BEDFORD — A Uniontown man will serve a state prison sentence after pleading guilty to felony kidnap in Bedford County court Tuesday afternoon.

Calvin Jay Huffman, 38, also pleaded guilty to felony attempted theft in the case where he kidnapped a Woodbury Township man who offered to help Huffman push his crashed vehicle off a guide rail in mid-April. Huffman forced the victim to drive him to the Everett Sheetz, where he attacked several more people and attempted to steal different vehicles, according to court documents.

In a separate case, Huffman pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of simple assault. That charge stems from an altercation between Huffman and his cellmate on April 24.

Court documents state that police responded to the altercation at the Bedford County Correctional Facility, where Huffman told them he left his cell to get a tablet from his cellmate. Huffman said he heard his cellmate say he was going to beat him up, so Huffman punched him first “in self-defense.”

Prison surveillance video shows Huffman striking his cellmate in the face with a closed fist, which resulted in a suspected broken jaw, a laceration above his right eye and several missing bottom teeth, court documents state.

In exchange for his guilty pleas in the two cases, other charges against Huffman in the kidnapping case were dropped. Those charges included two felony charges of attempted robbery, a felony charge of robbery, two misdemeanor charges of simple assault, misdemeanor charges of false identification, theft and unlawful restraint and six summary charges of harassment.

In addition, charges of aggravated assault and assault by a prisoner were dropped in the prison assault case.

The plea agreement calls for Huffman to serve a state prison sentence of between two and four years. Unable to post the $400,000 bail in the first case and $200,000 in the second case, Huffman was returned to the Bedford County Correctional Facility.

Huffman’s Allegheny County attorney Charles Phillip Hoebler requested that sentencing take place immediately after the plea was accepted as both Huffman, who is from Fayette County, and himself are from out of town.

President Judge Travis Livengood ultimately denied the request, stating that the victims in the cases were only told that plea court would be taking place, not sentencing, and that they might be upset if they didn’t get the chance to appear for Huffman’s sentencing.

Huffman’s sentencing is set for Aug. 30. Livengood told Hoebler that, if needed, sentencing could take place over video call.

Mirror Staff Writer Rachel Foor is at 814-946-7458.