Guatemalan man gets short prison term for breaking into Lansdale apartment, attacking woman

A 31-year-old undocumented immigrant experiencing homelessness, who broke into a Lansdale home last summer, allegedly attacking and choking a woman in her bedroom, getting attacked in retaliation by the victim, and then fleeing with her iPad, pleaded guilty on Thursday to a felony burglary charge and was sentenced to 2 to 4 years in state prison.

Jonathan Isaias Avila-Arevalo, had additional felony charges of strangulation, aggravated assault, burglary and criminal trespassing dismissed at the guilty plea hearing in Montgomery County Common Pleas Court.

Common Pleas Judge Todd Eisenberg, who took over the case from Judge Steven T. O’Neill, also dismissed misdemeanor counts of simple assault, theft, receiving stolen property, and recklessly endangering another person, for county court, according to court records…

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