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Man who hurt Dougco deputy while fleeing over ankle monitor sentenced

32-year-old Joshua Kane Soto will serve 16 years in prison for a Dec. 2017 incident where he fled deputies in a rented vehicle when they tried to pick him up over a malfunctioning ankle monitor. During the fracas, he injured an officer after a police chase along Interstate 25.
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A man who'd recently moved to Colorado from California will spend the next 16 years behind bars after injuring a Douglas County deputy during a police chase, the 18th District Attorney's Office said in a press release Monday.

Joshua Kane Soto, 32, was sentenced on Friday to 16 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections after pleading guilty in August to first-degree assault and threatening a police officer with a weapon - the latter was the more dire count he faced after the mayhem he caused in December last year, the District Attorney's office said.

After moving from California to Colorado, Soto quickly found himself on bond in the Centennial State in a felony case and an ankle monitor attached to his leg, the DA said. When his monitor stopped working, he didn't report it and deputies were notified and went to pick him up on Dec. 27, 2017.

Soto fled in a rented vehicle.

The next day, Soto was reportedly driving a Chrysler Sebring near C-470 and University Boulevard and deputies again tried to pull him over. He sped off.

The DA's Office said Soto led deputies onto Interstate 25 and then turned around at Arapahoe Road before heading south on I-25. When a patrol car tried to stop him, Soto sped the car across several lanes of traffic and rammed the law enforcement vehicle.

Soto then backed up and rammed the car a second time, the DA said. The deputy inside the vehicle hurt his ankle and had to have stitches in a cut on his forehead.

More deputies were able to steer Soto of I-25 onto County Line Road and eventually stop him near Mercury Drive and Saturn Drive, where the man was taken into custody.

Soto also pleaded guilty to one count of vehicular eluding, to which Judge Shay Whitaker sentenced him to serve six years concurrently - meaning the sentence will be served at the same time as his previous 16-year sentence.

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