This is the story of the most stereotypically Colorado crime that has ever been committed. And it finally reached a conclusion last week, and I am delighted to share it with you.

On Sunday, March 11, 2018, a snowcat painted like the General Lee (the car featured in The Dukes of Hazzard) was stolen out of the parking lot of the Turntable restaurant in Minturn.

Yes, a full-size snowcat. The type that trundles up and down mountains. This specific snowcat is/was a 1982 Tucker Sno-Cat for any snowcat nerds out there.

Oh, and the snowcat was stolen in broad daylight. Y'all, that is brazen. You can't just pull up and make off with a snowcat like you're pickpocketing somebody's wallet. You have to unhitch a trailer and re-hitch the trailer to your vehicle without anyone noticing OR you have to drive the snowcat off its trailer and onto your trailer without anyone noticing.

“It’s basically like stealing a tank. I think it’d be a very hard thing to get away with even if you painted it,” snowcat co-owner Ed Johnson told CBS News at the time. “I don’t see how you could get away with it. It’s a hard thing to steal. It will probably show up sometime in the next 24 hours. Somebody might be looking at some charges.”

At the time, social media posts and news coverage quickly made this a big story, and the investigation didn't take very long. Social media users reportedly spotted the snowcat headed west on I-70. A SWAT team raided a house in Grand Junction the very next day and recovered the stolen snowcat, but they still didn't have the perpetrator in custody.

He reportedly got away after barricading himself in the house when the SWAT team showed up. In April, in Boulder, suspect Jason Cuervo was taken into custody. And on Monday, October 22, Cuervo pleaded guilty to stealing the snowcat. So, the story has come to some kind of a conclusion.

I still have questions, though ... Why did he steal the snowcat? For what purpose, if any, was he going to use it? What is just a lark? We may never know the answers to these important questions, and maybe it's better that way. It's more fun to leave at least a little mystery.

What do you think? Pretty crazy, right? Share your thoughts with us in the comments below.

Speaking of crazy Colorado crimes, a movie is being made about the infamous 'Killdozer' in Granby.