It happened again.
Another potentially dangerous suspect released early over COVID 19 concerns has been arrested again, this time for another violent crime.
An inmate in Colorado accused of child abuse was released in an effort to prevent him from getting coronavirus. Now he's been accused of strangulation.
A former Weld County Jail inmate, who was released early from a two year sentence due to COVID-19 concerns, is now accused of attacking and strangling someone one month after his release. The Windsor Police Department is now searching for Christopher A. Vecchiarelli, 36, after they say he attacked a woman, leaving bruises in several places and fracturing her arm.
According to court records obtained by CBS4, Vecchiarelli was released from the Weld County Jail on April 7, 2020 following his attorney’s accusations that incarceration in Weld County was increasing “risks and lethality of COVID-19.” Vecchiarelli only served 48 days in jail before being released early at the order of County Judge Michele Lynn Meyer, and later allegedly attacking the woman.
In an objection filed by the office of Weld County District Attorney Michael Rourke, they warned the judge that Vecchiarelli “is attempting to leverage this undeniably serious public health crisis into a new avenue down which the Defendant may attempt to elude the consequences of his actions.” The office went on to write, “While COVID-19 has sown disorder in all aspects of life, the appropriate response to the Defendant’s request is not to release him from custody – either as a stay of execution on the remainder of his jail sentence or to otherwise commute the proper and just jail sentence.”