Matthew Matta a 28 year of Denver, while escaping from authorities in Pueblo County crashed a vehicle through the gates at the TTCI.
He was arrested in Folwer while trying to burglarize the Fowler State Bank. Matta was being held in custody in the Otero County Jail in La Junta.
After receiving medical treatment, he was booked with charges for second-degree burglary, second-degree assault with a deadly weapon, criminal mischief, and reckless endangerment, reckless driving and driving under the influence.
All the charges are pending due in the Pueblo County. Those the charges have not determined yet.
Spokesperson Gayle Perez for the Pueblo County Sheriff’s office said that Matta drove a car through a gate at TTCI into a secure area.
Gayle Perez, a spokeswoman for the Pueblo County Sheriff’s Office, said Tuesday that Matta allegedly drove a car through a gate at TTCI into a secure area.
The police officers received a call around at about 4 p.m.
She said once he was inside the facility, Mata allegedly crashed into a building which caused minor damage but no injuries.
Then he climbed into a TTCI truck and drove away.
The deputies reaching the incident location saw Matta driving on DOT Road, they tried to stop him before, but he eluded them.
Deputies lost sight of the vehicle near DOT Road and Colorado 96.
At 5 p.m. Pueblo sheriff’s office received a call, stating there was a bomb threat at a facility
“The person with the threat said that there was a bomb at what they called ‘the federal building of transportation’ and that someone had just crashed into it,” Perez said.
The Bomb squad responded to TTCI and searched the whole area and also the vehicle, but did not find any explosive.
Matta’s next brush with the law came in Fowler, which is about 30 miles east of Pueblo.
Fowler police said they received a call at 5:08 p.m. saying a report that a man was attempting to break into the Fowler State Bank.
Police arrived to the situation and found that the suspect was still on scene. The suspect was taken into custody by Fowler officers. Deputies from the Otero County Sheriff’s Office, Crowley County Sheriff’s Office and a trooper from the Colorado State Patrol arrived on scene to assist.
During the investigation, officers determined that the suspect was traveling west on U.S. 50 through town when his vehicle left the roadway and struck the First National Bank.
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