Carson man in girlfriend-dragging case pleads guilty

Ty Eric Weaver pleaded guilty Wednesday to two gross misdemeanors related to dragging a woman with a car while her 5-year-old son sat in the back seat.

Weaver entered the plea just before his jury trial for two felony charges: Assault with a deadly weapon and failure to stop at the scene of an accident involving personal injury.

He pleaded guilty to conspiracy to leave the scene of an accident involving personal injury, and child neglect or endangerment. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of one year of incarceration and $2,000 in fines. It is the judge's discretion whether the sentences are served concurrently or consecutively. Weaver's sentencing is scheduled for March 20.

Toni Emmons said she went to pick up Weaver from his house on May 25, about two months after the former high school acquaintances started dating. She had her son in the back seat. According to a court deposition, Emmons said he was acting funny when he got into her 2001 Ford Escape.

"I asked him, 'When was the last time you got high?'" she said in the deposition.

She said he responded by punching her in the face. He then threw his 7-Eleven Big Gulp soda in her face, according to the arrest report.

"I remember gasping and the next thing I knew, I was being shoved out my door," she said in the deposition.

She said she grabbed onto the door while Weaver floored it. According to the deposition, she said she heard the automatic transmission upshift twice while she held on and was dragged across the asphalt. Her grip eventually broke and she slammed into the ground, according to the deposition.

When asked by an attorney during deposition why she held on for so long, she said she was afraid "that he was going to take off with my kid and in the state of his mind that he was in, who knows. I might not have ever seen my child again."

According the August deposition, she still had a scar above her lip "maybe half the size of the tip of my finger" and scarring on her legs.