- A 65-year-old man who allegedly caused a lockdown of San Miguel County schools on Friday was traced through his cell phone and arrested in Montezuma County.
- Montezuma County commissioners gave a swift thumbs-down Monday to proposed regulations inspired by this summer’s failed “Bong-a-thon”.
A 65-year-old man who allegedly caused a lockdown of San Miguel County schools on Friday was traced through his cell phone and arrested in Montezuma County. The sheriff’s office says Kenneth Krawchuck, who was living in a camper on another man’s property, was apprehended without incident. Krawchuck is suspected of calling the Department of Agriculture in Denver, claiming he was going to dynamite government buildings and harm Telluride schoolchildren. The San Miguel County Courthouse was immediately evacuated and schools were placed on “external lockdown” Friday.
The Montezuma County commissioners gave a swift thumbs-down Monday to proposed regulations inspired by this summer’s failed “Bong-a-thon”. The competitive pot-smoking event would have brought a thousand people to Stoner in the Dolores River Valley, but the commissioners said no. Concerned landowners then had an attorney draft a 26-page set of proposed rules for outdoor events. On Thursday, the Planning and Zoning Commission said the regulations seemed overly long. Chairman Dennis Atwater suggested adopting a few features to plug “gaps” he saw in the land-use code. He said the full rules could become mere guidelines, and P&Z agreed. But on Monday, County Commissioner Larry Don Suckla said he’d heard the P&Z discussion was a “dog and pony show” and he wanted that body to concentrate on “major issues”. The commissioners voted unanimously to take the matter off the table.
