WARREN — A Masury man pleaded guilty and was sentenced last week on two counts of aggravated assault following an Aug. 30 incident in Weathersfield.

Michael S. Houser, 31, of North Stateline Road, was sentenced to 18 months in prison, which was the sentence jointly recommended by the prosecutor and his attorney, according to the Trumbull County Prosecutor’s Office. A charge of attempted murder was dropped in exchange for his guilty plea.

According to a police report, officers were called early Dec. 11 to the 2800 block of Covington Avenue by U.S. marshals who found Houser — who was wanted on a warrant for attempted murder — sleeping in a van on the property, which they had been monitoring for several weeks. Also sleeping in the driver’s seat was Shawna Simpson, who was arrested on a warrant for felonious assault stemming from the same Aug. 30 incident.

In that incident at 2200 N. Glenwood Ave., police were told by a group of people that while they were on the trails in Honda Hills, which is behind the McKinley Lanes bowling alley, two of them were assaulted by Houser and Simpson, according to a police report. One of the victims was involved in an altercation with Houser the previous day when Houser was accused of assaulting the man and stealing items from his vehicle.

In the Aug. 30 incident, the man asked Houser where his stuff was, which led to a physical altercation, the police report states. The man told police he felt his neck being cut with a sharp object. Police noted in the report the victim had two cuts on his throat and one large cut on the back of his neck.

The other people in the group told police Houser was holding the second victim on the ground while Simpson was hitting him with a metal pipe. The police report states both victims had serious head wounds and were bleeding heavily, and both were taken to the hospital.

Simpson, 34, of North Road in Niles, was indicted in October on two counts of felonious assault. Court records show she pleaded guilty in April to a lesser charge of aggravated assault and she was sentenced June 10 to five years of supervised probation.