In March, the month of Frozen Dead Guy Days, the Nederland Marshal’s Office gave out 27 traffic tickets, non-parking, 15 parking tickets, 4 city ordinance violations and 14 miscellaneous summonses.

On March 7, Nederland officers were paged to respond to Fourth Street where a mountain lion had been repeatedly paying a visit. The previous night, a sheriff’s deputy had hazed the cat with a bean bag round from his shotgun. The lion returned the next day. The Ned officer arrived at the address where a deputy was watching the cat, which was under the deck of the house. The Ned officer decided to use his Taser if possible. When the officer was about 15 feet away, he took a shot through a small opening, hitting the deck and the dirt. The cat ran away. It had a collar and two ear tags. It was later spotted on First Street.

On March 15, the lion was found dead, 300 yards from West First Street, under a large spruce tree on the north side of Boulder Creek. A woman out on a walk spotted the cat. A Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer investigated the incident and said it appears that the cat was the same one that attacked a dog on Caribou Road about 10 days earlier. Next to the lion’s carcass was a mostly eaten dead domestic white cat. As of March 20, a cause of death had not been determined.

On March 8, a Ned officer was informed that there was an intoxicated person near Hwy. 119 and First Street. The officer saw a man sitting on a rock near the roundabout and then went to speak to a CDOT employee working in the area. The suspect’s speech was slow and slurred and he didn’t seem to comprehend his situation. The man was removed to a safe area. The officer told him that he would be going to ARC for detoxification. He became verbally uncooperative. The man resisted getting into the patrol car and was transported to the Boulder County Jail.

On March 11, a possible assault was reported to the NPD and an officer was dispatched to second Street. The resident greeted the officer at the front door and pointed to a man sitting on a couch just inside the front door. He appeared to be heavily intoxicated. He had dried blood on his nose but seemed to be breathing without obstruction. He was cleared by the Nederland Fire Protection District EMTs who left him with an ice pack.

The resident wanted to file a report, but the victim did not. Both men were intoxicated. The injured man said he had been struck by a female, who lives about 3/4 of a mile away. He said the woman wanted to be his girlfriend. They had been at the FDGF earlier in the day. The witness said the woman punched the man in the nose while walking home. The man did not remember what happened. The officer felt that there was not an imminent threat to the man and contacting the woman at this point would not be prudent. The next day, the officer interviewed the woman who had a black eye. She said it happened when she caught herself in her car door during high winds the previous week. She couldn’t remember any altercation the previous evening. The officer determined the couple had drinking issues but there wasn’t enough evidence to establish a primary aggressor. Neither person was arrested.

On March 20, a vehicle recovery company called the NPD about a vehicle whose owner said it had been towed from the RTD Park and Ride, where he left it while he was in jail. The towing company said they still had the vehicle which had been abandoned for two months.