CHAFFEE COUNTY, Colo. (KRDO) — The Chaffee County Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) has arrested a 39-year-old after he drove away from a traffic accident and was later found hiding under a bed.
Deputies say they responded to a two-vehicle traffic accident around 7 p.m. on Oct. 8, on Poncha Pass, and learned the suspect who hit another vehicle had left the scene. Deputies say they were told the male suspect drove away and turned onto a private driveway.
CCSO says they located the vehicle the suspect was driving, which had front-end damage and a female passenger who remained in the car, but the male driver ran into the surrounding forest. Deputies say the suspected driver, identified as Simon William Allen, age 39, from Monument, CO, was found in a cabin he had rented in the area, hiding under a bed…