A 37-year-old Denver area man was recently found guilty of trying to hide in Mexico after fatally stabbing a woman he was dating two years ago.
An Adams County jury convicted Adrian Carracedo-Vega of first-degree murder on Nov. 24. The judge immediately sentenced him to life in prison without the possibility for parole.
Sachely Diaz was found crawling in an alley behind an apartment building on Dec. 20, 2023. She was near the apartment building’s dumpsters in the 1700 block of West 85th Avenue in Federal Heights. She was covered in blood and, according to Adams County prosecutors, told a witness, “I’m dying, I’m dying.”…