Pueblo police dispatched to ‘naked man’ on power line tower

At 4:40 a.m. Saturday officers responded to a report that a naked man had climbed to the top of a 150-foot power line tower at the Comanche Power Plant.

Employees had been conducting a perimeter check when they heard yelling. They paused to investigate the source of noise and discovered that a man had climbed to the top of the steel tower.

Officers arrived on the scene and were able to calm the man by communicating with the cruiser’s PA system. Officers learned the man’s name — which has not been released — and learned that he is from New Mexico.

Pueblo Fire Department responded with a ladder truck and a firefighter climbed the ladder as far as possible, coaching the man down far enough to get him on the truck’s ladder.

The man had held on to his boxers and put them back on — pictured above — before ascending the ladder.

Dispatch was able to contact the man’s father, who said he did not know why his 29-year-old son was in Pueblo but that he has been struggling with narcotics.

Once on the ground, the man was transported to a hospital via ambulance for evaluation and treatment.