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Car ride costly for Cedar Rapids woman

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May 13th, 2019 by Ric Hanson

(Radio Iowa) — A Cedar Rapids woman who gave a wanted man car ride to a hotel will spend three months in federal prison. Twenty-eight-year-old Saudia Raquel Watkins admitted to giving a car ride to a motel to federal fugitive felon Kelsey Beckett in August of 2016, U-S Marshals say Watkins put the motel room in her name after a Deputy U-S Marshal had warned Watkins that Beckett was a fugitive and that Watkins should contact the him if she learned of Beckett’s whereabouts. The Deputy U-S Marshal says Watkins smoked marijuana with Beckett in the motel room. She then became a fugitive herself.