NORWICH – Indicted with several violent felonies, including two counts of robbery, a gang assault and an assault, Landon T. Cummings pleaded guilty Friday to a single count misdemeanor assault, claiming his friends, not him, had lured the victim into a violent ambush, stealing the victim’s valuables and leaving him semi-unconscious beneath a car with a fractured eye socket and a number of his teeth knocked out.

He agreed to testify against his friends and received a plea agreement that will allow him to plead to misdemeanor assault, serving only sixty days in jail, three years probation and 16 hours community service. He will have to pay restitution for medical expenses and other losses.

In an earlier proceeding District Attorney Michael Ferrarese said the case was a robbery that involve a drug deal gone wrong. The DA also said Cummings was the last of the co-defendants to get involved with the crime on the night it took place.

“I – my friends had the idea to go there and get the pot from [the victim] and I was dumb enough to go along,” said Cummings in court.

The co-defendant Cummings claimed planned the attack, Jade T. Orlando, will be in court Monday to decide if she will accept a similar plea deal offered by the district attorney's office in exchange for her cooperation.