Getaway driver receives additional jail time

Apr 18, 2018 | 1:00 PM

A woman who evaded police for more than a year has pleaded guilty to being unlawfully at large.

Tasia Natewayes, 32, appeared Tuesday morning at Prince Albert Provincial Court, where she received a four-month sentence for the charge, which will run consecutively to the multi-year sentence she received in 2015.

Natewayes was the getaway driver during a break-and-enter in Prince Albert in 2012. Inside the house, a group of men attacked Dakota Nayneecassum, who died as a result of blood loss from a stab wound. Natewayes was sentenced by a Prince Albert judge to five years for her involvement in the incident. The Saskatchewan Court of Appeal upheld her sentence in October of 2015, and Natewayes appealed her conviction all the way to the Supreme Court but lost and failed to turn herself in after the decision in January of 2017.

Natewayes was arrested March 17 in Saskatoon, after police received a Crime Stoppers tip. According to the statement of facts heard in court Tuesday, Natewayes was arrested at Royal University Hospital where she was having a baby under a false name. Natewayes has nearly four years left on her sentence, as she was not held in custody during her appeal.