By Liz Evans Scolforo
York Dispatch
YORK, Pa. — A York County Prison inmate who tried to squirt a foul brew of feces, urine and water at corrections officers has been sentenced to more prison time, although the guards he tried to “gas” might consider that more of a punishment for them.
Peter Sanchez-Santiago, 36, of York City, appeared in York County Court on Tuesday, where Common Pleas Judge Richard K. Renn sentenced him to 27 to 60 months in prison, with credit for time served, according to court records.
State police said Sanchez-Santiago had also tucked three shanks under his genitals. Jurors in June found him guilty of aggravated harassment by a prisoner, which is a third-degree felony. But they acquitted Sanchez-Santiago of being a prisoner in illegal possession of weapons or implements of escape.
Deputy prosecutor Jeff Rigby, who tried the case, has said that’s likely because prison officials disposed of the homemade weapons, also called shivs, before a decision was made to file charges. That meant jurors didn’t get to see the weapons, or even photos of them, he said.
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