An Aspen man is being held without bond in the Grand Junction area. He faces charges after illegally having a gun at Aspen’s Post Office, where he was an employee. A Grand Junction magistrate denied fifty-six-year old Mauro Emilio Pennini bond on Thursday, saying he poses a danger to people in the Aspen area.
“When you have an individual with a prior restraining order...with a firearm and two pairs of handcuffs, I think that would be a standard argument that he needs to be held without bond,” says Jeff Dorschner, of the Colorado US Attorney's Office. On Thursday, Dorschner described Pennini as a danger to the Aspen-area community. “I think that the US Attorney’s office was concerned with the safety of a number of people Pennini had been contact with,” Dorschner continued. “Because of the fact that he had this firearm, this knife, and these handcuffs.
Pennini was caught earlier this month with those and other dangerous items at Aspen’s Post Office. He has pleaded not guilty to two federal charges and will likely be held in the Grand Junction area until a trial later this year.
