Prosecutors in Montana have dropped felony charges against an Oak Harbor woman who was suspected of trying to conceal evidence after running over the body of an accident victim this year, the Livingston Enterprise reported.
Thursday, Sweet Grass County prosecutors filed a motion to dismiss an evidence tampering charge against 31-year-old Wyran Young. Park County prosecutors earlier dismissed a charge related to leaving the scene of a fatal accident.
Her father, Westley L. Young, 50, was still facing a charge in Park County for alleged tampering with evidence.
Investigators alleged that the Youngs went to a carwash and washed the man’s remains from a pickup truck she was driving, according to the affidavit of probable cause.
Elgie Bedford, 81, of Wasilla, Alaska, was walking on Interstate 90 on Sept. 13, 2013, when he was struck and killed by multiple vehicles.
Wryan Young testified in the October trial of David Welk, a truck driver who was found guilty in Sweet Grass County of felony leaving the scene of an accident related to Bedford’s death.
“During her testimony, Wryan Young said she’d been driving that night and ran over an object in the road near Big Timber, which she said looked like a piece of tan cloth,” the Livingston Enterprise reported.
