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AURORA, Colo. — A man and woman killed in a violent crash as they fled police both had methamphetamine and other drugs in their systems, according to autopsy reports obtained by 9NEWS Investigates.
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Manuel Sanchez Tovar, 52, was at the wheel of a stolen Ford Focus that slammed into a traffic light pole on Dec. 1 at the intersection of East Alameda Avenue and South Peoria Street. He and a woman riding with him, Sheena Fuentes, 41, both died on impact.
Both died to multiple blunt-force injuries, according to their autopsy reports.
In addition, toxicology testing found Tovar had methamphetamine, amphetamine and fentanyl in his system when he died. Fuentes tested positive for methamphetamine and amphetamine.
According to Aurora police, a license plate reader alerted officers to the car, which had been stolen on Saturday, Nov. 29 in Fort Collins.
Officers attempted to make a traffic stop at Mississippi and Peoria, but Sanchez Tovar fled north – speeding and weaving toward oncoming traffic.
The pursuit, according to police, lasted less than a minute and ended in the crash.
No other vehicles were involved, and one else was injured.
Documents obtained by 9NEWS Investigates show that Sanchez Tovar had more than 50 arrests dating back to 1992, used at least 11 aliases, and had been to prison multiple times on charges ranging from burglary to assault and robbery to drug possession and distribution. Records also show he violated parole repeatedly and was sent back to prison at least six times.
Fuentes had been arrested more than two dozen times since 2003 – and on Oct. 7 a judge in Weld County had sentenced her to a year on probation in a drug case.
Less than three weeks later, according to court documents, she was at her home on North Del Mar Circle in Aurora when a man identified as her boyfriend is suspected of shooting and killing a man in the front yard.
According to an arrest affidavit, Fuentes left the house a little over a minute after the shooting, walked by the victim without stopping to check on him, and drove her boyfriend away from the scene. More than three weeks passed before investigators located and arrested him.
Prosecutors charged Fuentes with being an accessory in the killing, and an effort began to revoke her probation in the drug case.