Thursday, January 13, 2011
Hazelton Inmates Receive Additional Sentences
WEST VIRGINIA....
Thirty-six year old Aaron Thomas, an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary at Hazelton will serve an additional nine years for assaulting and threatening to kill a corrections officer. Federal prosecutors say he assaulted a guard in January 2010. U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II said Thursday that three other Hazelton inmates were sentenced this week to an extra year for possessing homemade weapons in 2010, and another inmate received an additional nine months for assaulting a corrections officer in November 2009.
Thirty-six year old Aaron Thomas, an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary at Hazelton will serve an additional nine years for assaulting and threatening to kill a corrections officer. Federal prosecutors say he assaulted a guard in January 2010. U.S. Attorney William J. Ihlenfeld II said Thursday that three other Hazelton inmates were sentenced this week to an extra year for possessing homemade weapons in 2010, and another inmate received an additional nine months for assaulting a corrections officer in November 2009.