CASPER, Wyo. — After five unsuccessful bounty hunting trips to Colorado, bail bondsman Steve Williadsen picked up Paige Streweler-Hall in Boulder last Thursday and brought her back to face charges in Natrona County.
Streweler-Hall allegedly attacked law enforcement officers in her boyfriend Christian Cole’s vehicle as the couple attempted to escape from the Motel 6 on Wilkins Circle in January. She also reportedly rammed two police vehicles before her vehicle was stopped near Ramokta. At a hearing, she said Cole had forced her to drive at gunpoint.
Cole, a Casper native, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to distribute fentanyl and methamphetamine in federal court last week.
Streweler-Hall is presumed innocent unless proven guilty or pleads guilty. She was charged with drug conspiracy and aggravated eluding in Natrona County District Court. She posted bail and subsequently failed to appear for arraignment in district court, forcing Willadsen to pay the forfeiture.
Streweler-Hall was also reported missing last month, although relatives later reported she was safe.
Willadsen told Oil City News on Thursday that he had reliable information that Streweler-Hall was at his apartment in Boulder. She was dropped off at the Natrona County Detention Center around 4:15 a.m. Friday.
Streweler-Hall is also wanted on pending charges in Colorado and was on the run while in Casper last January. She appeared in Circuit Court on Friday for the extradition order, where she was held on $50,000 cash-only bail.
She told the judge that she had recently been booking cleaning jobs and had applied to online business schools.
“I wasn’t just freaking out,” he said. He said he hoped to get probation in the Natrona County case before fighting the Colorado charges.
“I definitely don’t want this lifestyle anymore,” he said.
She referred to Cole as her boyfriend on Friday.
In January, Cole told court that he had grown up in Casper and moved to Denver about 10 years ago. Cole and Streweler-Hall, a Colorado native, began returning to Natrona County late last year, according to court statements.
A source reportedly told Wyoming Division of Criminal Investigation agents that Cole had brought 12,000 fentanyl pills and 3.5 pounds of methamphetamine to Casper from Colorado sometime around last Christmas, according to the statement. agent’s sworn.
William Tanner Jackson was also named in the same federal indictment as Cole.
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