The man who pleaded guilty to hitting and killing a cyclist on the 11th Street Bridge in 2022 will have the items from his car returned to his family.
Mark Phipps, through his attorneys, filed a motion on Nov. 12, 2024, for the return of belongings and for the car he was driving when he fatally struck Gloria San Miguel.
The motion asked that his car and the tools inside the car be returned to his sister while he serves out his sentence at the Southeast State Correctional Complex in Wheelwright, Kentucky.
On March 23, an order for the return of belongings held in evidence was filed. The following items are to be returned to Phipps’ sister, Yolanda Phipps. A bag of socket wrenches, a reverse socket wrench, any and all buckets of tools, jumper cable boxes, fifty-five-gallon garbage bags, bowling balls, one gallon of weed killer, a set of keys, and any and all paperwork retrieved from the glove box of the vehicle subject to this case.
Though Phipps’ 2024 motion also requested the return of the car, the 2025 order of return does not mention it.
San Miguel was riding her bike on the 11th Street Bridge between Newport and Covington when Phipps struck and killed her on Aug. 20, 2022. Phipps, 61, pled guilty in July of that year to second-degree manslaughter, tampering with physical evidence, leaving the scene of an accident, and driving on a suspended license.
Phipps was sentenced to 10 years in September 2023.
