Prosecutors may drop rape charges after a Gary man admitted instead to confining two adult relatives in a home.

Sheldon Williams, 36, aka Thomas West, of Gary and formerly of Calumet Park, Illinois, pleaded guilty Sept. 5 to two counts of criminal confinement, court records show.

If Judge Natalie Bokota accepts, he would serve a split sentence.

The deal calls for two years in the Department of Correction, then 228 days in the Lake County Jail before transitioning to the Lake County Community Corrections program for about 500 days.

He would also serve two years on probation.

Williams is required to undergo substance abuse treatment.

Prosecutors would dismiss two rape counts, two counts of intimidation, and one count each of criminal confinement and strangulation.

His sentencing is scheduled Oct. 2.

Gary Police responded on April 14 to a home in the city’s Midtown section where they heard a woman yelling and her male relative was down the street.

A man named “Cash” assaulted them, the victims stated in court records.

The victims told police West was drinking at the house that day. He left for a while, then went back for his glasses.

West went into a bedroom, shut the lights, took off his pants and asked the male victim if he wanted to make $500, the affidavit states. The man refused, then Cash threatened to kill him and forced him to perform a sex act.

He then went into the man’s female relative’s room, records state. The man ran out and called the police.

The female victim later told police that West earlier asked if she “wanted to make $100” for performing a sex act. She declined.

When he went into her room, he choked her, pinned her on the bed, then forced her to perform a sex act. Court records state that he told her to stop screaming, or the cops would find her “dead body.”

“You gonna do what … I say,” he told her.

As police arrived, he said to tell them they were “just playing around,” the affidavit alleges.

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