Judge imposes maximum penalty for crimes spanning Weld, Larimer, and Denver metro areas
A Denver man will spend the next four decades in prison for supplying large amounts of deadly drugs to Northern Colorado communities, including Weld and Larimer counties.
The Weld County District Attorney’s Office announced that Brayan Ismael Rueda-Delgado was sentenced Tuesday to the maximum 40 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections. The sentence follows a multi-agency investigation into a wide-ranging drug trafficking network operating across the Denver metro area and Northern Colorado.
The case began in January 2024, when the Weld County Drug Task Force launched an investigation into a large-scale narcotics operation. The Northern Colorado Drug Task Force (based in Larimer County) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) later joined the effort, uncovering multiple linked trafficking organizations…