The Denver Post: The way Jeffery Kytle tells it, he came to Colorado for vacation and left on probation.

Twenty-one years ago, the Iowa resident bolted out the back of a Keystone condo when police busted in the front.

He was in town for a ski vacation, to blow his buddy’s recent $20,000 casino jackpot, the now-66-year-old said this month. But there were drugs in their rented room — about two ounces of methamphetamine — and supplies that made the police think they were dealing.

Kytle didn’t make it far. He was arrested on a slew of charges and eventually pleaded guilty to a single count of possession of a controlled substance, at the time a low-level felony. He served four years of probation. Then he swore off Colorado for good.

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