A Lehighton man entered guilty pleas on Monday in seven pending cases and is also facing charges in the death of an infant child.

Anthony Hannibal Pudvah, 31, appeared before Judge Steven R. Serfass to enter pleas in the seven cases.

He is also one of four defendants charged in the fentanyl death of a Nesquehoning toddler earlier this year.

State Police at Lehighton charged Pudvah, his girlfriend, Rebecca Lynn Walck, 21; Gage Joshua Duch, 27; and Britney Grace Burke, 31, both of Lehighton, with involuntary manslaughter, endangering the welfare of children and possession of drugs. Duch also faces an additional charge of tampering with physical evidence in the Feb. 11 death of his 3-year-old son James.

According to affidavits filed by state police, the parents of the child are Burke and Duch, and the family lived at 121 S. Allen St. in Nesquehoning at the time of the incident. Walck and Pudvah also lived in the apartment and provided child care to the child on the day of his death. That case is still pending.

On Monday Pudvah pleaded to accidents involving damage to attended vehicle/property for an incident on Sept. 3, 2018, in Lehighton; theft for an incident on March 22, 2019, at the Walmart in Mahoning Township; two counts of retail theft for incidents at the Walmart store on April 15 and 18, 2019; driving under the influence on March 17, 2018, along Mill Road by Mahoning Township police; and disorderly conduct for an incident on April 4, 2019, in Lehighton along Bridge Street. In that case drug charges were dropped in a plea bargain with the district attorney’s office. Walck was also charged in that case.

Serfass accepted the pleas but deferred sentencing due to other pending charges against Pudvah.