TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) Prosecutors say an Arkansas man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for not reporting the 2017 drug-overdose death of his ex-brother-in-law and burying the body under a shed.Investigators in Texarkana, Arkansas, say 42-year-old Chad Allen Jernigan was
the last person to see Richard York alive. Jernigan on Tuesday pleaded guilty to
abuse of a corpse.
Jernigan, who prosecutors allege supplied methamphetamine to the 45-year-old
York, was fined $10,000 and also must pay the victim’s family $1,000 for final
expenses.
Investigators say York died in July 2017 while at Jernigan’s residence and
helping move furniture.
A tip a year later helped lead to York’s bound body under the concrete floor of
a shed at Jernigan’s home.
Police in neighboring Texarkana, Texas, also helped investigate the death.
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