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Inmate charged with stabbing CO

Left CO with facial wounds that required stitches

By C1 Staff

SCRANTON — A Wayne County prisoner was indicted by a federal grand jury for assaulting a corrections officer with a dangerous weapon.

Jose Montalban, an inmate at the U.S. Penitentiary in Canaan Twp., used a shank to stab the officer, leaving him with facial wounds that required a number ofs tictches, according to the Times-Tribune.

Montalban was also charged with possession of a prohibited object and faces an additional 20 years if convicted.