The driver who fatally struck Nicki Minaj‘s father has pled guilty in the February 2021 hit-and-run case. A spokesperson for the Nassau County Clerk’s Office tells ET that 71-year-old Charles Polevich pled guilty on Friday to two felony counts of leaving the scene of a fatality and tampering with physical evidence.
The judge in the case said Polevich will get no more than a year behind bars. He’ll also get community service and have his license suspended.
Polevich will formally be sentenced in August. According to Newsday, Polevich confessed to striking Robert Maraj in Long Island, New York.
He was rushed to a nearby hospital where he died from his injuries. At the plea hearing, Polevich also admitted to hiding his 1992 Volvo station wagon under a tarp when he got home in an effort to hide it.
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