WOMAN ACCUSED OF STRING OF TRAFFIC VIOLATIONS, HITTING STATE PATROL VEHICLE

JUNCTION» Mesa County authorities GRAND were searching Saturday for a Grand Junction woman who officers said eluded authorities as she repeatedly drove recklessly, eventually hitting a State Patrol vehicle.

Just after midnight Friday, a sheriff’s deputy watched 42-year-old Elizabeth Tafoya run a stop sign, according to a news release.

When a deputy tried to pull over Tafoya, authorities said she took off, eluding law enforcement. Her reckless driving continued, deputies said, as she began driving down the wrong side of the road and appeared to try to hit a patrol car multiple times.

Deputies said she drove through a chain link fence and through a dirt lot, hit a State Patrol vehicle and took off again.

Tafoya is wanted for two counts of felony vehicular eluding; aggravated driving with a revoked driver status, habitual traffic offender; two counts of attempted vehicular assault; disregarding a traffic control device; failure to yield at a stop sign; criminal mischief; and failure to remain at the scene of an accident.

Jail for Colorado man for drunkendriving Maserati crash.

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SPRINGS» A judge has sentenced a man to two and a half years in jail for a drunken-driving crash that seriously injured another man in Colorado.

Seth Vanderiet, 45, said he was trying to outrace other cars in his Maserati when he drove into a pickup stopped at a traffic light in 2017.

Vanderiet pleaded guilty to vehicular assault while driving under the influence. It was his third DUI conviction. He was sentenced Friday to three years of probation in addition to the prison time. He will pay at least $20,000 restitution.

The crash seriously injured a man in the pickup, Chris Long.

Man pleads guilty to role in fatal shooting. COLLINS» An Ohio

FORT man has struck a deal with prosecutors and pleaded guilty to his role in a fatal shooting in Colorado.

Joshua Baker pleaded guilty Friday to aggravated robbery and being an accessory to a crime. He faces 20 to 32 years in prison.

Prosecutors say Baker was one of three Cincinnati men charged in the 2016 robbery and death of 20-yearold Devon Smeltz of Fort Collins. Smeltz, who police say was a cocaine dealer, was found dead in a row of trees in a rural area east of Fort Collins. Baker’s plea deal calls on him to testify at the trial of his co-defendants. If he refuses, the plea would be withdrawn.