Student in naked LSD-laced assault can go back to Texas

Christine Reid, Rocky Mountain News

Published October 3, 2007 at midnight

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A University of Colorado freshman accused of tripping on acid, running naked across the campus and sexually assaulting a woman is allowed to return to his home state of Texas because he can no longer attend classes, a judge ruled Tuesday.

Chandler Ross Wyatt, 18, was also formally charged Tuesday with three felonies — unlawful sexual contact with force, drug use and drug possession — as well as misdemeanor charges of assault, indecent exposure and resisting arrest. If convicted, he could face up to six years in prison on the most serious charge and would have to register as a sex offender.

Wyatt's attorney, Jeffrey Pagliuca, told the court that Wyatt was a student but was "not allowed to do that at this moment" and asked if he could be allowed to return home to Texas. Boulder County Judge Noel E. Blum agreed, but he told Wyatt his sobriety would have to continue to be monitored as a condition of him leaving.

Wyatt and his parents declined to comment after the hearing.

On Sept. 27, Wyatt and a friend — who has not been arrested or named by police, but who is not his roommate as was initially indicated by officers at the scene — split four doses of LSD gel tabs they got on University Hill and decided to take their clothes off in a Cheyenne-Arapaho Hall room, according to police reports. Wyatt then ran outside, police reported, and in 20 minutes three 911 calls about him were logged before he was arrested inside Hallett Hall.

A resident there told police she let him in because she thought he had locked himself out, according to police reports, and he then sexually assaulted her before several men in the dorm held him down.

Wyatt was ordered to return to court for a preliminary hearing Nov. 21.

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