WOODLAND — A Woodland father and daughter learned their fates last week for their roles in a fatal hit-and-run collision.
Norma Gentry, 24, and Roberto Sanchez, 51, both pleaded no contest to felony conspiracy charges for hiding evidence related to the Nov. 12, 2015, incident in which a truck driven by Gentry’s boyfriend struck and killed pedestrian Richard Tafoya.
Gentry also admitted to an unrelated drunken-driving offense as well as violating her probation in a prior DUI case.
She was sentenced Wednesday to five months in county jail and five years of probation for the crimes, while Sanchez received a three-month jail term and three years of probation, Yolo County Deputy District Attorney Jay Linden said.
Both sentences were handed down by Yolo Superior Court Judge Paul Richardson, who last month sentenced the driver, 35-year-old Raymond Contreras, to four years and eight months in state prison.
Contreras, who was driving Gentry’s Dodge Ram truck, fled the scene after hitting Tafoya, 65, who had been walking his dog on Mariposa Street at the time. He pleaded guilty to hit-and-run causing injury or death, conspiracy to commit a misdemeanor and concealing evidence.
According to testimony offered at the defendants’ preliminary hearing in March, Contreras and Gentry told Sanchez they had damaged the pickup by striking a tire. Sanchez then filed a false insurance claim saying he had been driving the truck when it hit a milk crate on the highway.
Police arrested the trio after a local auto body shop owner reported receiving the damaged truck, and broken vehicle parts collected from the hit-and-run scene were found to match the vehicle’s damage.
— Reach Lauren Keene at lkeene@davisenterprise.net or 530-747-8048. Follow her on Twitter at @laurenkeene