EUGENE, Ore. — An Oregon man was sentenced to four months in jail after pleading guilty to tampering with evidence in a fatal hit-and-run case in which authorities say his wife carried the victim on top of her car for 11 blocks before dumping the body.
Gary McDaniel entered the plea and was sentenced Thursday on the misdemeanor charge.
His wife, Isabel McDaniel, pleaded guilty last month to criminally negligent homicide and was sentenced to more than seven years in prison.
Gary McDaniel apologized during his appearance before Lane County Judge Jay McAlpin, The Register-Guard newspaper reported (http://is.gd/wxtfTY).
"I made a mistake," McDaniel said. "It was wrong, and I would do anything to take it back."
The bizarre hit-and-run occurred 14 months ago in Springfield, where police say the intoxicated Isabel McDaniel struck two pedestrians — Daniel Ortiz-Reynaga of Mexico and Julio Ortiz, the adult son he was visiting.
Authorities say McDaniel drove more than a mile with Ortiz-Reynaga on top of her car before removing him. Police found the man lying in the road after someone called 911 to report seeing the body.
He was taken to a hospital and pronounced dead.