Lima Ohio
LIMA — A corrections officer working at the Allen County Jail was assaulted by an inmate Tuesday afternoon.
A female inmate, Jodi L. Garber, 31, from Lima, spit on and bit Lisa M. Horton, a corrections officer for the Allen County Jail. Allen County Sheriff Sam Crish said the incident happened at 4:55 p.m. Tuesday at the jail.
Horton was trying to adjust Garber in a restraint chair, when Garber started spitting on Horton and yelling.
“She noticed that her lap belt came loose in the restraint chair, so she leaned over to tighten up the lap belt, and the inmate started spitting on her and yelling that she had AIDS,” Crish said Wednesday.
To stop the spitting, Horton then attempted to cover Garber’s mouth with her right hand, when Garber bit it.
“So she bit her and then she tried to bite her again,” Crish said. “She ended up putting a spit mask on her, and that kind of made the problem stop.”
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