Yuma woman sentenced to 3½ years for hit-and-run that hospitalized bicyclist

Yuma — Yancy Gregoria Antonio, 21, was sentenced in late February 2026 to 3½ years in prison after pleading guilty earlier this year to three counts of leaving the scene of an accident in connection with an April 28, 2025 crash that left a 48-year-old hospitalized. Court filings and charging language list the counts as leaving the scene; prosecutors pursued a prison term following Antonio’s guilty plea.

Records show Antonio was arrested in April 2025 shortly after the collision in Yuma, and the case moved to plea negotiations in early 2026 before the sentencing hearing in late February. The charging information filed in the case identifies multiple counts tied to her departure from the crash scene; local reporting lists the specific count total as three counts of leaving the scene of an accident.

The available accounts conflict on a key detail about the injured person. One report describes the victim as a 48-year-old bicyclist who was seriously injured and hospitalized after the April 28 collision. Another account describes the crash as involving a motorcycle and a 48-year-old man who was left hospitalized. Those differences have not been reconciled in publicly available court or police documents, and the victim’s exact status — bicycle rider or motorcyclist — remains to be confirmed through the Yuma Police Department crash report or the Superior Court docket.

Antonio’s co-defendant in the case, 24-year-old Israel Preciado, was sentenced to 36 months of probation after pleading or being convicted on a charge of tampering with physical evidence tied to the same incident. Public filings do not indicate whether Preciado’s probationary sentence was imposed in the same hearing as Antonio’s prison term or on a separate date, and court records reviewed do not list the presiding judge or the sentencing minute order in the publicly available summaries.

Key procedural details remain unlisted in the public summaries: the exact sentencing date in late February 2026, the court name and docket number, whether restitution or fines were ordered, and whether Antonio received credit for time served between her April 2025 arrest and her late February 2026 sentence. Prosecutors sought terms grounded in the leaving-the-scene counts contained in the charging documents; the statutory citations and sentencing rationale do not appear in the summary material available.

The case leaves outstanding questions for Yuma County officials and the courts to answer: clarification of the injured person’s mode of travel, the full charging and sentencing paperwork, and whether additional evidence-handling issues prompted the tampering charge against Preciado. Those records are essential for understanding how local crash investigations and court processing produced a prison sentence for Antonio and probation for Preciado in connection with the April 2025 collision.