Austin trucker faces life sentence after kidnapping woman, dumping body

An Austin truck driver who dumped the body of a woman in the woods after kidnapping her faces life in prison.

Naasson Hazzard, 28, of Austin, was convicted of kidnapping resulting in death on Tuesday, according to a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas. He faces an automatic life sentence.

Hazzard picked up the woman, identified in the release as a “young sex worker,” in his semi-truck in Dallas around 9:30 p.m. on Aug. 15…

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