Posted on 03/01/2023 11:10:44 AM PST by grundle
A 25-year-old man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for crashing a stolen SUV into a car and killing its driver as he sped through a stop sign in Eastside Tacoma in September.
Tyler Townsend was sentenced Friday after pleading guilty Jan. 27 to vehicular homicide, failure to remain at an accident resulting in death and two counts related to motor vehicle theft, Pierce County court records show.
Townsend, who has a lengthy criminal record, had been out of prison for less than a year when he stole a 2022 Kia Sportage in Puyallup and, a day later, crashed into a 2014 Dodge Avenger shortly after 3 p.m. at East 34th and D streets, according to court records.
The stolen SUV was traveling 62 mph when it struck the front driver-side of the Avenger, causing the SUV to roll over onto its roof. Both vehicles came to rest in a yard and planting strip. A Tacoma police officer described the crash as “a catastrophic collision,” according to a charging document filed against Townsend.
Townsend, who reportedly told authorities that he struggled with methamphetamine addiction, was previously sentenced to more than seven years in prison following a 2017 conviction for 19 felonies, including vehicle theft, eluding police and first-degree burglary, according to court records and prior reporting from The News Tribune.
Within three months of being released from prison, he was back in trouble.
Townsend crashed a stolen vehicle in Pierce County in January 2022. He was charged with possession of a stolen vehicle and obstructing an officer in that case and released on $75,000 bail, court records show.
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Too bad we can’t see what the perp looks like, given that the article lacks pictures of both the perp and victim.
Government is the enemy and these black criminals are government’a soldiers. So why do I know the criminal was dark skinned? The skin color fact was left out of the article.
Other articles about him have no pictures, either, but he sounds like white privilege to me. The 2017 article about his 19 felonies makes it sound like he committed more than 19 and was happy to brag about them. I’d like to start seeing some judges and prosecutors being fined or going to jail along with leniently sentenced repeat offenders. At least pick a target recidivism rate and suspend any judge who has more repeat offenders than the target.
2017:
https://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/crime/article149374924.html
LOL! Love it. Ms. Swan.
They are not soldiers. They are pawns, or useful until they’re not.
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