By Shannon Lukens.
A man who was recently arrested for allegedly setting his neighbor’s Toyota Tacoma truck on fire, is back in the Routt County Jail tonight.
39-year-old Daniel Domin had bonded out on $25,000 bond after the incident with the neighbor’s pickup truck in Sparta Plaza, where Domin was charged with second-degree arson, fourth-degree arson, first-degree trespassing for entering a motor vehicle with intent to commit a crime, and a committing a bias-motivated crime that damaged property in the vehicle fire last Friday, Dec. 22.
Steamboat Springs Police Chief Mark Beckett said Domin was sent to Grand Junction for a Mental Health Hold after that incident.
Chief Beckett said that within one day of returning, he violated the mandatory court order for restrictions of his bond and another arrest warrant was issued.
Chief Beckett says because of Domin’s history, they came on Sunday night (Dec. 31) with a tactical team to his apartment and talked to him through the door and from his balcony. They negotiated with Domin for at least three hours before putting tear gas in his apartment unit to try to get him out. They ended up having to breach the front door and eventually got Domin in custody.
Domin was taken to the hospital to be checked because of the gas before being taken to the Routt County Jail tonight to be booked for the warrant violations, and as Chief Beckett said, “a new list of misdemeanors and felonies.”
Daniel Domin is a former Marine who is known to Steamboat Springs Police after the recent incident, as well as one in July of 2022. He was arrested then when the FBI and U.S. Secret Service reached out to Steamboat Police after Domin had made alleged threats to friends, family, high-ranking politicians, and others. When Steamboat Springs Police arrested him, they confiscated 13 firearms with magazines as well as thousands of rounds of ammunition. He was taken to Grand Junction for a mental health assessment at that time as well. Domin was charged with multiple counts of felony stalking. Domin eventually entered a guilty plea to one count of felony stalking with all other charges dismissed with the stipulation that he have three years of supervised probation, in-patient treatment, no guns, and no contact with the 12 victims.
Domin is scheduled to be in court at 1:15 p.m. on Tuesday, Jan. 2 on the original charges.