Lee changes plea and is sentenced to 19 years

An Evangeline Parish resident who led authorities on a high speed chase across parish lines changed his plea in open court before taking his case to trial and received a total sentence of 19 years in prison.
Samuel David Lee entered a plea this week before the Honorable Chuck R. West to two counts of aggravated flight and battery of a police officer. For the offenses, he received a sentence of six months in the parish jail for battery of a police officer and five years at hard labor on each of the aggravated flight charges. The sentences on each count of aggravated flight will run consecutive with each other but concurrent with the sentence on battery of a police officer and concurrent with the sentences imposed in separate matters.
In those matters, Lee was sentenced to serve 19 years at hard labor without the benefit of parole, probation, or suspension of sentence after changing his pleas on charges of possession with intent to distribute oxycodone and possession of firearm by a person convicted of certain felonies.
The charges of aggravated flight and battery on a police officer stem from an incident in April of this year where Lee fled from Evangeline Parish sheriff deputies into Avoyelles Parish.
According to information obtained from the Evangeline Parish Clerk of Court Office, the pursuit began when deputy Kalinsky Ardoin noticed Lee suspiciously travelling north on U.S. Highway 167 before getting onto the Chicot Park Road and crossing La. Highway 106.
The pursuit continued in the area around Stagecoach Road, Forman Lane, and Frontier Road before Lee sped off down Bayou Toreau Road.
Deputy Ardoin, along with the assistance of Deputy Holden LaFleur, then noticed Lee and his passenger Ashley Lamb turn onto La. Highway 115 into Avoyelles Parish. The vehicle continued to drive recklessly and looped around Catfish Kitchen Road in Avoyelles Parish before heading back toward Evangeline Parish.
As the vehicle approached Milburn Road in Evangeline Parish, Lee and Lamb attempted to flee deputies on foot through fields and wooded areas. Deputies caught up to the suspects, but the suspects managed to fight off the deputies and get away before finally being apprehended at a later time.