ELKTON — A man who broke into his neighbor’s Elkton-area apartment during the early-morning hours of Sept. 7 and cut one of the three occupants with a knife as they tried to subdue him received a one-year sentence Wednesday after accepting a plea deal, according to Cecil County Circuit Court records.
Cecil County Circuit Court Judge Cameron A. Brown imposed the one-year sentence on Celestino Patish-Tan, 20, after the defendant entered an Alford plea to first-degree burglary, court records show. In an Alford plea, the defendant maintains his innocence while acknowledging that the state possesses enough evidence to convict him at trial.
In exchange for his Alford plea, prosecutors dismissed eight related charges against Patish-Tan, including home invasion, armed robbery, second-degree assault and reckless endangerment, according to court records…