BRIGHTON, Colo. — A Colorado man who pleaded guilty to first-degree assault after seriously injuring a Brighton police officer in 2023 during a domestic violence-related arrested was sentenced to 20 years in Colorado Department of Corrections Thursday.
Robert Trujillo, 51, pleaded guilty to first-degree assault – serious bodily injury with a deadly weapon on Sept. 27, 2024. Previously, he had been charged with attempted murder in connection with the case.
Prosecutors said Trujillo was wanted for felony domestic violence in Brighton when officers spotted him inside a vehicle that was parked near N. 19th Ave. and Overland Dr. around 6 p.m. on Aug. 16, 2023. As officers made contact, they said Trujillo refused to exit the vehicle and “maneuvered away from patrol cars” as an officer was trying to pull him from the vehicle before he sped off while the officer was still holding onto the driver’s side door…