Rolls Driver Given Probation in Death

A hit-and-run driver who was traced through a piece of a broken light from his Rolls-Royce pleaded guilty to manslaughter in the death of an 11-year-old boy and was given five years’ probation. Edward Palenkas, a 70-year-old retired industrialist, could have gotten 15 years in prison. A Phoenix judge also ordered him to perform 20 hours of community service a week and donate $20,000 to anti-drunk driving groups. Christopher “Kipp” Turner was walking home from a video store in Scottsdale in 1994 when he was hit by Palenkas’ Rolls-Royce Silver Cloud. After the accident, investigators took pieces of a turn-signal lens found at the scene, identified a partial serial number on the plastic and tracked down Palenkas a day after the accident.