PORTLAND — A city man will spend nine months behind bars for his role in a police chase under an agreement that dismissed charges that put him at risk of deportation.

Rahim Faleh, 50, struck three vehicles on Allen and Forest avenues as he fled police on March 30. The chase began after police received a report that Faleh was at the school of one of his children. Faleh, who’s been described as having mental health problems, was barred from contact with his children because he had been arrested in January for threatening to kill them.

According to a police report, Faleh’s eldest child and described Faleh as suffering from severe mental health problems and subjecting the children to abuse since they left Iraq six years earlier.

On Friday, Faleh was sentenced in Cumberland County Superior Court on five of the nine charges he faced in connection with chase. He had pleaded guilty to reckless conduct, two counts of failing to stop, remain or provide information, driving to endanger and disorderly conduct.

The combination of suspended and concurrent sentences handed down by Justice Thomas Warren leads to a total of nine months of incarceration and three years of probation.

The probation conditions bar him from contact with his two eldest children, who are 18 and 17 years old, and allows contact with the younger three as allowed by the Department of Health and Human Services – prohibitions that Assistant District Attorney Kate Tierney said the oldest children agreed to. Faleh will not be allowed to have alcohol, drugs or dangerous weapons, must undergo a substance abuse evaluation and counseling as needed and must get psychological counseling as required by his probation officer.

Charges of reckless conduct, eluding an officer, operating while license suspended or revoked and violating conditions of release were dismissed. Also dismissed were domestic violence terrorizing and domestic violence assault charges from January.

During the hearing, Faleh huddled with his lawyer and an Arabic interpreter and said little to the court directly.

J.P. DeGrinney, Faleh’s court-appointed lawyer, said he was explaining that the ban on contact with his children was not necessarily a permanent ban. Warren noted that a court would not necessarily agree to a change to the probation conditions.

“I understand,” Faleh told the judge.

Faleh has some disagreements with the state about his children being in its custody and also about the facts of the January case. DeGrinney said after the hearing.

“He wants to reunify with them,” he said, “but he will obey the court order.”

In March, police responded to a report that Faleh was on the school grounds of one of his children. According to police, Faleh was driving on Allen Avenue and fled as they turned to approach him. Police said Faleh hit two moving cars and then a box truck, which rolled onto its side and went off the road. The truck driver and Faleh suffered minor injuries. A busy portion of Forest Avenue was closed for about four hours.