Aspen kidnapping suspect requests to cease random drug tests due to pregnancy

Aspen kidnapping suspect requests to cease random drug tests due to pregnancy

A Pitkin County judge on Monday denied a suspect’s request to modify pretrial services, ruling that defendant Vanessa Leighton will remain subject to random drug testing despite being pregnant. Defense attorneys argued that Leighton, who is accused alongside co-defendant Nathan Keen of kidnapping a woman for multiple days last summer, should be exempt from random drug testing. Her representation said her urine tests could be too diluted to yield…