The man was accused of kidnapping an employee of Mr. Bloomberg, the former New York City mayor, and asking for the whereabouts of his daughters.
An armed man broke into the Colorado ranch of the former Democratic presidential candidate Michael R. Bloomberg and kidnapped a housekeeper, asking her for the whereabouts of Mr. Bloomberg’s two adult daughters, the authorities said in court documents filed this week. The man, Joseph Beecher,48, faces state and federal charges including kidnapping after he was accused of ramming his pickup truck through the main gate of the Westlands Ranch in Rio Blanco County on Wednesday. Mr. Bloomberg and his family were not present at the ranch at the time, officials said. But Mr. Beecher told the female housekeeper that he had hoped to “make an international scene” with Mr. Bloomberg, who was the mayor of New York City from 2002 to 2013, or with his daughters, before kidnapping the worker at gunpoint, according to court filings. She was forced to drive Mr. Beecher in a pickup truck about 230 miles east, to the Denver area, and later to a town near the southern border of Wyoming, before the authorities tracked them both to a motel there early Thursday, officials said. The woman, identified as a supervising housekeeper at the ranch, was found unharmed. Mr. Beecher was arrested, the authorities said, and an AR-15-style rifle and several magazines were located inside the room.
