Denver Good Samaritan Car-Jacker Sentenced To 5 Years

DENVER, CO -- A man who crashed his car on I-70 last April and then threatened and forced a witness to drive him away from the accident was sentenced Friday in Denver District Court.

Jonathan Singlevich, 37, pleaded guilty in January to the original count of menacing and was sentenced to four years in prison. He got an extra year sentence for not showing up at a work-release check-in. A kidnapping charge was dismissed as part of his plea, according to a press release from the Denver District Attorney's Office.

On April 4, 2017, Singlevich was marked as an "escapee" from a Denver community corrections facility work-release program. Early that same morning, he was involved in a one-car accident on I-70. A Good Samaritan saw him running from the scene and stopped to see if he was all right, according to a statement from the DA's office.

"Singlevich threatened and forced the victim to drive him to the vicinity of a nearby motel," the press release said.

The two sentences are to run consecutively.

Image Jonathan Singlevich via Denver Count District Attorney