Man will get 8 years in jail for I-70 joyride with stolen bus in Colorado mountains

The man who took a stolen bus from Georgetown on a joyride down Interstate 70 final October was sentenced Monday to eight years in jail, in response to court docket data.

Clear Creek County Judge Jane Catherine Cheroutes sentenced Jared Romelo Brooks, 30, to eight years within the Colorado Department of Corrections with a 102-day credit score for time served, court docket data present.

Brooks took a deal and pleaded responsible in February to second-degree motorcar theft, dropping prices of tried first-degree homicide and vehicular eluding from his case, in response to Clear Creek County court docket data.

The 30-year-old man agreed to an prolonged sentencing vary of 5 to eight years when he pleaded responsible to motorcar theft in February, in response to a replica of his plea settlement. He was sentenced to the utmost of that vary and can spend three years on parole after his launch.

The regular sentencing vary for second-degree motorcar theft is 2 to 6 years.

Brooks stole the shuttle bus from Georgetown on Oct. 10 and led police on a chase down I-70, in response to the U.S. Marshals Service.

At one level, Brooks swerved and “suddenly accelerated” in the direction of first responders on the facet of the freeway, narrowly lacking two law enforcement officials, in response to Brooks’ affidavit. Brooks struck a police automotive and a tow truck earlier than fleeing the scene, investigators mentioned.

The officers and Colorado Department of Transportation workers jumped out of the bus’s path to keep away from being hit, the affidavit said.

As he approached the crash, cameras on the bus captured Brooks saying there have been “pigs” up forward and abruptly crossing a number of lanes of visitors to drive on the first responders, in response to the affidavit.

Earlier within the day, Clear Creek deputies tried to tug over a Chevrolet Equinox on I-70 that weaved between lanes, straddled the road and handed a number of drivers on the freeway’s proper shoulder, “disregarding all traffic laws and endangering motorists,” investigators wrote within the arrest affidavit. Deputies estimated the automotive’s pace to be greater than 100 mph.

Law enforcement referred to as off the chase due to security considerations, however deputies later discovered the Chevrolet at a fuel station in Georgetown, in response to the affidavit. The automotive had been stolen in August 2025.

Across the road from the deserted automotive, a shuttle bus had been stolen from a retail car parking zone, the affidavit said. Two individuals, together with Brooks, have been seen strolling from the fuel station to the car parking zone earlier than the theft.