Havre de Grace Murder: Girlfriend Pleads Guilty

HARFORD COUNTY, MD — A Bel Air woman pleaded guilty to second-degree murder this week in the 2017 death of a man in Havre de Grace. He was her boyfriend.

Aubri Grace Pluhar, 23, of the 800 block of Lancaster Drive in Bel Air, will be sentenced in January.

Pluhar has been held without bail since August 2017 on charges of second-degree murder, first-degree assault and reckless endangerment. She was indicted on first and second-degree murder charges and wearing and carrying a dangerous weapon with intent to injure in September 2017, court records show.

She entered the guilty plea for the second-degree murder charge in Harford County Circuit Court Tuesday, Dec. 10, according to court records.

Pluhar's charges stemmed from a domestic incident that resulted in the death of 20-year-old Andrew Pizanis, police said.

He was bleeding and vomiting when officers were called to the 800 block of Lafayette Street in Havre de Grace for a suspicious circumstance after 3 a.m. on July 20, 2017, police reported.

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Pizanis had been stabbed by Pluhar, who was his girlfriend, Corporal Daniel Petz of the Havre de Grace Police Department said at the time.

Arriving officers saw "large amounts of blood" and provided first aid before Pizanis was taken to Harford Memorial Hospital, where officials said he was pronounced deceased.

He died that day, and according to The Aegis, investigators learned from neighbors that the two had been audibly arguing in the hours before the stabbing.

The Office of the Chief Medical Examiner determined that Pizanis died by homicide.

A sentencing hearing for Pluhar is scheduled for Jan. 31, 2020.

The maximum sentence for second-degree murder is 40 years, according to the 2019 Maryland State Commission on Criminal Sentencing Policy.