A Barnesville man who threatened to kill a Mahanoy City woman and her young daughter has agreed to drop his quest to have aggravated assault and related charges dropped.

President Judge William E. Baldwin on March 15 accepted Jed W. Dubuc's request to withdraw his petition.Dubuc, 25, remains free on $75,000 bail.Two felony charges of attempted criminal homicide were dropped before a preliminary hearing in November.Dubuc still faces the four felony counts of aggravated assault, in addition to six misdemeanor counts of simple assault, two misdemeanor counts each of recklessly endangering another person and terroristic threats and one misdemeanor count each of possessing instruments of crime, crimes committed with firearms, resisting arrest and possession of drug paraphernalia.Dubuc's lawyer, Frederick J. Fanelli, on Jan. 15 asked Baldwin to drop the charges.Police say Dubuc threatened to shoot his girlfriend during an altercation at their home on Sept. 1, 2015. He had a loaded 9 mm Ruger handgun in his waistband when police took him into custody in the house.The victim told police Dubuc had choked her and threw her against closet doors after she told him she wanted him out of the house because he was trying to buy drugs.He grabbed the gun from a nightstand and threatened to shoot himself. Then he grabbed the victim and held the gun to her head.When her 6-year-old daughter came into the room, Dubuc pointed the gun at her and told her to get out.When the little girl cried, Dubuc told her to stop crying, "or I'll shoot your mom," police said.The case took a twist in October, when Judge James P. Goodman rescinded Dubuc's bail reduction, from $75,000 straight cash to $50,000 percentage, after he decided prosecutors had misled him in the reduction request.At an Oct. 16, 2015, hearing on the matter, District Attorney Christine Holman testified she hadn't called the victim or police to make sure they agreed before telling her assistant to go ahead and sign a paper asking Goodman to reduce Dubuc's bail.As a result, Dubuc was let out."Did I make a mistake? Yes," Holman testified. "I take full responsibility."Holman described the situation as a "miscommunication" between her and Deputy Assistant District Attorney John T. Fegley.Dubuc was sent back behind bars, but posted bail shortly thereafter.