Muskego Woman Charged For Role in Waukesha Pill Sales

A Muskego woman and her Denny’s coworker are facing multiple felony drug charges after they were caught in a police sting selling morphine pills to a police informant.

Joanna R. Lesak, 28, and Brandon J. Lehr, 18, of Waukesha, are facing a combined 10 drug charges for selling the pills to a police informant on three different occasions in Waukesha. If convicted, Lesak faces up to 49 years in prison and Lehr faces up to 52 years in prison.

According to the criminal complaint:

On Feb. 24, Lehr agreed to sell the informant morphine pills in the parking lot of a business in the 2600 block of North Grandview Boulevard. When the informant arrived, Lehr told him they needed to go to a nearby Denny’s to get the pills.

When they arrived, Lehr tried to enter a Jeep in the parking lot was unsuccessful. The informant then left, but Lehr called him back saying he got in, so he met up with him again and completed the transaction.

The informant set up another buy with Lehr on March 15 and met him in the same parking lot. He gave Lehr the money, then police watched Lehr go down the road and go to the same Jeep to obtain the pills, then come back and complete the deal with the informant.

A third deal was set up Thursday and the informant met Lehr in the parking lot of a business near Highway 164 and Pearl Street. Lehr took the money and went to another location to meet Lesak, who was driving the Jeep.

She then went to a Muskego Walgreens and filled a prescription through the drive-thru and drove Lehr back to meet the informant to complete the deal. After they left, each was pulled over and arrested by police and officers also found a small amount of marijuana inside Lesak’s SUV.

Lehr told police someone had contacted him about buying pills and he thought of Lesak because they worked together at Denny’s and she was always trying to get him to buy her pills.

Lesak admitted to selling her pills, saying she did so because didn’t make enough money at her job.

She’s currently free on $1,000 bond and a $3,000 surety bond.