Trucker to do jail time for fatal crash

HILLSBORO, N.D. (AP) — A Florida truck driver charged in a crash on Interstate 29 in North Dakota that killed a South Dakota woman and injured a county sheriff during a March snowstorm has been sentenced to 90 days in jail.

Authorities say 38-year-old Alexander Morales-Santana of Cape Coral, Fla., was driving a semitrailer that crashed into Traill County Sheriff Mike Crocker's sport utility vehicle about eight miles north of Hillsboro, injuring the sheriff and killing 20-year-old Cassandra DeVaney of Watertown, S.D.

Crocker was helping DeVaney and another Watertown woman after their car had gotten stuck on the interstate and been hit by another semi.

Morales-Santana entered Alford pleas on two counts of felony reckless endangerment. In an Alford plea, a defendant does not admit wrongdoing but acknowledges there is enough evidence for a conviction.

Morales-Santana must also pay $2,430 in restitution to Traill County and serve three years of supervised probation. Two other counts of felony reckless endangerment against him were dropped as part of a plea agreement.