A Carbon County man entered guilty pleas in three pending criminal cases on Tuesday morning in the county court and was sentenced to a state prison term.

Timothy Kolb, 44, of Weissport, pleaded guilty before Judge Steven R. Serfass to two counts of driving under the influence and one count of terroristic threats.

Serfass sentenced Kolb to serve a total of 16 to 36 months in a state correctional institution. However, the sentence runs concurrent to a 16- to 36-month term imposed on Kolb last Friday by Serfass in other cases.

Kolb was arrested on the threats count on Oct. 30, 2019, by Weissport police following an incident in the 200 block of White Street. Chief Matthew Williams received a dispatch from the Carbon County Communications Center requesting police response to an apartment in the 200 block of White Street for a report of a man armed with an ax threatening people. Kolb was the person with the ax.

The victim, who was Kolb’s girlfriend at the time, told Williams that Kolb had come to the apartment at around 8:30 p.m., entered her bedroom and became violent toward her, kicking her twice in the ribs. The victim said that her roommate and another woman were present when Kolb kicked her. They were able to get him to leave the apartment.

In a plea deal with the district attorney’s office, a aggravated assault charge was dropped.

He was arrested for DUI on May 18, 2019, at Bridge Street and Route 209 by Lehighton police and on June 8, 2019, along Bridge Street in Weissport by state police at Lehighton. In both cases tests revealed the present of a controlled substance.

In addition to the jail term on the DUI counts Kolb was ordered to pay fines totaling $2,500, a total of 30 months of license suspensions and a total of 150 hours of community service when paroled. In the threats case he must have no contact with the victims. He must also pay court costs of about $1,000.

The proceeding was held via video conference with Kolb in the county prison due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Also in the courtroom were court personnel including a stenographer, clerk of courts office representative, tipstaff, sheriff deputy, a probation officer, an assistant district attorney, and the attorney representing the defendant.