Salem News
LISBON — A New Waterford man accused in an attack of a corrections officer at the county jail over the weekend appeared Tuesday in Columbiana County Municipal Court.
A March 25 preliminary hearing was set for Alex Cook, 19, Crestview Road, New Waterford, charged with assault of a corrections officer, a fifth degree felony.
According to court documents, while incarcerated in the county jail on Saturday, Cook asked a corrections officer, Anthony Travers, for a roll of toilet paper. When Travers opened the cell door Cook reportedly grabbed Travers’ radio communications device and threw it.
Travers tried to restrain Cook, but Cook got behind him and choked him until he lost consciousness. Sgt. Bryant Douglas, a supervisor at the jail, reportedly found Cook in the act of choking Travers.
In an additional case in Municipal Court on Tuesday, Cook was sentenced to 90 days in jail for underage consumption. He is to begin serving time on that charge immediately.
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