Arkansas Man Gets 10 Years In 2017 Death, Buried Corpse
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.