A 29-year-old Garden Grove man pleaded guilty Thursday and was immediately sentenced to five years in prison for breaking into a friend’s home and attacking her with a knife.
Anh Duy Phan pleaded guilty to a felony count of burglary with a sentencing enhancement for committing a felony while armed with a weapon.
As part of the plea deal, charges of attempted murder, false imprisonment, criminal threats and assault with a deadly weapon were dismissed. Phan was given credit for 944 days behind bars awaiting resolution of his case.
Officers were dispatched at 1:22 p.m. July 12, 2023, to a residence at 12532 Lorna St. regarding the attack, police said.
The prosecution said in court papers that Phan broke into the friend’s house, woke her up and then argued about him being there. When she tried to leave, he “repeatedly struck her with the knife in his hand,” prosecutors said.
The victim sustained cuts to her face and arms as she tried to fend him off, prosecutors said.
The two had been friends for about two years, defense attorneys said in court papers.