12-month sentence for rollover death

NEWPORT – A man who was 20 at the time and who had meth in his system, was driving a car that rolled and wrecked, killing his 17-year-old girlfriend in 2022. Judge Robin McCroskey sentenced him to 12 months in the county jail for his role in the girl’s death Thursday, Oct. 9 in Pend Oreille County Superior Court.

Garrett Neil Willis, now 23, had pleaded guilty to vehicular homicide disregard for the safety of others on July 24.