A La Plata County man pleaded guilty to criminal mischief charges for keying a neighbor’s car after a vote didn’t go his way at a county planning meeting in August, agreeing to pay nearly $1,000 in damages.
Rob Kolter, 60, was ticketed July 7 for causing damage between $750 and $1,000 to the vehicle.
The incident stemmed from a La Plata County Planning Commission meeting June 27 in which one of Kolter’s neighbors proposed to reclassify her property for higher-density development.
Kolter spoke out against the proposed project at the meeting, but it was unanimously approved by the Planning Commission. Kolter left the meeting and was caught on a county surveillance camera outside the building keying the neighbor’s car.
Kolter was contacted by police the next day and admitted to keying the car.
“Before I was done doing it, I realized it was one of the stupidest things I’ve done in my life,” Kolter told The Durango Herald in August.
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