KINGSTON – A 25-year-old Kingston man was sentenced in Ulster County Court to one and one-third to four years in state prison for his previously entered guilty plea to the felony of leaving the scene of an accident without reporting a serious personal injury.
Brysen Tota was driving a car that hit a 62-year-old Accord man on Whittfield Road in the Town of Rochester and fleeing the scene. When police arrived, the victim was unconscious and had to be airlifted to Westchester Medical Center.
The evidence before Judge Bryan Rounds established that Tota fled the scene and went to pick up a friend at Newark Liberty International Airport.
He had also been indicted for the felony of tampering with physical evidence for taking his car to a car wash in an attempt to clean it of any evidence from the accident. The victim’s DNA was found on the car after it was impounded by police.
The case was investigated by State Police from the Wawarsing barracks.
