“The driver who killed Nicki Minaj's father, Robert Maraj, in a hit-and-run was just sentenced to time behind bars.

Charles Polevich was ordered to serve 1 year in jail Wednesday after pleading guilty to two felony charges -- leaving the scene of an incident without reporting and tampering with physical evidence. On top of that, his driver's license will be suspended for 6 months and he'll pay a $5,000 fine.

Polevich was facing up to 7 years behind bars, but Judge Howard Sturim followed through with a commitment to sentence him to no more than one year in jail.

TMZ broke the story ... Nicki's dad died at the age of 64 after being struck in a hit-and-run accident back in February 2021 while he was walking on Long Island.

At the time, cops said the driver fled the scene and tried to hide the car in a detached garage at his place. Robert was rushed to a hospital in critical condition and died from his injuries.

Nicki eventually opened up about the tragedy on her website saying ... "I can say it has been the most devastating loss of my life." “

tmz.com/2022/08/03/nicki-minaj-dad-killer-sentenced-jail-hit-run

If this ain’t white privilege then I don’t know what is.
I get it’s cool to hate on Nicki cause of certain things, but this is just completely f***ed.

how do you get the judge to a commitment like that?

he even fled the scene and got 1 year

More like NY driver privilege, you don't get shit for killing people with your car here

Someone killed a toddler recently in the Bronx from driving recklessly and they didn't even get charged, NYPD doesn't prosecute traffic s*** at all

That’s f***ing insane

Must be related to the judge cause ain’t no way

Why is this tho

remind me to never visit new york

Unreal. New York a complete joke

Wtf I didn’t know about this. Rip to him. But only 1 year? That’s some straight up bullshit.

Jesus

New York f***ing stinks

🤦🏾

Seems f***ed up

Live in NYC, me and all my friends have gotten hit by cars at some point. We were all drunk most of the time though. One time a cab came flying and I stretched my arm out and basically surfed on the car hood for 10 feet it was nuts.

I honestly have no idea, You could easily meet 5x the quota of arrests or tickets or w/e by enforcing existing traffic law here. It's cool to see ATVs and s*** but way less cool in every other aspect lol

Right after the Floyd protests, NYPD stopped doing s*** for traffic - like they publicly stated it to at least some effect, lemme try to find that so I know I didn't make this up... but I think it stemmed from 1) cops are lazy above all 2) this was at a time when a lot of cops were out due to covid or quit to refuse the mandate, so there were ostensibly lower numbers of employees to investigate reports (if you believe NYPD logic)

S*** is scary if you try to ride a bike in a Brooklyn bike lane, it's been a record high the last two years for people getting mowed down by cars - no joke these days its a 20% chance you get at least hit

Part of me thinks we're just so deeply car-centric now that people in the justice system don't want to be hard on negligent drivers, whether its cops or jury members or a judge or w/e. They really think "well, that mom with her kid should have been more aware of the Escalade, I mean how was the driver supposed to see them? It's a big car!" as opposed to the other way around

My friend was hit by a car in Long Island too in 2010. The dude who killed her got no time.

Sad, my grandad died from a home intruder n my ma still tore up about it to this day, especially everytime it comes close to his bday

You'll never get over it nor will it ever get easier

Wow I forgot this happened

Insane

damn. was the dude drunk driving?

Hit and run..

Pretty cut and dry

Nah this is WILD wtf ?