Deputies narrowly avoided injury during a 2023 confrontation involving warrants, vehicle attacks, and threats
A Larimer County man has been sentenced to 48 years in prison following a violent 2023 standoff that endangered law enforcement officers and resulted in multiple felony convictions.
According to the Larimer County Sheriff’s Office, deputies attempted to contact Zachary Widener in August 2023 regarding multiple outstanding warrants. Instead of surrendering, Widener barricaded himself inside a storage facility, made threats, used a vehicle to ram doors and a law enforcement vehicle, and nearly struck two deputies with his vehicle…