A former prison escapee was sentenced to 24 years in prison for escaping from a Department of Corrections-operated substance abuse treatment center and attempting to kidnap a Denver resident at a Thornton Walmart store in January 2011.

Adams County District Court Judge John Popovich, who delivered the sentence on Jan. 29, also ordered that 31-year-old Daniel Krajnik serve the sentence consecutively with a ten-year prison term for his parole violation that stemmed from a 2001 attempted kidnapping and burglary conviction in Jefferson County.

Krajnik was on parole for the 24-year prison sentence in the 2001 case, when he escaped from the Peer I program.

On Jan. 3, 2012, court documents state that Krajnik followed a then 23-year-old woman into a Walmart store at 9901 Grant St. Krajnik then followed the woman for about 30 minutes inside the store and continued to follow her into the store parking lot, where he attempted to force the woman inside her car at gunpoint.

Krajnik fled after the woman was able to scream for help and break free. The gun used in the attempted kidnapping, a BB gun, was later discovered in a nearby neighborhood along with a pair of handmade flex-cuffs.

Krajnik turned himself into the Denver Police Department the following day.

An Adams County jury found Krajnik guilty of escape, attempted second-degree kidnapping, menacing and attempted motor vehicle theft on Dec. 6, 2012.