Man draws jail for assault in Upper Pottsgrove domestic incident

NORRISTOWN » A Philadelphia man will be under court supervision for nearly two years after he admitted to assaulting a woman in her Upper Pottsgrove home.

Cory Lee Sutton, 39, of the unit block of Broad Street, was sentenced in Montgomery County Court to 11½ to 23 months in the county jail after he pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of simple assault in connection with the December 2019 incident at a home along Brynne Lane in Upper Pottsgrove. Sutton will receive credit for all time he spent in jail after his arrest and while awaiting court action, according to the sentence.

Judge Thomas C. Branca imposed the sentence as part of a plea agreement.

Other charges of burglary, criminal trespass, harassment and disorderly conduct were dismissed against Sutton as part of the plea agreement.

The judge ordered Sutton

to comply with a current protection from abuse order that is in place, according to court papers.

The investigation began about 11:20 p.m. Dec. 1, 2019, when Upper Pottsgrove police responded to a residence in the 1600 block of Brynne Lane for a domestic-related incident.

“(The victim) told me that she heard someone walking through the house and she went to her bedroom door. She told me that she was surprised to see Cory Sutton coming through the bedroom door entrance,” Upper Pottsgrove Police Officer Quinn Gauger alleged in the arrest affidavit. “She did not give him permission to come into her residence…”

The woman told police that when she spotted Sutton she put her hands up in a defensive posture and that Sutton then pushed her into a bathroom, choked her and “took her to the ground and was over top of her,” according to the criminal complaint.