Lesko sentenced to 2 years and 1 day

An Ohio woman, who led Williamsburg police on a vehicle pursuit in May in a stolen truck while she was intoxicated, has been sentenced to prison.

Angel Lesko, 30, of Cumberland, pleaded guilty on July 6 to operating a motor vehicle while under the influence of intoxicants, first-degree fleeing or evading police, receiving stolen property under $10,000-auto, third-degree terroristic threatening, and first-degree wanton endangerment.

During her formal sentencing hearing on Aug. 2, Judge Dan Ballou followed the plea agreement, which called for Lesko to receive a total sentence of two years and one day in prison.

Ballou also ordered Lesko to pay $765 in fines, fees and court costs once she is released from custody, and to pay $5,500 restitution to the Decatur, Georgia man, who owned the stolen pick-up truck that she was driving, according to court records.

The incident started about 6:30 a.m. on May 2 when Williamsburg police received a complaint about a woman passed out and slumped over behind the wheel of a 2010 maroon Toyota Tundra truck at a gas station off Exit 11, according to an arrest citation.

When Williamsburg Police Officer Dorman Patrick Jr. arrived at the scene, he observed Lesko allegedly passed out sitting in the driver’s seat appearing “obviously impaired,” he wrote on an arrest citation.

Lesko refused to roll down the window, and she would not exit the vehicle.

She then sped off at a high rate of speed, according to a citation.

“Lesko is accused of being highly intoxicated while operating a vehicle, and fleeing from police resulting in a three-mile vehicle pursuit through Williamsburg,” Williamsburg police wrote in a release.

Once Lesko stopped the vehicle, she refused to exit the vehicle and shouted, “that she had a gun and that she was going to shoot herself and me and another police officer on scene,” Patrick wrote on a citation. No gun was found inside the vehicle though.