A Connecticut truck driver is going through prison prices for his position in a crash that killed a 19-year veteran of the New Hampshire State Police final October.
A Rockingham County Grand Jury has indicted Jay Paul Mederios of Ashford, Conn., on one depend of negligent murder and one depend of reckless conduct in reference to the collision. Mederios was driving a tractor-trailer that collided with Workers Sgt. Jessie Sherrill’s car on Interstate 95 in Portsmouth, shortly after midnight on Oct. 28.
Mederios is accused of failing to heed a number of warning indicators and flashing lights as he entered a development zone. In line with court docket paperwork, Mederios didn’t brake or shift his lane till he was inside about 11 toes of Sherrill’s police car.
Sherrill was working an in a single day element throughout a street challenge within the northbound lanes close to Exit 3.
The indictment alleges Mederios had detectable ranges of marijuana in his blood on the time of the crash and an undisclosed quantity of marijuana within the cab of his truck. He’s scheduled to be arraigned June 17.
No different details about the crash has been launched.
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