The Newtown Bee
NEWTOWN, Conn. — State police report that on the night of December 17, while two state Department of Correction officers were attempting to place Garner Correctional Institution inmate John Raymond Whittier, 39, in handcuffs at the high-security prison, Whittier assaulted both correction officers.
Both correction officers - a 30-year-old female and a 26-yer-old male - received minor injuries, state police said.
Whittier was arrested on charges of first-degree assault on a correction employee and also on a charge of failure to submit to fingerprinting, state police said.
Whittier pleaded not guilty to the charges at his arraignment and is scheduled to return to court on January 9.
Whittier is serving a threeyear sentence in Garner on an assault conviction.
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