The man who took a stolen bus from Georgetown on a joyride down Interstate 70 last October was sentenced Monday to eight years in prison, according to court records.

Clear Creek County Judge Jane Catherine Cheroutes sentenced Jared Romelo Brooks, 30, to eight years in the Colorado Department of Corrections with a 102-day credit for time served, court records show.

Brooks took a deal and pleaded guilty in February to second-degree motor vehicle theft, dropping charges of attempted first-degree murder and vehicular eluding from his case, according to Clear Creek County court records.

The 30-year-old man agreed to an extended sentencing range of five to eight years when he pleaded guilty to motor vehicle theft in February, according to a copy of his plea agreement. He was sentenced to the maximum of that range and will spend three years on parole after his release.

The normal sentencing range for second-degree motor vehicle theft is two to six years.

Brooks stole the shuttle bus from Georgetown on Oct. 10 and led police on a chase down I-70, according to the U.S. Marshals Service.

At one point, Brooks swerved and “suddenly accelerated” towards first responders on the side of the highway, narrowly missing two police officers, according to Brooks’ affidavit. Brooks struck a police car and a tow truck before fleeing the scene, investigators said.

The officers and Colorado Department of Transportation staff jumped out of the bus’s path to avoid being hit, the affidavit stated.

As he approached the crash, cameras on the bus captured Brooks saying there were “pigs” up ahead and abruptly crossing several lanes of traffic to drive at the first responders, according to the affidavit.

Earlier in the day, Clear Creek deputies tried to pull over a Chevrolet Equinox on I-70 that weaved between lanes, straddled the line and passed several drivers on the highway’s right shoulder, “disregarding all traffic laws and endangering motorists,” investigators wrote in the arrest affidavit. Deputies estimated the car’s speed to be more than 100 mph.

Law enforcement called off the chase because of safety concerns, but deputies later found the Chevrolet at a gas station in Georgetown, according to the affidavit. The car had been stolen in August 2025.

Across the street from the abandoned car, a shuttle bus had been stolen from a retail parking lot, the affidavit stated. Two people, including Brooks, were seen walking from the gas station to the parking lot before the theft.