By C1 Staff
YORK COUNTY — A York County Prison inmate has been charged with terroristic threats against correctional officers.
The York Dispatch reports that 5-foot-5, 120-pound Elvin Rafale Mateo Jr. is accused of threatening nine correctional officers and one prison nurse a total of 11 times between April 2014 and Feb. 20.
He used racial epithets and made repeated threats to beat, shoot and kill correctional officers.
He also said he would commit violent, degrading sexual acts against the guards’ family members.
Warden Mary Sabol said that threats were taken seriously.
“It does happen frequently, but not to the extent it has with Mateo,” she said. “Do we charge everybody criminally who makes comments? No. There have to be excessive comments.”
She described Mateo’s campaign of threats as unusual, unsettling, and “ongoing, deliberate antagonism.”
Sabol has recommended to the prison board that all officers who work in the prison’s “special units” wear cameras for their own protection.
Mateo is currently being held in a behavioral adjustment unit. He is locked up on charges including multiple counts of receiving stolen property and being a convicted felon in possession of a firearm.