A Lehigh County man was sentenced to a prison term on Tuesday afternoon after entering guilty pleas in two pending cases, including fleeing the scene of a crash. He also faces a big restitution bill.

Zachary Michael Penick, 31, of Slatedale, was sentenced to serve two to 12 months on a charge of accidents involving damage to attended vehicle/property and 30 days to six months on a charge of driving under suspension. President Judge Roger N. Nanovic II imposed the prison terms and ruled they run consecutive to each other and consecutive to sentences Penick is currently serving in Lehigh and Northampton counties. Penick was sentenced last week in the other two counties on criminal charges to prison terms.Because the Carbon terms run consecutive to the other two counties, the total prison terms make it a state sentence under state sentencing guidelines.It was also noted that Penick has a detainer filed against him by the state parole board for a violation which he will have to face now that he has been sentenced at the county level.Penick was involved in a hit-and-run crash on Dec. 27, 2015, along Mauch Chunk Road in Palmerton. He was driving a vehicle that struck two parked vehicles.He then attempted to drive the heavily damaged vehicle he was operating but was only able to go a few hundred feet. He then abandoned the vehicle and fled on foot.He faces a restitution bill totaling $24,287.78 for damages done to the three vehicles involved in the crash. The vehicle Penick was driving was not his.He was originally charged with unauthorized use of an automobile and related charges because the owner of the vehicle he was driving denied giving him permission to use it. That charge and others were dropped in a plea bargain.At the time of the incident Penick's license was under suspension. Nanovic noted that it was his sixth conviction of driving under suspension.Nanovic also questioned Penick on other information in the arrest report including the allegations that he was en route to sell illegal drugs when he crashed. Penick denied that saying "I have never sold drugs. I don't do drugs."He also denied that the owner of the vehicle did not give him permission to use the vehicle.Nanovic said Penick's challenging of the police report, which he accepted when he entered his plea, was troubling to the court.Nanovic said Penick now "completely changed his version from the affidavit of probable cause."Penick also disputed a report by the adult probation department that he had no credit toward his Carbon sentence. After checking with Northampton and Lehigh county officials, the probation office personnel said any credit Penick had accumulated while in custody was given to him on the Northampton and Lehigh sentences.Nanovic also imposed a fine of $1,000 on the suspension count and ordered Penick to pay court costs of about $1,000.