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Boyfriend sentenced for 2018 deadly crash

The man admitted he cut his girlfriend's brake lines so that he could make a pipe to smoke crack.

SCRANTON, Pa. — At least 13 years behind bars; that's the punishment for the man charged with homicide in the crash that killed his girlfriend in Scranton.

A judge sentenced John Jenkins.

His girlfriend Tammy Fox died in 2018 after her car collided with a tree.

According to troopers, Jenkins admitted he cut Fox's brake lines so that he could make a pipe to smoke crack.

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