NORTHWOOD – A Kensett man who plead guilty in January to vehicular homicide after he rear-ended another vehicle and caused another man’s death in 2012 was sentenced to ten years in prison.
Michael Scott Chodur plead guilty on November 27, 2013 to a charge of felony B vehicular homicide and was sentenced on March 3rd by Judge Gregg Rosenbladt to 10 years in prison and a fine of $1,000.
Chodur was driving a 1980 corvette on the evening of September 2, 2012, and was following another 1980 corvette driven by Lynn Maynard Weedman of Glenville, Minnesota. Both vehicles were eastbound on A39, west of Nuthatch, when the vehicle driven by Chodur rear ended the vehicle driven by Weedman. The vehicle driven by Weedman entered the north ditch and caught fire, coming to rest on its wheels, facing west in the north ditch. The vehicle driven by Chodur came to rest in the middle of the highway, facing east, where it also caught fire.
Both men were injured in the accident. Weedman was hospitalized in Iowa City and later died.
PLEAD GUILTY AND SENTENCED TO PRISON
Well, let’s just thank God he didn’t get growing some pot plants in Iowa or he’d have gotten a 5 year mandatory minimum sentence with no parole. The way things sit, he’ll be able to get out in 40 months with good time. Iowans have their priorities.