A man who led Lancaster city police on a car chase throughout the city in 2023 that ended when his vehicle severed a gas meter and crashed into a house had his maximum sentence shortened by two years on Monday because an appeals court threw out one of the most serious charges.
In July, the Pennsylvania Superior Court vacated Waleem Felder’s conviction on risking a catastrophe, agreeing with his assertion that jumping the curb and severing the gas line was accidental, so he lacked the required state of mind for a finding of guilt.
That led to Lancaster County Judge Thomas B. Sponaugle resentencing Felder, 48, of Philadelphia, to two years and nine months to 10 years in prison on charges including fleeing police, evading arrest, accident involving damage and several traffic offenses.
Felder had been serving a sentence of three years and nine months to 12 years in prison.