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<p>WILKES-BARRE &#8212;It&#8217;s jail time for a Newport Township woman who pleaded guilty to a count of homicide by motor vehicle earlier this year.</p><p>Lisa Marie Yurkin, 53, appeared before Luzerne County Judge Michael T. Vough for sentencing Thursday afternoon, after she pleaded guilty in June to a third-degree felony count of homicide by vehicle.</p><p>Yurkin had been accused of fatally striking Jason Filip, 36, of Hanover Township, on Feb. 24, 2018, while he was walking on the Sans Souci Parkway.</p><p>Yurkin fled after the accident, and Filip died on scene.</p><p>In exchange for her plea, Yurkin was allowed a reduction in charges, after she was previously facing a second-degree felony count of accidents involving death.</p><p>At her sentencing hearing on Thursday, Vough ordered Yurkin to spend between 11&#189; and 23 months in the Luzerne County Correctional Facility.</p><p>However, during that time, she will be able to maintain her employment at Wilkes-Barre General Hospital, to which she will be allowed to walk from the prison for her shifts.</p><p>Yurkin was also ordered to pay $2,430 to the family of Filip to help cover the costs of the funeral.</p><p>Yurkin was traveling south on the Sans Souci when she struck Filip near the Six Strings Saloon. Two people leaving a credit union next door found him on the side of the road just after midnight.</p><p>Yurkin surrendered her vehicle later that day, telling police she thought she had hit a deer or another animal.</p><p>She denied at the time of her arrest that she was intoxicated at the time of the incident.</p><p>She was remanded to the Luzerne County Correctional Facility to begin her sentence after Thursday&#8217;s hearing.</p><style>
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<div class="neCaption">Lisa Yurkin, charged with a fatal hit and run, walks into Hanover Township district court for an arraignment. 6/28/18. Sean McKeag | Times Leader</div></div><div class="metaInfo"><photo0>https://www.timesleader.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/web1_TTL062918Yurkin1.jpg</photo0><caption0>Lisa Yurkin, charged with a fatal hit and run, walks into Hanover Township district court for an arraignment. 6/28/18. Sean McKeag | Times Leader</caption0><photoCredit0></photoCredit0></div></div>
<div class="metaInfo"><bylineMeta><p>By Patrick Kernan</p><p>pkernan@www.timesleader.com</p></bylineMeta></div><div class="metaInfo"><shirttailMeta><p>Reach Patrick Kernan at 50-991-6386 or on Twitter @PatKernan</p></shirttailMeta></div>

Newport Twp. woman gets prison time over Sans Souci death