.
“Of course I have cocaine up my nose,” the officer said Ford told him. “It’s Aspen.”
Lee Berish, Ford’s attorney, told District Judge Chris Seldin on Monday that his client’s family in Alabama read about him in The New York Times. “He made a statement he will regret for the rest of his life,” Berish said. “He suffers anxiety from that every day.”
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