PARIS – A Peru man was convicted on a protection order violation Tuesday in Oxford County Superior Court.

Mark D. Penley, 35, pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor charge of violation of a protection order in a plea arrangement. A felony charge of violation of conditions of release was dismissed.

Judge Ellen Gorman sentenced Penley to 364 days in prison, all suspended, and placed him on a year’s probation.

Conditions of probation are that he have no contact with his estranged wife, and that he complete evaluation, counseling and treatment in anger management.

Penley was indicted this summer by an Oxford County grand jury on both charges for having contact with his former wife on July 11 in Rumford, despite a condition that he have no contact with her.

Rumford police initially arrested Penley on May 24 after an investigation concluded that he allegedly entered his former wife’s residence and attacked her with a knife. There had been a protection-from-abuse order in force at the time.

He was charged with violating a protective order, felony aggravated assault, felony terrorizing with a dangerous weapon, felony burglary, and obstructing the report of a crime by not allowing his victim to call police.