On the day his trial was to start this week, a 56-year-old Batavia man accused of menacing a police officer instead entered a guilty plea to one of the two counts against him.
Bill Thomas, of State Street, was arrested in March after an early morning standoff with the Emergency Response Team.
He pled guilty today to criminal possession of a weapon, 3rd, a Class D felony, satisfying both counts returned against him by a grand jury.
There is no condition on sentencing. The maximum possible penalty is two and a third to seven years in prison.
Sentencing is scheduled for 1:30 p.m., Nov. 15.
He is being held in the Genesee County Jail.
