An Ocean County man admitted Monday that he choked a woman until she passed out a Point Pleasant Borough home in 2022, authorities said.

Juan Santiago-Rojas, 31, of Point Pleasant Borough, pleaded guilty to attempted murder and now faces 10 years in state prison when he is sentenced, according to a statement from the Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office.

The investigation began on Aug. 22, 2022, when police responded to a Butler Avenue home and found an unconscious woman, the office said.

The woman had serious injuries to head and neck and was taken to a local hospital and then Jersey Shore University Medical Center in Neptune for treatment, officials said. She was later released.

Investigators identified Santiago-Rojas as her assailant, and on Aug. 23, 2022, they charged him with aggrav

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