The 23-year-old man who allegedly stole a police squad car and crashed it into a ditch in LaPorte County pleaded guilty to the allegations against him.
William Blankenship of Knox pleaded guilty in Porter Superior Court I on Monday to charges of Escape as a Class C felony and Auto Theft as a Class D felony. The plea agreement filed in the case requests a maximum six-year prison sentence and restitution for the police car, which was found submerged in a LaPorte County ditch.
