Now he’s 30 and doesn’t use, but at age 24, his addiction started to interfere with the rest of his life. Rutherford had used heroin and meth from ages 16 to 26. “Obviously, that didn’t work out that well.” “I drove out here for a vacation and just decided to stay, hoping to escape from previous problems,” he said. He received a settlement check and left Massachusetts to visit a friend in Colorado.
Rutherford left Boston after a car accident. Through July 2022, motor vehicle thefts stood at 816. This year doesn’t look to be much different. That’s parallel with Adams County who experienced a staggering 200% increase in the past decade, according to statistics from the Adams County Sheriff’s office. In 2022, Colorado is on pace for 4,538 this year. In 2021, there were 4,002 arrests for the crime. Motor vehicle thefts are on track to be 48,000 for this year - reaching an all-time high. Those cities are Denver, Aurora, Westminster and Pueblo. 8, and four Colorado cities rank in the top ten in the United States. The Common Sense Institute, a Greenwood Village-based non-profit focused on economic research, found Colorado to be the top state in America for auto thefts in a study published Sept. “We will also see a correlation with methamphetamine abuse in the winter months.” A common situation
“We see people stealing cars in order to get money, but also stealing cars to live in for some time,” she said. Not that long ago, he was on the other side, caught by the police and charged with the theft of a motor vehicle - just one part of the rising wave of crime in the state.Īs in Rutherford’s case, motor vehicle theft is often paired with other underlying problems and situations.įor the most part, motor vehicle thefts are a result of housing and drug addiction, according to Lisa Pasko, an associate professor of sociology and criminology at the University of Denver. He wants to work with people through counseling to help them with their drug problems. He’s a successful chef working full-time while going to school to earn a degree in human services, concentrating in addiction and a secondary in trauma. “It’s the family you hope for, not the family you were born with,” he said. Luke Zarzecki Rutherford’s forearm tattoo reads “Family.”
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