WILKES-BARRE — A Duryea man pleaded guilty to a non-criminal harassment offense related to a stabbing in Duryea in May.
Duryea police charged Askia Anthony Riddick, 29, with assaulting a woman who was found with stab wounds to her legs inside a residence in the 100 block of Lackawanna Avenue on May 17, according to a news release.
Police responded to the residence after neighbors reported hearing children crying.
During a preliminary hearing in Luzerne County Central Court on Tuesday, Riddick pled guilty to the non-criminal harassment charge, while charges of aggravated assault and simple assault were withdrawn.
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