By Deanne Johnson
The Review
LISBON — The man accused of assaulting a corrections officer at the Columbiana County Jail last week, Alex D.M. Cook, 19, Crestview Road, New Waterford, agreed to waive his right to a preliminary hearing in Columbiana County Municipal Court on Monday.
He will be bound over on a fifth-degree felony charge of assault to county Common Pleas Court where he already faces additional charges on unrelated matters.
Court documents state the corrections officer, Anthony Travers, lost consciousness when he was choked by Cook late on March 16, shortly before midnight. Travers had opened Cook’s cell, reportedly to give him a roll of toilet paper.
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