(Aug. 10, 2017) A former island man has agreed to stay away from Nantucket for two years as part of a plea agreement with prosecutors stemming from a string of bizarre behavior in March and April that culminated with charges being filed against him for harassment of a local couple from whom he once rented a room.

Andrew Schaeffer, 38, formerly of Nantucket, admitted to sufficient facts to warrant a guilty finding on April 11 charges of misdemeanor breaking and entering, violating a harassment-prevention order and two counts of threatening to commit a crime.

The charges will be continued without finding for two years and Schaeffer will have a six-month jail sentence suspended for the duration of that time on the condition he stay out of further legal trouble. He also agreed to not come back to Nantucket during that time or face imprisonment, to submit to a mental-health evaluation, report to the Nantucket probation department two times a month and stay away from and have no contact with the alleged victims in the case. His publicly appointed attorney said he was going to move to Pennsylvania to live with his parents.

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