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COLORADO SPRINGS, COLO. --

The Colorado Springs Police Department said 32-year-old Detra Farries has been arrested on manslaughter charges in the dragging death of 35-year-old Allen Rose, a Colorado Springs tow truck driver.

Farries' MySpace pages said she's married, a mother and a student at Metropolitan State College of Denver studying Social Work.  She was booked into the El Paso County Jail Friday evening, and by Saturday afternoon word had spread to the residents of the Hill Park apartment complex, where the horrific ordeal started.

"Obviously it's going be up to the court to figure out what happened, but there has to be accountability for something like that," Hill Park resident Scott Baros said.

Some are happy an arrest has finally been made.

"I'm surprised that they didn't do it sooner," Colorado Springs resident Angelina Valdez said. "I thought they've have somebody sooner."

Police said Farries was driving the SUV, and their investigation is still ongoing. Denver County court records shows Farries has several priors including: driving without a license, no insurance and operating an unsafe vehicle. 

According to the Denver Post, her husband Terroll Farries Jr. was sentenced to four years in prison back in 2009 for a fatal hit-and-run that killed Kathy Hill-Young.

Rose was killed Wednesday while attempting to tow an illegally parked SUV at the Hill Park Apartments near Platte Avenue and Murray Boulevard when Farries jumped into the car and took off.  He became entangled in a chain and was dragged for over a mile. He worked for J&J Towing.

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The Colorado Springs Police Department said a woman has been arrested on manslaughter charges in the dragging death of a Colorado Springs tow truck driver.

Police said 32-year-old Detra Farries was booked into the El Paso County Jail Friday evening.

Thirty-five-year-old Allen Rose was killed Wednesday after he attached a chain to an illegally parked SUV and was preparing to tow it when someone jumped inside and drove it away.

Investigators said the chain snapped and Rose somehow got entangled in it and was dragged for over a mile.

The investigation is still ongoing and no additional information, including a mug shot, was released.

Rose was married with two children. 

According to a spokesperson for the Rose family, a funeral for Allen is scheduled for Tuesday at 11:00 a.m. at Springs First Church of the Nazarene.

The service will be open to the public.