PORT ANGELES — Kendell K. Huether’s sentencing hearing for crimes connected to the 2011 murder of Jennifer Pimentel was postponed Tuesday to June 18.
Clallam County Superior Court Judge George L. Wood reset the sentencing after defense attorney Karen Unger reported that she was in the process of getting information about the presentencing investigation, according to the minutes of the hearing.
Huether, 26, pleaded guilty April 22 to rendering criminal assistance to Kevin A. Bradfield, the Port Angeles man who was sentenced last week to 25 years in prison for Pimentel’s murder.
Authorities said Huether helped Bradfield hide Pimentel’s remains in a wooded area near the Hood Canal Bridge after Bradfield strangled the developmentally disabled woman.
Huether was found guilty in an April bench trail of two counts of witness tampering for attempting to cover up the death.
According to court documents, Huether induced William Purcell and Ryan Mongar to lie to police about when she and Bradfield last saw Pimentel after the 27-year-old woman was reported missing.
At the time, Huether already knew that Pimentel had been strangled, court papers said.
Purcell and Mongar did not know Pimentel’s fate.
Rendering criminal assistance and witness tampering are both Class C felonies.
Huether has been living in the Port Angeles area on home monitoring.
Bradfield is being held at the Washington Corrections Center in Shelton.
