What started as a routine follow-up on a credit card fraud case turned into a bizarre mountain chase in Idaho Springs this last Tuesday. The Idaho Springs Police Department said its officers cuffed 33-year-old Alec Bogus of Aurora, Colorado, who officers initially found at one of the mud baths at the Indian Hot Springs.

A man wearing a small swimsuit who was covered in mud led Idaho Springs police on a chase. Idaho Springs Police Department

Bogus, who had an outstanding felony warrant for assault out of Douglas County, initially walked with officers, but the body camera shows as soon as he made it out into the open, the mud-covered, almost-naked man fled from officers, scrambling up the side of a mountain east of the hot springs, barefoot.

Idaho Springs Police Chief Nathan Buseck

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