CHICORA — A man accused of sexually assaulting a woman in July at her home in Washington Township waived his preliminary hearing Tuesday in exchange for prosecutors dropping the most serious charges.

Robert R. Gladd, 51, of Buffalo Township now faces only a misdemeanor charge of indecent assault.

State police also had originally charged Gladd with aggravated indecent assault, sexual assault and intimidation of witnesses or victims, all felonies.

The alleged victim told investigators that she invited Gladd to a get-together with her husband July 2 at the couple’s home.

She said they all ate, drank and lit fireworks that night before she and her husband went to bed. Gladd stayed overnight on the couch, according to court documents.

The Butler Eagle is not identifying the accuser due to the nature of the charges.

She and Gladd knew each other before the suspected assault.

On the morning of July 3, after her husband had left for work, the woman said she and Gladd drank a large amount of beer before she went to her bed to take a nap.

But a short time later, documents said, she awoke to find Gladd naked and sexually assaulting her.

She told police that she screamed and kicked him and told him to leave.

He left but on July 4 he called the woman’s home and left two threatening messages on her telephone answering machine after she reported him to police, investigators said.

Gladd on Tuesday gave up his right to a preliminary hearing at the office of District Judge Lewis Stoughton in Chicora after prosecutor Russ Karl, a county assistant district attorney, agreed to withdraw most of the case.

Karl declined to comment on his decision. Not surprisingly, defense attorney Al Lindsay was pleased.

“When you consider all the facts and circumstances of this case,” he said, “this is a fitting result.”

Gladd, who has been in the Butler County Prison on $50,000 bail, now is closer to being a free man too.

But before he is to be released Thursday, according to a bail condition imposed by Stoughton, he must report for a Secure Continuous Remote Alcohol Monitor ankle bracelet.

The tamper-resistant device is strapped to an offender’s ankle and analyzes the wearer’s perspiration to determine whether the person has been drinking.

Lindsay told his client that should he drink any alcohol while on out on bail, he would be returned to the prison.