Vandalia man gets probation in attack of man he mistook for someone else

Montgomery County Common Pleas Courtroom. JIM NOELKER/STAFF FILE

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Credit: JIM NOELKER

Montgomery County Common Pleas Courtroom. JIM NOELKER/STAFF FILE

A Vandalia man will serve up to five years of probation with intensive supervision after he pleaded guilty to a lesser charge for attacking a man last month he apparently mistook for someone else.

Montgomery County Common Pleas Judge Angelina Jackson on Monday also sentenced 34-year-old Joshua Paul Lesko to the MonDay Community Correctional Institution, a treatment program that is an alternative to jail.

Lesko had faced up to three years in prison and up to three years parole, according to plea documents.

Joshua Lesko

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Dayton police were called at 11 a.m. Sept. 7 to the 2700 block of Triangle View Drive, where a man later identified as Lesko was assaulting another man, according to an affidavit filed in Dayton Municipal Court.

The other man, who was bleeding from the back of the head, “explained that Mr. Lesko mistook him for somebody named ‘Cory’ and began assaulting him. During this assault Mr. Lesko threw a glass bottle at (the other man), stabbed him with a metal fence hanger and punched him in the face,” the affidavit stated.

A partial video recording of the incident showed the other man trying to get away and Lesko running at him to assault him, according to the affidavit.

As part of Lesko’s plea, a count felonious assault was dismissed, court records show.

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