By Casey Grove
Anchorage Daily News
ANCHORAGE, Alaska — An Anchorage inmate serving what is essentially life in prison for killing two men in 2009 had more time tacked on Wednesday for severely beating a corrections officer in 2012.
A jury convicted James Coven, 27, on two counts of murder for the deaths of Christon Lee and Matthew Peterson, both 19, in a drug deal gone wrong, and a judge later sentenced Coven to 199 years in prison.
While he was held at Anchorage Correctional Complex, Coven attacked a corrections officer who would not allow him to use a phone and had ordered Coven back to his jail cell, Deputy District Attorney Clint Campion wrote in a statement.
“Coven’s assault caused multiple fractures to the officer’s jaw, a fractured nose, multiple broken teeth, and a concussion,” Campion wrote.
Full story: Already serving 199 years, inmate gets 19 more for assault on guard