By Sofia Montoya-Deck
The Capital
JESSUP, Md. — Police charged two inmates at Jessup Correctional Institution with assault after they were accused of throwing or spraying substances that smelled like feces at correctional officers in separate incidents.
Delvonte Elmore, 31, and Antonio Mackey, 23, both from Cumberland, were charged Oct. 2 in connection with separate incidents at the maximum-security prison in Jessup, one on June 26 and the other on Aug. 5 . Court filings say both men were transferred to a different maximum-security prison, as of the day they were charged.
Charging documents say that on June 26 at around 10:30 a.m., a correctional officer arrived to deliver lunch to Elmore’s cell. When the officer opened the cell’s food slot, Elmore allegedly threw an unknown liquid substance at the officer, which landed on the officer’s head, face and body, documents say.
The officer stated the liquid smelled like feces, according to charging documents.
Because the cell was too far from a security camera, the substance was not visible on video, according to court filings. Police said the footage shows the officer opening the cell’s food slot and abruptly jumping away.
On Aug. 5, around 5:15 p.m., four correctional officers were handing out food trays to inmates when Mackey sprayed an unknown liquid that smelled like feces at the officers, charging documents allege.
One officer told police he saw a “brown liquid” being sprayed from a bottle inside the cell. The officer said the liquid smelled like urine mixed with feces, charging documents say.
Another officer said the liquid that landed on his face, shoulder and hand was “yellowish in color.”
The documents say Mackey’s cell door had a hole in the plastic portion of his food slot that had been burned through by an inmate. An officer observed that after Mackey was given his food tray, he placed a spray bottle in the hole and sprayed the officers, filings say.
Police said that although video surveillance quality was poor, footage from the time of the assault shows an apparent liquid coming from Mackey’s cell as the officers abruptly back away.
Elmore and Mackey were each charged with second-degree assault, second-degree assault of a Department of Corrections employee and causing a prison employee to come into contact with bodily fluid, according to court records.
Court records did not list attorneys for either Elmore or Mackey as of Wednesday morning.
Under Maryland law, incarcerated people may not maliciously cause a correctional facility employee to come into contact with seminal fluid, urine, feces or, in some cases, blood.
The misdemeanor of causing a prison employee to come into contact with bodily fluid carries a maximum penalty of 10 years, a fine of $2,500 or both. Any sentence imposed must be consecutive to any previous sentences being served, Maryland law states.
Elmore and Mackey have preliminary hearings scheduled for Nov. 2 , according to court records.
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