An Aspen man who’s been in and out of jail repeatedly on drug charges for the past 15 months voluntarily returned to jail last week and allegedly smuggled drugs into the facility, according to court documents.
Kent Muer, 40, showed up at the Pitkin County Jail on Feb. 28, revoked his own bond in a domestic violence and drug case from December 2015 and asked to be booked into the jail, according to an affidavit written by a Pitkin County sheriff’s deputy and filed Wednesday in Aspen District Court.
Muer was then searched and booked back into the jail.
The following morning, however, an anonymous inmate told a jail deputy that the evening before, Muer “emerged from his room and seemed to be ‘very out of it’ and ‘passed out’ to the point the subject was worried about Muer,” the affidavit states.
After Muer left his cell that evening to speak with a visitor, a deputy searched the room “and found a lip balm container filled with pills and an unknown white, powdery substance,” according to the affidavit.
The deputy looked up the pills on an internet database and discovered one was Clonazepam and the other was Trazodon. He also found white powder on a desk in Muer’s room and two white chunks “about the size of an apple seed” as well as a comb with powder on it, the affidavit states.
The chunks and the powder both preliminarily tested positive for cocaine, according to the affidavit.
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