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Detra Farries, Who Dragged Tow Truck Driver Allen Rose To Death, Denied Early Release

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4)- The woman convicted of dragging a tow truck driver to his death in 2011 will no longer be released early from prison. The early release for Detra Farries has been denied.

Farries had been accepted into a community corrections program in Arapahoe County after serving seven-and-a-half years of her 20-year sentence. Now it looks like that will no longer happen.

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Detra Farries (credit: CBS)

A Colorado Springs jury convicted Farries of vehicular homicide and other charges in the 2011 death of Allen Lew Rose.

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Allen Rose (courtesy: MySpace)

Prosecutors said that Farries drove off as Rose was preparing to tow her SUV. He died after getting caught in a cable he had attached to her vehicle.

Farries' attorneys insisted that she didn't realize Rose was being dragged.

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