Probation in Pizza Shop Attack


A Bristol Borough man pleaded guilty to an attack at a Falls Township pizza shop.

Credit: Flickr/steakpinball
Credit: Flickr/steakpinball

The 26-year-old man pleaded guilty recently before Judge Albert Cepparulo to charges of terroristic threats, disorderly conduct and harassment. The man pleaded no contest to two counts of simple assault. A charge of defiant trespass  was previously dropped.

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Police said the man made a threatening phone call to a pizza shop on Mill Creek Road in late April.

Court papers say the man showed up at the shop a short time later and entered the pizza place through a rear door. The man then pushed a worker against a counter and struck him with a piece of a two-by-four twice in the head, police said.

Workers at the eatery stopped the man, who then pulled a razor knife from his pocket and told the man he attacked he was going to “slit his throat,” police said.

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The man left the pizza shop and was later charged. He is to be sentenced this winter later this year for the attack.