CALDWELL, ID : Drunk driver convicted in fatal Nampa crash on Thursday, 12th December, 2019

A Canyon County mother is expressing outrage after her son’s killer was released on probation after just six months in a prison program.

Joshawa Bechtel, 33, had faced a 12-year prison sentence at his rider review hearing Thursday morning. But 3rd District Judge George Southworth elected to suspend the prison sentence and place him on probation instead, citing the defendant’s improvement while participating in a program focused on substance abuse.

Bechtel was arrested May 6, 2018, after he struck a motorcycle rider on Idaho Center Boulevard in Nampa while driving drunk. The motorcyclist, 24-year-old Zachary Spoolstra, was killed in the crash.


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