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A woman in Glenwood Springs was instructed from Pitkin County's prison on Thursday in connection with a suspected accident on December 14th and released, which led to the death of a pedestrian on Highway 82.

According to court records, the 21 -year -old Andrea Eloiza Contreras Canales was achieved a predetermined bond of USD 10,000. It was released from custody after less than an hour at around 5 p.m. Public defender Cameron Mackenzie appeared as a lawyer on Thursday, as court documents show.

Laura Makar, district judge of the Pitkin district, found a probable reason for the arrest of contreras Canales on Wednesday morning. The judge authorized the arrest warrant for her arrest for a crime in class 3 to leave the scene of an accident with death and a crime of class 6 of manipulation with physical evidence. At the time of the crash, Canales drove a Jeep Patriot, a small SUV that appeared in clear weather and the driving conditions were safe, the police said.

Around noon on Wednesday, the Aspen Police Department, the leading investigative agency in deaths because it took place within the city limits, announced the indictment in a press release.

The authorities waited almost three months before they made charges until the results of a judicial blood test, which was carried out on Contreras Canales, and which refused to carry out field soberness tests that the police requested on site.

She told the police that she had not consumed alcohol, but took four medicine cups Nyquil in the three hours within the accident. The blood was pulled out of contreras Canales at around 7 a.m. or almost nine hours after the accident. The APD received the results of the Colorado Bureau of Investigation on March 5.

“I received the toxicology of Contreras Canales' blood use and learned that no alcohol, drugs of abuse or prescription medication of any kind was found in her blood,” says the affidavit. “It is unclear to me why Contreras Canales previously pointed out to have consumed Nyquil, but it was tested and not found.”

APD's press release states that the examination of the department found that “Contreras Canales was not under the influence of intoxicating substances. The examination also showed that speed was not a factor for the crash. There was no indication of distracted driving due to the evaluation of mobile phone data, and Sabatka was last observed when he left a bus east towards Aspen on Highway 82 near her residence. “

The APD does not comment publicly beyond what it indicated in the press release and in court files.

The police believe that the collision took place at some point between 10:50 p.m. and 10:53 p.m. when the police arrived at the crime scene, Contreras Canales was not there.

The victim, Lisa Sabatka, 33 years old and a resident of the Aspen Country Inn near the scene of the accident, was declared dead at the Aspen Valley Hospital at 11:20 p.m.

The police from Aspen, the surveillance videos by High Mountain Taxi and the Roaring Fork Transportation Authority as well as some of the income from Sabatka, set a schedule during the hours before the accident. In addition, the police built a timeline through texts that were deleted from a cell phone to Contreras Canales.

“The timeline of Contreras Canales is not fully known and there is a large amount of time that is not taken into account based on its history,” says Turer's affidavit.

The Times Turner, which was presented in the affidavit, set the following episode of events on December 14th:

• 8:11 p.m.: Sabatka makes a high mountain taxi ride from the gant in Aspen to Aspen Country Inn. Witnesses inform the authorities that Sabatka has taken the taxi alone.

• 9:46 pm: The video of RFTA shows Sabatka to a bus towards the east towards Aspen in the Willits Park-and-Ride.

• 10:17 pm: Sabatka leaves the bus in the Aspen Country Inn. She has her cell phone with her. “Sabatka was very uncertain when she left the bus and was visibly intoxicated,” says Turner's affidavit. “After leaving the bus, she stumbled aside or when she went in this direction because the bus withdraws.”

• 10:44 p.m.: A reader of the Nizenzplatte near the Woods Road am Highway 82 in Pitkin County scans the label of the vehicle powered by Contreras Canales.

• 10:51: This estimated crash time is based on the 4.7-mile travel distance and an estimated travel time of 6 to 7 minutes from the Woods Road to Aspen Country Inn, as defined by APD.

• 10:51 p.m.: Contreras Canales sends an SMS to a friend who works in a restaurant in downtown Aspen (the sent and preserved texts were deleted, the police said).

• 10:53 pm: High Mountain Taxi Dash camera videos show Sabatka on the floor.

• 10:55 p.m.: A passerby reports an accident on shipping.

• 10:58 p.m.: This is the estimated time. Contreras Canales picked up her boyfriend in the restaurant, provided that her account drove correctly that she drove to Aspen after the collision.

• 10:59 p.m.: Officials are sent to the accident scene.

• 11:15 p.m.: Sabatka arrives in Aspen Valley Hospital.

• 11:20 p.m.: Sabatka is declared deceased.

• 12:04 p.m.: Contreras Canales returns to the scene, where she tells the police that she was involved in a collision, but believed that she had hit wild animals like a deer.

• 4:08 p.m.: The friend sends a WhatsApp message to Contreras Canales with the inscription “Borre Sus Mensajes W”, which in English “delete your messages w.” Translated. The police, which acts on a search command, discover a Whatsaspp message on the friend of the friend's cell phone.

• 7 a.m.: The blood deduction is complete on Contreras Canales. The police then confiscate their cell phones.

“Although I cannot clearly determine when the messages were removed/deleted, Contreras Canales were in contact with the law enforcement authorities or with the friend's side, as there are only empty bubbles in their place,” says Turner's affidavit.

The time between Sabatka's leaving the bus in the Aspen Country Inn and the time of her time recorded by a taxi camera, which she captured on site, cannot be taken into account, according to Turer's affidavit. “Sabatka's whereabouts were unknown for 36 minutes. .

A toxicological report on Sabatka showed a blood alcohol concentration of 0.286%, and its system also included caffeine, marijuana and amphetamines (from an adderall recipe), according to the affidavit.

The forensic pathologist Dr. Robert Kurtzman found the type of death as an “accident”, and the interval between the crash and death was “minutes”, according to the press release, which were caused by “several blunt violent violations”.

Sabatka's CV for LinkedIn 2016 The Kent State University will put it in the Roaring Fork Valley in October 2017 when she started in the service industry in Snowmass Village. Like many local workers, she kept numerous jobs at work, the guest service, restaurants, lodges, retail and elsewhere.