A 39-year-old Weld County man pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of second-degree murder in the deaths of two men from Oklahoma.
Jack Larkin faces up to 60 years in prison after reaching a plea agreement in which each count of second-degree murder carries a prison sentence of 25 to 30 years, according to the district attorney’s office.
Larkin and his half-brother, Samuel Pinney, planned and executed a bogus marijuana deal with intent to instead rob and murder a victim. The heinous crime left two men dead in October 2015.
Larkin and Pinney lured Joshua Foster of Oklahoma to Colorado to sell him marijuana, which he, in turn, could sell back home, a DA’s news release said.
Larkin and Pinney planned to rob Foster and kill him. Foster’s friend, Zach Moore, also from Oklahoma, came to Colorado. He also was murdered. After both men were killed, Larkin and Pinney burned the bodies in a truck in rural Weld County.
In June, a jury convicted Pinney on two counts of first-degree murder. He is serving two life sentences in prison.
Larkin is scheduled to be sentenced Sept. 27.
