Victim Will Suffer Long-term Pain and Disability
Bronx District Attorney Darcel D. Clark announced that a Manhattan man has been sentenced to seven years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree Assault and Leaving the scene of an Incident without Reporting, for crashing a truck he stole into a man on White Plains Road, causing permanent injuries.
District Attorney Clark said, “The defendant stole a flatbed truck and while driving in a reckless manner, crashed into the pedestrian, crushing him into the side of another vehicle. He then fled the scene, leaving the victim with broken bones, a punctured lung and two fingers severed. The defendant’s reckless actions have now been answered with a substantial prison sentence.”
The defendant, Carl Jenkins, 61, of East 30th Street, Manhattan was sentenced today to seven years in prison and five years post-release supervision on second-degree Assault and Leaving the Scene of an Incident Without Reporting by Bronx Supreme Court Justice Shari Michaels. Jenkins pleaded guilty to the charges on October 7, 2024.
According to the investigation, on April 22, 2022, the defendant got into a 2002 Mitsubishi flatbed truck parked in front of a lumber yard on White Plains Road that did not belong to him. The keys were inside. Video cameras recorded his taking the truck and later captured him driving in a reckless manner further down White Plains Road. He struck a 49-year-old-man, crushing him into the side of another vehicle. The victim suffered a punctured lung, broken bones in one arm, broken ribs, two severed fingers, broken teeth, and internal bleeding. Surgeons had to implant titanium plates and screws into his right forearm and ribs.
District Attorney Clark also thanked Detective 2nd Grade Carl Beal of the 47th Precinct for his work on the case.
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