INDIANAPOLIS -- A Franklin Township school bus driver charged with being drunk while children were on board has reached a plea deal.

Phillip Leslie, 48, was arrested March 3 after students said he had driven on the wrong side of the road, stopped at the same houses several times and struck at least one mailbox as he drove Kitley Intermediate School students home.

He was charged with felony neglect of a dependent, felony operating a vehicle with blood-alcohol concentration above 0.15 with a minor passenger in the vehicle, criminal recklessness and operating a vehicle while intoxicated.

On Thursday, Leslie pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of criminal recklessness and one felony count of operating a vehicle while intoxicated with a minor, which carry a sentence of a little more than a year in prison.

He will also have his license suspended for one year.

The supervisor of transportation for the Franklin Township school system, Susan Fields, resigned in the wake of Leslie's arrest, after it was revealed that she had received two prior reports of Leslie coming to work with an alcohol odor on his breath.

Police said an empty liquor bottle was found in Leslie's car in the parking lot of the schools' transportation center after his arrest.

Leslie's sentencing is set for May 21.