MINEOLA, N.Y. (AP) — The motive force in a hit-and-run crash that killed the daddy of rapper Nicki Minaj final yr was sentenced Wednesday to a yr in jail, consistent with a promise the decide made when the person pleaded responsible in Could.
Charles Polevich, who pleaded responsible to leaving the scene and tampering with proof within the crash on New York’s Lengthy Island that killed Robert Maraj, was additionally ordered to pay a $5,000 tremendous and had his driver’s license suspended for six months.
Polevich’s lawyer, Marc Gann, prompt his shopper could have had a medical difficulty on the time of the crash and that he wasn’t absolutely conscious of what had occurred when he fled.
Polevich, 72, mentioned in courtroom that he’s “been heartsick since realizing the extent of the tragedy” and that there was “no excuse” for his conduct.
Maraj’s widow, Carol Maraj, mentioned in courtroom that Polevich had left her husband “like a canine on the road” and that sparing him an extended jail sentence was a “slap within the face for the household,” Newsday reported.
Polevich struck Maraj, 64, whereas Maraj was strolling alongside Roslyn Street in Mineola in February 2021. Polevich stopped briefly to ask Maraj if he was OK, however didn’t name for assist, prosecutors mentioned.
As an alternative, Polevich went dwelling, parked the automotive — a white, 1992 Volvo station wagon — in his storage and coated it with a tarp, prosecutors mentioned. Maraj was taken to a hospital and pronounced useless the following day.
Prosecutors sought a sentence of 1 to a few years behind bars, however Nassau County Decide Howard Sturim mentioned in Could, when Polevich pleaded responsible, that he would get “no a couple of yr in jail.”
Brendan Brosh, a spokesperson for the Nassau County district legal professional’s workplace, mentioned that “given the severity of the defendant’s conduct,” prosecutors felt a stiffer sentence was warranted.
“We proceed to specific our condolences to the household of Robert Maraj,” Brosh mentioned.
Gann requested for a 90-day jail sentence, arguing that different elements exterior of Polevich’s management had been partially guilty for the crash, together with street development, avenue lights that weren’t working and Maraj’s bodily situation.
Maraj’s widow, Carol Maraj, is suing Polevich over the crash.
Polevich, who had been splitting time between Lengthy Island and Guam, the place he runs a drilling and water purification enterprise, surrendered to police a couple of days after the crash.
Detectives mentioned they used items of surveillance video to trace the Volvo concerned within the crash to Polevich’s Mineola dwelling.
Nicki Minaj, the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated rapper of “Anaconda,” “Tremendous Bass” and different hits, was born Onika Tanya Maraj in Trinidad and was raised in Queens.
In a put up on her web site, Minaj, 39, known as her father’s demise “probably the most devastating lack of my life.”
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