Former PA District Attorney Sentenced In Domestic Violence Case

SOMERSET COUNTY, PA —Former Somerset County District Attorney Jeffrey Thomas has pleaded no contest in a domestic violence case involving the 2021 assault of his wife .

Thomas entered the plea on Tuesday, according to Pennsylvania Attorney General Michelle Henry's office. The no contest plea has the same legal effect as a guilty plea.

Thomas was sentenced to two years of probation following an investigation by Henry's office indicating Thomas repeatedly punched his wife in the head. That incident occurred in a vehicle in Johnstown, Cambria County.

The probation term will run concurrently to the prison term of up two seven years that Thomas received last year following his conviction on charges related to the September 2021 attack of a Windber woman.

Thomas, 38, was convicted of indecent assault, strangulation,simple assault, unlawful restraint, false imprisonment, and criminal trespass. In addition to his prison sentence, he will be required to register his whereabouts with police as a sex offender for 15 years.