A 42-year-old man who cut off his ankle monitor and left Colorado hours before he was scheduled to be sentenced for sexual assault received last week the prison term he had tried to avoid.
Jorge Alberto Campos was sentenced Friday to 100 years in prison – 20 years to life for each of the five counts he was convicted of in March. It was then that a Douglas County jury found Campos of molesting his girlfriend’s daughter in their Castle Rock home from 2021 to 2023. The girl was 11 years old when the assaults began, according to prosecutors.
Campos threw his ankle monitor into a dumpster near his home after the jury’s verdict, according to a press release from the 23rd Judicial District Attorney’s Office, and fled. His disappearance launched a nationwide alert by authorities who sought to take him back into custody.
Campos was captured three days later by state and federal authorities in Chapparal, New Mexico. He had boarded a bus and was less than half an hour from the U.S.-Mexico boarder when federal agents and New Mexico deputies surrounded the bus at a gas station…