A man suspected of threatening mountain bikers with a hatchet near Mount Herman, north of Colorado Springs, was arrested Monday in Woodland Park.
Daniel Nations, 31, was taken into custody by police at about 3 p.m. and booked into the Teller County jail on an unrelated weapons charge, according to the El Paso County Sheriff’s Office.
Mug shot of suspect in Monument and Mount Herman Road menacing: Daniel Nations, DOB: 10/08/85
— EPCSheriff (@EPCSheriff)
Nations was driving a red Chevrolet Prizm with expired Indiana license plates, a car matching the description of a suspect vehicle in public menacing complaints — the near Mount Herman Road, west of Monument.
The Timothy Watkins was found Sept. 17 in the same area. He had been shot. Watkins’ death is being investigated as a homicide.
