A Racine man who injured a Walworth County sheriff’s deputy who was deploying stop sticks in the Town of Spring Prairie on Aug. 1, 2021, was sentenced to 25 years in prison and 14 years extended supervision.
Tony Perales, 26, an unlicensed driver who was fleeing from police when deputy Wayne Blanchard was injured, pleaded guilty to first-degree reckless injury, fleeing from an officer resulting in great bodily harm, knowingly operate a motor vehicle without a valid license causing great bodily harm, felony bail jumping and injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle. Charges of injury by use of a vehicle with a prohibited alcohol concentration and injury by use of a vehicle with a restricted controlled substance in his system were dismissed.
He was sentenced Nov. 17 in Walworth County Circuit Court to 12 years in prison and five years extended supervision on the reckless injury charge; seven years in prison and five years extended supervision on the fleeing charge; six months in prison for operating without a valid license; a year in prison and a year extended supervision for bail jumping; and five years in prison and three years extended supervision for injury by intoxicated use of a vehicle. All of the sentences are to run consecutively with the exception of the six-month term, which will run concurrently.
