A Carbon County man was told he faces a prison term when he is sentenced after pleading guilty on Tuesday in the county court to a drug-selling charge. He also admitted to assaulting his wife in another case.

John Tristian Urso III, 39, of Lansford, appeared before Judge Joseph J. Matika to enter a plea of possession with intent to deliver a controlled substance and one count of simple assault.

On the drug charge Matika told Urso, under state sentencing guidelines, he faces a standard range, minimum prison term of somewhere between 12 and 18 months up to seven years.

Urso was charged on the drug count following an incident on June 18 when police responded to his home along West Ridge Street to a domestic incident. On scene officers learned that Urso had assaulted his wife, who required medical treatment at St. Luke’s Miners Campus in Coaldale.

While at the scene investigating the assault, officers observed various drug and drug-related items in plain view. A search warrant was obtained and methamphetamine was found.

Urso is currently an inmate in the county prison on petition filed by the adult probation office for violating his probation on another matter.

Matika deferred sentencing and ordered the probation office to prepare a presentence investigation report.