Police: Bailed-Out Bungler Burgles Bail Bond Business

PUEBLO, Colo. — The moral of this story might be: Don’t bite the hand that bails you out.

Pueblo police said they arrested a man earlier this week after someone reported a break-in at a local bail bond office. It turns out the man arrested, 22-year-old Rafael Phillip Lujan, was out on bond posted by Blackwell Bail Bonds, where the burglary occurred.

According to an arrest affidavit, Lujan was arrested at a convenience store a block from Blackwell Bail Bonds, around 2:30 a.m., on Tuesday. According to owner Homer Blackwell, Lujan tried but couldn’t get into the business.

“We have bars on all the windows,” Homer Blackwell said. “He broke a window instead and reached into the office, cutting his hand on the broken window.”

Blackwell said Lujan was captured on surveillance cameras during the break-in.

“I gave the video to police,” he said.

What Lujan was able to reach inside the office was a mint sheet of 32 $2 bills on the wall, according to Blackwell.

A witness called police to report seeing the break-in and said the man had walked to a convenience store a block west of the business.

Police arrested Lujan and confiscated a “huge wad” of $2 bills.

Pueblo police didn’t have to take him far after his arrest. Lujan is now being held at the Pueblo Detention Center, a block east of the bail bond company.

Blackwell revoked Lujan’s bail that he had put up the day before on a failure to appear charge.

This time, Lujan’s bail was set at $35,000 following his arrest on suspicion of second-degree burglary, theft, violating a protection order and bail bond revocation.

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