AUBURN — A Maine man is heading to prison for two weeks for a 2013 road rage incident that a prosecutor says is one of the worst he’s ever seen.
The Sun Journal reports the sentence was handed down against 33-year-old Adam Getchell, who pleaded guilty to reckless conduct and criminal mischief on Thursday.
The Auburn man was convicted in March of driving to endanger, but acquitted of a hate crime in the incident.
Authorities had said Getchell tried to block 19-year-old motorist Matthew Wooten Jr. from passing him. When Wooten did pass him, Getchell apparently swerved and hit Wooten’s rear fender.
A police recording caught Getchell using racial epithets afterward inside a police cruiser.
Getchell wrote in a letter to the court that he apologized for his poor choices.
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