BROOKFIELD TOWNSHIP, Ohio - A Brookfield man plead guilty to charges for stabbing a man several times earlier this year. 

Travis Serotko, 32 plead guilty before Judge Ronald J. Rice in Trumbull County Court to a second-degree felonious assault charge after police say he stabbed a man 12 to 17 times in the back at a home in Brookfield on August 4th. 

The plea offset a jury trial that was scheduled to start December 18th. 

Serotko will be sentenced after he undergoes a background investigation conducted by probation officers.