The knife-wielding Bristol man who tried to attack a federal security officer outside the federal courthouse in Philadelphia in January of 2023 has pled guilty to assault, authorities said late last week.
Anthony Lombardo, 46, who was shot twice in the chest after he lunged at a courthouse security officer could be spending up to eight years in prison, according to federal statutes and a prior criminal conviction in Bucks County.
Federal authorities said Lombardo parked in front of the federal courthouse on the east side of 7th Street between Market and Arch Streets- an unauthorized area – on January 17, 2023, and when a security officer approached the vehicle Lombardo got out of the van with a large knife in his hand. Investigators said Lombardo then approached the officer who pulled out his service weapon and opened fire wounding him, the federal filing said. Lombardo then began pulling out an unknown object from his sleeve, according to officials. The officer opened fire again, shooting Lombardo a second time, authorities said.
Lombardo was then provided medical aid by the officer, authorities said.
The Eastern District U.S. Attorney’s office later that day charged him with attempting to murder and forcibly assault, intimidate, and interfere with a federal law enforcement officer.
Prior to the January 2023 incident, Lower Bucks Source reported on Lombardo’s penchant for cutting his neighbors cable wires repeatedly. He was charged with three felony counts of criminal mischief-tampering with property and three felony counts for theft of services, court records show. Those then “active cases” no longer exist as criminal cases in Bucks County.
Sources distinctly familiar with Lombardo said, his motivation for the cable wire cutting stems from a long battle with a serious and persistent behavioral health condition. Multiple community sources contacted Lower Bucks Source after his April 2021 arrest to say Lombardo does have a long history of mental health issues and those challenges were the real reason he pursued cutting any and all cable wires near his Pearl Street home in Bristol Borough.
Ronald H. Elgart, Esq., Lombardo’s attorney for the now apparently erased Bristol Borough cases said in January of 2023 as investigators searched for rhyme or reason as to why he went after a security guard outside the courthouse, his “problems” had to be a contributing factor.
Lombardo spent a significant amount of time under medical care for two gunshot wounds, sources told LBS late last year.
In 2007 he plead guilty to aggravated assault, and criminal homicide in Bucks County Court of Pleas and was sentenced serve up to four years in state prison.
Lombardo is said to been wearing makeshift body armor underneath his clothing when he was shot, federal court paperwork says. He is scheduled to be sentenced on August 19 at the U.S. Federal Courthouse in Philadelphia where the original attack took place, said Carrie Adamowski, U.S Attorney’s Office Spokeswoman.
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