Tim Ryan, tryan@shawanoleader.com
A Shawano teen who was charged as an adult with multiple felony counts related to a joyriding spree last year was sentenced Thursday to six and a half years in prison.
Lindsay R. Holstrom, 17, pleaded no contest in January to five counts of auto theft, as well as felony counts of reckless endangerment, fleeing an officer and bail jumping.
She will have to spend another six and a half years on extended supervision after she serves her prison time.
The sentence handed down by Shawano-Menominee Circuit Court Judge James Habeck was much harsher than recommended by the state.
District Attorney Greg Parker had recommended a withheld sentence and a year in jail as a condition of four years of probation.
Parker said after the sentencing that his recommendation was in line with the approach often taken with youthful offenders.
However, he said, “I would have to agree with the judge’s analysis.”
Parker said Habeck didn’t see Holstrom as an appropriate risk for the community, given a record that included additional offenses while she was out on bond.
“She committed a crime every time she was let out of jail,” Parker said.
Parker also noted during the sentencing hearing that Holstrom had 27 jail violations while she was incarcerated, including a fight.
Holstrom was accused of stealing three cars and trying to steal a fourth during a 12-hour crime spree in Shawano on May 12. She was waived into adult court on the charges.
She was later accused of stealing another car in the city on June 21 after she was released on a $3,000 signature bond in the earlier case. A $10,000 cash bond was ordered after her second arrest.
During the June 21 incident, Holstrom drove through several yards attempting to elude police, striking and damaging a boat trailer at one point and ramming the front driver’s side corner of a patrol car that had pulled up alongside her, according to the criminal complaint.
The roughly quarter-mile pursuit ended with Holstrom ditching the vehicle and fleeing on foot. The Police Department’s K-9 unit was brought in, and Shawano County sheriff’s deputies assisted in the search. She was located in a nearby backyard.
Three other felony counts of bail jumping and 12 misdemeanor bail jumping counts were dismissed under the plea agreement, along with misdemeanor counts of resisting an officer, theft and criminal damage to property.