A Wausau-area attorney faces criminal charges after the victim in a Marathon County criminal case abruptly asked to have the case dropped.
49-year-old Miranda Lezcano is facing a felony charge of maliciously threatening to commit injury to the property of someone reporting a crime, feeling threatening to accuse a person of a crime in order to get the person to do something against their will, and misdemeanor intimidation of a victim.
According to a story in the Dec. 1, 2025 Wausau Daily Herald:
The criminal complaint states Lezcano was handling a divorce case in which one of the parties was a victim in a criminal case. Lezcano was also working that case.
Lezcano had a subpoena issued demanding the victim bring financial records to the next hearing in the criminal case, according to the complaint. The victim contacted the Marathon County Victim-Witness Coordinator and questioned why he would have to bring financial information to the court appearance.
The coordinator wondered about the reasoning as well.
The victim told a deputy that Lezcano told him that there wouldn’t be a criminal case if the district attorney’s office didn’t have a victim.
According to the victim, Lezcano told him he should contact the Marathon County District Attorney’s Office and tell them he wanted to drop the criminal case if he wanted his divorce to go smoothly.
Lezcano’s office, according to the victim and the complaint, said they could get the victim into trouble because the victim allowed the defendant in the criminal case to use his Social Security number to get a job.
Lexcano sent the victim an email, copied to the Marathon County DA, telling the victim to send the DA an email saying he wanted to drop the case, also according to the complaint.
When the deputy talked with Lezcano, she denied threatening the victim, then declined to answer more questions that day.
Lezcano, who is free on a $2,500 signature bond, has her next court appearance scheduled for Feb. 13.
