A Philadelphia man, involved in a standoff with police earlier this year, entered guilty pleas on Monday in Carbon County court and was sentenced to a county prison term.

Yusef Wescott Jr., 30, pleaded to one count each of simple assault and recklessly endangering another person.

He was arrested for an incident on Feb. 2 at a residence along West Abbott Street by Lansford police.

According to the affidavit of probable cause filed by Sgt. Shawn Nunemacher at 10:34 a.m. Nunemacher was dispatched to a home in the 100 block of West Abbott Street for a man who had shot a gun at someone. The caller was the mother of the woman who was inside the home.

Officers set up a perimeter and were able to safely take Wescott into custody. There were three small children and a woman located inside.

While clearing the home, Nunemacher located a small door leading to an attic crawl space area which was partially open, at which time officers found a 9 mm Ruger.

An interview was conducted with the woman’s brother, who came to help his sister because she was having problems with her boyfriend, Wescott. The brother said he was on the second floor with Wescott when they began having an argument and Wescott attacked him from the side and took him down to the ground and was hitting him from the top. His friend got Wescott off of him, and Wescott then ran into another area of the house.

He said his sister then told them that Wescott was going to get a gun and they needed to run, so they did.

Once outside, they heard a gunshot. Wescott was then standing at the door, waving the brother’s friend’s keys, taunting them with the keys before throwing them across the street and into the snow. The brother’s friend said while his friend was upstairs, he stayed on the first floor and heard banging and kids screaming. He said he drew his concealed firearm and attempted to get Wescott off the woman’s brother, but Wescott rushed him.

Wescott’s girlfriend initially denied that Wescott had done anything, but then said a man came into the residence and pointed a gun at Wescott. She said Wescott chased the man out of the house and accidentally fired his gun.

She said she saw the red laser on Wescott, and that upon seeing guns she took her children and hid in the bathroom. Nunemacher asked how she knew then that Wescott didn’t shoot the weapon at someone, and she said she just knows.

Wescott said that his girlfriend’s brother came over and they got into a fight. Wescott said that he was pulled off his girlfriend’s brother by an unknown man who pointed a gun at him, and added he saw the red laser from the gun, so he charged the man.

Wescott said he was afraid so he went to get his gun, and said he heard his girlfriend tell them that he was getting a gun. While trying to run downstairs, Wescott said he accidentally discharged his firearm into the floor at the bottom of the steps. When asked why he hid the gun, Wescott said it was because he was scared.

In exchange for the plea, the district attorney’s office dropped counts of aggravated assault and risking catastrophe.

On the assault count Nanovic sentenced him to serve one to 18 months in prison and on the recklessly endangering charge, two to 18 months with the terms running concurrently.

He was also ordered to attend and successfully complete an anger management course, pay court costs of over $1,000 and a $50 per month supervision fee while on parole.

He was given credit for 11 days already served. He will serve the remaining 49 days on consecutive weekends of Friday to Sunday beginning on Oct. 29 at 6 p.m. Nanovic imposed the deadly weapon enhancement provision in imposing the sentence.