Pa. man gets prison term for attack on police

JEANNETTE, Pa. (AP) — A western Pennsylvania man found not guilty of beating his very intoxicated fiancée with a frying pan, will still spend 20 to 60 months in prison for trespassing and fighting with an officer who arrested him.

Westmoreland County prosecutors charged 56-year-old Timothy Lenhart with attacking Jennifer Hix on July 10, 2010.

About a year before that incident, Lenhart was also acquitted of poking out Hix’s eye with an umbrella — and he avoided conviction in the frying pan attack because Hix testified at his November trial that she couldn’t remember the beating. Authorities say her blood-alcohol content when attacked was more than six times the state’s legal limit.

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reports today that Judge Alfred Bell called Lenhart “an ongoing danger to the community and himself” in handing down the sentence.