Thursday, September 23, 2021

FROM HUMPING HORSE TO FELONY ESCAPE

Colorado man accused of sex with horse flees jail, is promptly returned

 

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New York Post

September 22, 2021 

 

 


Jonah Barrett-Lesko gives himself up to Durango Police Department officers and La Plata County Sheriff’s Office deputies in the Animas River
 
 

A man who was accused of having sex with a horse escaped jail Tuesday — but made it less than a mile before he was caught and landed back behind bars.

Jonah Barrett-Lesko, 25, was captured by police in the Animas River in Durango about 25 minutes after he escaped from the La Plata County Jail, police told the Durango Herald

 

Jonah Barrett-Lesko

Jonah Barrett-Lesko

 

He was first discovered missing when police received a phone call about a man in a jumpsuit running near Office Depot, police told the paper. 

A man who was accused of having sex with a horse escaped jail Tuesday — but made it less than a mile before he was caught and landed back behind bars.

Jonah Barrett-Lesko, 25, was captured by police in the Animas River in Durango about 25 minutes after he escaped from the La Plata County Jail, police told the Durango Herald

He was first discovered missing when police received a phone call about a man in a jumpsuit running near Office Depot, police told the paper. 

a struggle.

Barrett-Lesko first made headlines when he was caught on camera allegedly having sexual intercourse with a horse at the La Plata County fairgrounds in the middle of the night on June 17.

The animal cruelty charges were dropped as part of a plea deal, and he had been locked up on trespassing charges in connection to several burglaries when he was discovered missing from the recreation yard Tuesday afternoon, according to KRQE.

According to police, Barrett-Lesko had been in the rec yard alone at the time of his escape. He was able to get over the wall, police told the Durango Herald.

“There’s a video of him going up the wall, and then using his feet on one side and back on the other side,” Sheriff’s Lt. Pat Downs Downs told the paper. “… It appears he got out of some small hole in the upper fenced-in area of the old rec yard.”

Barrett-Lesko is expected to be charged with felony escape.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"That no good thieving Horse Fucker! Get a rope!"

bob walsh said...

Maybe he was just looking for a good time.