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A female member of the Ute Indian Tribe has been indicted in federal court in connection with a June crash that killed the driver of a street sweeper on the Uintah and Ouray Reservation.
Wilda Annie Manning, 49, was charged Wednesday in U.S. District Court with two counts of involuntary manslaughter while within Indian Country for the June 3 death of Steven Goodrich, 25.
An arrest warrant issued last month by a Ute tribal judge alleges that Manning's GMC Yukon rear-ended the street sweeper on a Uintah County road running through the reservation community of Randlett.
The charges state that at the time of the crash Manning 1) had a measurable amount of a controlled substance or the metabolite of a controlled substance in her body and 2) used a handheld wireless communication device to write, read or send a written communication, or to dial a phone number.
Goodrich, who was not wearing a seat belt, was partially ejected and became pinned under his rig.
Manning, after being treated for minor injuries at the hospital, initially could not be found by investigators. However, Bureau of Indian Affairs police reported that she turned herself in Dec. 9 after learning of the arrest warrant.
An initial court appearance is set for Feb. 3.