HOLLIDAYSBURG — A Cambria County man has received a sentence of 11 to 23.5 months’ incarceration, followed by three years’ probation, to address a simple assault conviction handed down in January by a Blair County jury and three additional charges on which the jury failed to reach verdicts.

Storm R. Robles, 32, Nanty Glo, opted Tuesday to enter guilty pleas to a felony count of aggravated assault and misdemeanor counts of terroristic threats and resisting arrest — the ones that the jury couldn’t decide — for no additional jail time.

“It was a deal too good to pass up,” Robles’ defense attorney Scott Pletcher said Tuesday after the sentencing hearing concluded. “He could go back to court and ask for another trial on those three charges, but why risk it?”

During his trial in January, Robles asked the jury to conclude that he had been a victim of excessive force inside the state parole office, 1304 Seventh St., on March 29, 2024.

Surveillance video — with no audio — played for the jury showed Robles inside a holding room, where he was grabbed and where officers shoved his face against a wall before forcing him onto a bench, thereby permitting him to be shackled to the floor.

Testifying parole officers indicated that Robles was grabbed because he appeared to be heading to the door of the holding room. They also testified that Robles was pushed against the wall and to the bench because he was jerking his body, yelling and swearing.

One of the parole officers who testified at trial said Robles kicked him in his groin. Robles denied doing that and told the jury that if it happened, it was unintentional. But the parole officer said he told Robles what he had done, prompting Robles to reply: “That’s what you get, you f-ing …”

Assistant District Attorney Nicholas Mays asked President Judge Wade A. Kagarise to impose a recommended county prison sentence of 11 months to 23.5 months, which equated to a time-served sentence because Robles has been incarcerated since May 8.

Pletcher asked for an adjustment, pointing out that Robles was taken into custody on April 15, 2024, in Maryland, then transported to Blair County.

When Kagarise handed down the county sentence, he recognized that Robles is also being held on a state parole detainer, preventing his immediate release. But any incarceration time beyond the county’s minimum 11 month sentence, the judge said, can be credited toward whatever time the state imposes to address the parole violation.

Before imposing sentence, the judge reminded Robles that he had the option of having another trial on the three charges. Robles said he understood that.

Mirror Staff Writer Kay Stephens is at 814-946-7456.