One of two suspects accused of stealing $1,300 worth of alcohol from the South Church Street ABC store and leading law enforcement on a series of car chases last year has pleaded guilty. The other is scheduled for a two-day trial starting Feb. 18.

Court records show 42-year-old Tia Browne of Newport News was sentenced to two years in prison after she pleaded guilty in August to grand larceny, eluding police and failing to report a motor vehicle crash, all stemming from the March 14 ABC theft. She’s also been ordered to make restitution to ABC of $1,640.57 within 90 days of her release.

Police say Browne fled the scene of the theft and led them on a nearly hour-long chase that resulted in her colliding with, and injuring the occupants of, an uninvolved vehicle at Benns Church Boulevard and South Church Street. She fled northwest toward the Isle of Wight-Surry county line where she was apprehended.

Christopher Cheek, 35, of South Boston, is accused of being a participant in the theft and a passenger in Browne’s car. Police allege that Cheek fled on foot following Browne’s capture and evaded arrest for roughly nine hours despite a coordinated search by Smithfield police, the Isle of Wight County Sheriff’s Office, Virginia State Police and Windsor Police Department that included K9s.

The mayhem resumed the morning of March 15 when the Sheriff’s Office received a call about a man, whom police allege was Cheek, sleeping in the back of someone’s vehicle at a home in Rushmere. Before deputies could arrive, Cheek allegedly stole a nearby car that was unoccupied but left running and led police on another 15-mile chase east to the Isle of Wight-Suffolk line. About 20 minutes after crossing the Suffolk city line, a license plate reader camera captured an image of the same vehicle reentering Isle of Wight, prompting a third and final chase that ended in the parking lot of the Smithfield Hardee’s on South Church Street.

There, Cheek allegedly exited the vehicle and unsuccessfully attempted to carjack an elderly woman in the drive-thru.

Cheek faces two felony counts of grand larceny, one felony count of eluding police, one felony count of carjacking and a misdemeanor count of reckless driving. He faces a minimum three years in prison if convicted on the carjacking and eluding charges.

The March 14 theft was one of at least 20 larcenies reported at the Smithfield store over the past two years. Though it’s a much smaller number of incidents than seen at ABC stores in Hampton Roads’ larger cities, it prompted Smithfield police to contact the Virginia Alcoholic Beverage Control Authority’s Board of Directors last year to discuss improving security at the South Church Street store.