April 20, 2012
Woman gets 20 years for dragging tow driver
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) — A Colorado Springs woman convicted of dragging a tow truck driver to death has been sentenced to 20 years in prison.
Detra Farries was convicted in February of charges including leaving the scene of a deadly crash, manslaughter and vehicular homicide in the death of 35-year-old Allen Lew Rose.
Prosecutors had asked for Farries to be sentenced to up to 36 years in prison.
They say Rose was preparing to tow Farries’ illegally parked vehicle on February 23, last year when she drove off. Rose was dragged more than a mile after getting caught in a cable he had attached to Farries’ vehicle.
Farries’ attorney argued that she didn’t realise Rose was being dragged.

