Driver in the fatal 2024 accident, in which a woman was killed in Belgrade, who was sentenced to six years in prison

(Knsi) – The driver who caused A fatal crash The last January goes into prison.

Judge Heidi Schultz condemned the 54-year-old Chad Seitz from Coon Rapids to six years in prison, with a little more than a year after his time serving after his time okay to be guilty In December until a count of a criminal vehicle murder that runs a vehicle in one or two drugs in Schedule one or two criminal vehicle operation and causes body loss on one or two medication. As part of the agreement, he was convicted of significant vehicle murder and criminal vehicle operation. Five others Fees Connected to the crash and a non -related drug charge from 2021 was rejected.

According to the criminal complaint, the first aiders were called to a crash on Highway 55 in Crow Lake Township around 6:45 a.m. on January 22, 2024. The forty -one -year -old Cassie Mundfür Belgrade drove to the west on the Highway 55 when Seitz went over the center line and hit his head on the head. It was declared dead at the scene. Mitage's family said she was on the way to giving her three -year -old girl at the time of the crash in the daycare center. The girl was brought to the Glacial Ridge Hospital in Glenwood before being transferred to the children's hospital for treatment.

Soldiers spoke to Seitz, who was unharmed. Seitz told the soldier that he drove from Starbuck to the Twin Cities to go to work, and did not know what had happened, but remembered that he was beating something and went into the ditch. Later in the discussions with Seitz, the soldier said, Seitz had: “Maybe I sanded.”

He admitted to investigators that he was a regular meth user and had used marijuana and methamphetamine on January 19 and they would find a meth whistle in the vehicle, a scale and marijuana. A blood test showed that Seitz had methamphetamine, amphetamine and delta-9-THC in his system. Court files show that he was driving with an expired driver's license and was sought in two districts at the time of the crash.

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