SPOKANE, Wash. — A Spokane man was sentenced to over two months in jail after a jury found him guilty last month of attempting to elude a police car.
According to court documents and trial testimony, the case came from an April 2025 pursuit in northeast Spokane. Police said that Leslie Olson, 44, was driving a vehicle under investigation when officers turned on their lights and sirens.
Investigators said that Olson sped up instead of stopping. They said he drove at more than twice the posted speed limit through neighborhoods and did not brake at uncontrolled intersections…