Hotel Jerome Evacuated After New Year's Eve Bomb Threat
New Year's Eve celebrations were majorly derailed in Aspen, CO this week when bomb threats forced the resort town to virtually shut down. According to the NY Times, two homemade gasoline bombs with threatening notes were found at two banks and two more were found in an alley, left by "a longtime Aspen resident who an acquaintance said was bitter because he had not profited from the community’s transformation from a rural mining town into a luxury resort town."
The bomb threat forced downtown restaurants and bars to close and a NYE fireworks display was canceled, sending would-be partiers back to their hotels to party with a bottle of champagne and televised celebrations — except for the Hotel Jerome guests, who were evacuated from their hotel.
The suspect, who ordered Aspen banks to give him $60,000, had actually spent his childhood living with family at the Hotel Jerome when Aspen was still developing. On the night of the threats, (one of what is usually one of Aspen's busiest nights every year), the Jerome had actually evacuated hundreds of guests to a nearby public building after hearing of the threats.
The suspect's body was found after an apparent suicide early Thursday morning in a car on a rural county road. Yikes. Not a good start to the New Year in Aspen.
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