By C1 Staff
GALLATIN COUNTY, Mt. — Inmates from the Gallatin County Jail are facing multiple felonies after they attacked a detention officer during a failed escape attempt.
The Bozeman Daily Chronicle reports that Jordan Alexander Crooked Foot and Jeffrey Allen Daems were both charged with felony counts of assault on a peace officer and escape.
In a report, Officer Abram Evans said that he was letting inmates out of the rec area when Crooked Foot threw a water bottle at him. Crooked Foot then charged him. Evans was tackled to the ground, with Crooked Foot on top of him; Evans was able to get Crooked Foot off of him and to incapacitate him with an ECD.
The incident was captured on surveillance footage. The video also shows Daem grabbing Evans from behind and helping Crooked Foot take the officer to the ground.
Multiple inmates told investigators that both Crooked Foot and Daems were planning on escaping and had tried to recruit other inmates to help them.
Crooked Foot said he “just got tired of being here,” when asked about the incident. He claimed he didn’t throw a water bottle nor did he plan the attack, but that when he attacked Evans he was trying to “take him down and get him to the point where I had leverage over him.”
Crooked Foot said he might have killed Evans, and if he had done so, “it wouldn’t necessarily have been a bad thing.” He claimed to be suicidal and said he needed to kill Evans to uphold his reputation.
Daems initially claimed he was attempting to break up the fight between Crooked Foot and Evans, saying he was initially surprised by Crooked Foot’s attack. Later he confessed that it was part of a plan to escape.
Evans was not seriously injured in the attack other than a scrape on his knee and a sore back.
Crooked Foot is serving time for raping a 15-year-old girl. Daems is serving time on felony charges of criminal endangerment and burglary.