Canaan man to plead guilty to assault and threatening

Published: 01-10-2024 7:47 PM

NORTH HAVERHILL — A Canaan man who has been held in detention since last year when he was charged with assaulting the occupants of a Lebanon apartment is scheduled to plead guilty during a plea and sentencing hearing in Grafton Superior Court scheduled for Friday.

Riely Mavilla, 23, was charged with three felony counts and 11 misdemeanor counts after allegedly stabbing a 49-year-old man and 44-year-old woman who were known to him at an apartment on Parkhurst Avenue in Lebanon last year.Mavilla has agreed to plead guilty to first-degree assault and criminal threatening — both felonies — and a misdemeanor count of simple assault, according to state court records.

All other charges will be dismissed.

Mavilla has been held in detention since he was arrested and charged in March 2023, time which will be credited toward his prison sentence, court documents show.

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